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You remind me of the global warming nuts with whom several years ago I tried to discuss the sunspot theory. The prediction at the time was that decreasing sunspot activity would reduce global temperatures. They too stuck their fingers in their ears and sneered at the magical sunspots. Events showed they were wrong. Like them do you think you get extra points for snide comments about the scientific method ?

He reminds me of a person making sense. This report is ridiculous, sunspots minimums have always occurred. These scientists are weighting in on the side of global warming, ignoring the cooling temps and trying to pretend we have invisible sunspots that only they can see. This will not warm the planet back up so they can keep gouging the tax payer, but they figure if they can BS some people enough they can yet pull off the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the Human race.

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>>>This report is ridiculous, sunspots minimums have always occurred. These scientists are weighting in on the side of global warming, ignoring the cooling temps

Pardon me but you are being hysterical with such a strawman argument. Yes sunspot minimums have always occurred, I don’t see this story saying otherwise. The question is by what mechanism they occur. Something causes them. This proposes to name that mechanism and predict the timeframe. Right or wrong we’ll see soon enough.

Malpractice in the global warming argument by Gore et al isn’t good enough reason to shut down science generally, or solar science specifically.

>>>trying to pretend we have invisible sunspots that only they can see

Good lord. If a doctor has an x-ray machine and uses it to detect a tumor, do you sneer how impossible this is because you don’t see the tumor with your naked eye. Well come to think of it maybe you would. But few would join you post-Madame Curie. The world has many international astronomers who study the sun. Again, now they know to look for this they will find and confirm the currents, or disprove it and make a splash in the journals.

>>>This will not warm the planet back up so they can keep gouging the tax payer,

How would it warm the planet? Even if correct this theory won’t turn the sunspots on or off a moment before they are ready. As to gouging the taxpayer, NASA has an interest in how the sun works. It’s people and equipment in space are vulnerable to solar effects. If we can protect billion dollar satellites and priceless astronaut lives we probably come out ahead, “gouged” taxpayer wise. If this sunspot research is costing more then a single spacesuit I’d be surprised.

Of course if you are just grasping at straws being generally opposed to government research that’s another matter. But that ship sailed with Los Alamos. Too late.