Posted on 07/01/2009 5:53:33 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty
"Yesterday, a sunspot emerged in the circled region, but it disappeared so fast that it did not receive an official number."
(Excerpt) Read more at spaceweather.com ...
The solar astronomers at NASA are desperate for Solar Cycle 24 to get underway. About a week ago an article ran about how plasma currents had reached a magic latitude that should jump-start sunspot production.
Today, we've now completed a seven day streak with no sunspots. That is completely typical behavior for a minimum, and possibly the beginning of another extended stretch with no spots. Also bear in mind that in the early part of the record (Maunder minimum) there were just a few small telescopes and astronomers monitoring the Sun from Europe, not many multi-meter devices scattered around the Earth along with space-based instruments. It was also only during the European day, not 24 hours as it is today. Many small solar events might have gone unnoticed due to weather, inferior equipment or just no one viewing at the right time.
As the minimum continues on towards winter, I can't help but think it's going to be even colder than '08.
No-Ho from Soho.
Its been down into the 50s at night here in southern Michigan for a few nights now. It was cold this time last year as well.
Damn that Sun's global warming!!
I bought a few tomato plants called “July the Forth” this year. Supposedly, they were is a super-early Early Girls, and would produce tomatoes in time for your Independence Day BBQ.
Well, here in NJ, it just ain’t happening. I barely have flowers on them, and the fourth is only a few days away.
Where did the Sun go? My tomatoes need sun!
Another sign of a sharp cooling ahead are an unusual double layer of high stratus clouds that have been coming and going for about a month. They are absorbing UV rays that normally heat the Earth.
I think the fascists are aware of this coming cooling which explains why they are so desperate to get this awful legislation done right now.
Shucks! and I just rented a Beach house at Prodhue Bay since the Owner said he finally had installed Air Conditioning due to the ever increasing Global Warming and Melting of the Ice cap!:-)
The term we should all be using is “Second summer of the Second Little Ice Age”; that is what’s going on. How stupid do you have to be to pass a crippling “global warming” bill in the Second Summer of the Second Little Ice Age?
I swear I’m mighty tempted to move to Alaska, except an even colder Alaska isn’t too appealing. Last winter was definitely worse than usual there, and that’s saying a lot!
I need to plan a trip up there though!
Seeing g-hosts in the sun?
“How stupid do you have to be to pass a crippling “global warming” bill in the Second Summer of the Second Little Ice Age?”
They are either stupid or malicious, you pick. ;-)
Regardless, I just hope this isn’t “Last Gasp Before the Big Ice Age”... lol
Even any changes like that will likely take centuries...though famines won’t. We need to stop converting food to fuel, there’s plenty of fuel around.
“I think the fascists are aware of this coming cooling which explains why they are so desperate to get this awful legislation done right now.”
Exactly. How can you justify an “emergency” legislative track for something that, at best, would have a 0.2 C effect in 90 YEARS??? (By the way, that effect is too small to measure, at the cost of trillions of dollars, loss of freedom, and reduced standard of living).
Little known CO2 fact: All plants, including crops, grow 30% faster than if humans handn’t ever burnt fossil fuel.
I'm afraid we've been hogging Mr. Sun here in Texas over the past month or two.
Sorry about that.
And since Mr. Rain won’t come for a meaningful visit, I’m wondering if the Cloud family could float by and park for a while.
We're getting daily visits from the Sand Monster the past few days which lowers the temperatures by blocking the sun.
Ain't it grand? :)
I think the primary effect is the spending of trillions of dollars, the loss of freedom and the reduced standard of living for the serfs. Algore's house won't use one watt-second less energy.
Darn Texans...
I tell my Texas friends that I want to move there from New Jersey, but they keep telling me about these humongous cock-a-roaches the size of turkeys and temperatures that get up to 140 in the day and down to -20 at night.
I guess I’ll just have to stay in New Jersey...
I think some of the lowest counts ever seen were from 1911-1913. And 1914 was a bear.
STAR WARMING Episode 1 - The Phantom Sunspot.
Which is consistent with laboratory experiments showing that lack of sunspots allows a higher incidence of cosmic rays, which in turn increase cloud formation.
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