Posted on 03/08/2013 3:49:49 PM PST by Biggirl
'Something unexpected' is happening on the Sun, Nasa has warned. This year was supposed to be the year of 'solar maximum,' the peak of the 11-year sunspot cycle. But as this image reveals, solar activity is relatively low.
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This reminds me of the movie “Sunshine”.
Ummagumma, maaaaaaaaaaan.
[somebody evidently fiddled with the knobs]
The whole album is great and “Careful With That Ax, Eugene” is a classic.
;D
I was digging the Pink back in the 70s.
[yeah, I’m old]
Well there's your problem, never send a guy named Lemminkainen to do that job when you should have called Beowulf to start with.
“...that the sun is in a period of reduced output causing the the global climate to cool.”
Umm - it IS. Look at a chart that correlates temperature to sunspots. We were calling this YEARS ago. Personally, I think we are headed for a ice age. A REAL, 1 mile of ice over Seattle, Ice Age.
1. Double-tops are the rule rather than the exception. See the chart on Post #12 to see that Cycle 23 had a clear double-top. This is because the North pole and South pole flip independently, often about a year apart.
2. The second top is usually about the same size as the first, so it won't rescue a "failed" Cycle 24.
Japanese solar scientists are seeing evidence that the Sun may fail to fully flip this cycle--stuck with two South poles with the "North pole" emerging along its equator in a complex four-pole configuration. This weakened magnetic field may stay in place for 30-40 years, which theoretically also happened during the Maunder Minimum.
Bottom line is my arse is gonna be cold riding my Harley in what passes for “summer”, now.
In the 90’s, we’d already be getting ready to bring the bikes out and keep riding clear into early November.
For the last 12 years, we’re lucky if we’re on the road by June and it’s too cold at night by the end of August...and February begins our new “monsoon season”.
Months of rain until mid-June.
It sucks.
My willows, which are my personal harbingers of spring, have not even put out proto-buds, yet.
Heh heh.
My first thought but I went with Pink Floyd, just to be ultra obscure.
:D
So do I.
Every time some damnfool liberal shrieks “global warming”, I wanna slap ‘em upside the head.
:) “Dirty Black Summer “ Awesome tune.
America is using more than its fair share of the Sun.
Last year the cherry blossom peak in DC was March 20. This year they predict between March 26 and 30.
Some astrophysicist who makes a living selling very long range forecasts to commodity speculators predicted that the Earth will have a mini-ice age in the next 30 years.
I think it may have been on the radio show http://itsrainmakingtime.com/
Buy Southern farmland.
No ... at the most, I think it’s a “Maunder Minimum” type of “Little Ice Age” - of which we have historical evidence for. I would say this is a pattern that has been repeated in the past (and we do have a real example of it - i.e., the “Maunder Minimum”).
It would be better to have global warming, though - because even having a Maunder Minimum will mean mass starvation over the world. At least with Global Warming, we would be growing a lot more food for everyone!
I don't think we're heading for an Ice Age. We may be heading into a cooling trend. As I said up-thread, cooling would be bad: shortened growing seasons, more crop-damaging freezes, etc. If the price of food goes up significantly, many people in the Third World who are living on the edge will fall off the edge -- starvation, malnutrition, unable to afford decent housing or medical care because they have to spend all they have on food, etc.
The Third World will not starve quietly. They will want to come into First World countries and leach off their welfare systems, driving them into collapse. Read Camp of the Saints
It's currently looking more like a Dalton Minimum (where the sunspot figure peaked around 60 in the early 1800's, where we had "The Year Without a Summer") than a Maunder Minimum (where sunspots disappeared entirely for decades and we had the Little Ice Age).
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