Strange Doings on the Sun

WSJ ^ | Nov. 10, 2013 7:25 p.m. ET | Robert Lee Hotz

[BenLurkin]

To complicate the riddle, the sun also is undergoing one of its oddest magnetic reversals on record.

Normally, the sun's magnetic north and south poles change polarity every 11 years or so. During a magnetic-field reversal, the sun's polar magnetic fields weaken, drop to zero, and then emerge again with the opposite polarity. As far as scientists know, the magnetic shift is notable only because it signals the peak of the solar maximum, said Douglas Biesecker at NASA's Space Environment Center.

But in this cycle, the sun's magnetic poles are out of sync, solar scientists said. The sun's north magnetic pole reversed polarity more than a year ago, so it has the same polarity as the south pole.

[Steely Tom]

Set the controls for the heart of the sun.

[Captain7seas]

This explains it :http://coldsun.net/

“Cold Sun” by John Casey
“There is no one alive who has experienced the depths and extent of the cold that will soon descend upon us!”

[cripplecreek]

Good luck surviving with no electricity and GE modified seeds.

A lot of people died but it was all part of the learning curve and fortunately we have the advantage of learning from them. They survived because they eventually figured out which crops were more appropriate to the climate. Many more would have survived if they had learned more quickly.

[spokeshave]

Is this a precursor to another Maunder Minimum situation, where the sunspot activity drops to essentially zero for decades? That could be bad news for food production, since much of the world's climate at higher latitudes may make Canada, northern Europe and much of Russia unusable for agriculture.

Like this:

and

Detailed discussion here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/09/08/the-climate-grain-production-relationship-quantified/

[MulberryDraw]

They’re puzzled by what the sun is doing but they know it won’t stop globull warming. OK...

[UCANSEE2]

Wow. Both poles are south.

A monopole?

Where did north go?

To the center of the Sun.

[Windflier]

Oh geeez.....that made me laugh out loud.

[UCANSEE2]

Based on my very elementary understanding of science — there has to be a North somewhere!

Actually, there is no such thing as North... especially on the Sun.

[Ken H]

It’s got a bad comb over.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

One of my favorite songs ever!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQj—Kjn0z8

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

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[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“Actually, there is no such thing as North... especially on the Sun. “

What does the sun peoples compasses say on them then?

[BenLurkin]

Over the mountain watching the watcher.
Breaking the darkness, waking the grapevine.

Witness the man who raves at the wall
Making the shape of his questions to Heaven

[UCANSEE2]

Our current world system can handle warming MUCH better than cooling.

Al Gore and friends know that. They want to ensure they survive. Thus, the lies.

[citizen]

Get ready to be very cold!

[BenLurkin]

Nice!

[cripplecreek]

I got snow on the ground here in southern Michigan right now.

[UCANSEE2]

Basically it has poles all over the place.

The bigger they are, the more poles they have.

[dr_lew]

The mathematical requirement is that the net magnetic flux normal to the surface is zero. The easiest way to do that is no magnetic field. The next easiest is a magnetic dipole. Beyond that you could have all kinds of chaotic configurations, as long as they “balance out”.

These magnetohydrodynamic situations are very complicated, and it is only recently that they have been understood at all, in terms of mathematical models. I guess the main thing is that it is out of the ordinary, and it would seem that Science is pretty much at a loss here, except for comparison with historical scientific experience.

[familyop]

Cool post on solar activity. Thanks.