Posted on 12/09/2020 6:10:34 AM PST by MtnClimber
The Sun may be in for a very busy time. According to new predictions, the next maximum in its activity cycles could be the one of the strongest we've seen.
This is in direct contradiction to the official solar weather forecast from NASA and the NOAA, but if it bears out, it could confirm a theory about solar activity cycles that scientists have been working on for years.
"Scientists have struggled to predict both the length and the strength of sunspot cycles because we lack a fundamental understanding of the mechanism that drives the cycle," said solar physicist Scott McIntosh of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research.
"If our forecast proves correct, we will have evidence that our framework for understanding the Sun's internal magnetic machine is on the right path."
The Sun's activity levels are actually quite variable, and its activity cycles are bound up with its magnetic field.
Every 11 years, the Sun's poles swap places; south becomes north and north becomes south. It's not clear what drives these cycles, but we do know that the poles switch when the magnetic field is at its weakest.
Because the Sun's magnetic field controls its activity - sunspots (temporary regions of strong magnetic fields), solar flares, and coronal mass ejections (produced by magnetic field lines snapping and reconnecting) -
I believe our favorite gas giant has cycles, too.
Note - Never look at Uranus with a high power Smelloscope!
Back when ham radio was mostly HF, this mattered to people going for DXCC and such, more sunspots meant better QRP transmission.
Grand Minima, Grand Maxima, Dalton Cycle, El Nino, La Nina, Carbon Dioxide, Mauder Minima, Freeze in the dark, Fry in the sun? Arggggh! I’m so confused!
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These people do not have enough to do. They are making work out of their phony baloney jobs.
Solar activity is directly related to success in the Supreme Court.
The Sun has Global Warming?..............🤔
The website that the story is from has a clear leftist bias. I would not take any of what appears there seriously. Here are some of the other headlines this morning:
“Damning Report Shows G20 Countries Still Pour Trillions of Dollars Into Fossil Fuels”
“’This Is Suicidal’: 2020 Is on Track to Be Second-Hottest Year on Record”
“Greenland Is Melting, And a New Model Suggests We’ve Greatly Underestimated Its Impact”
“Evidence Is In: Female Leaders Really Are Tackling The Pandemic Better”
“212 Environmental Activists And Protectors Were Killed Last Year, Report Shows”
“US Has an ‘Anti-Science Bias’ Problem, Says Fauci”
“Fauci Warned The Trump Administration of a Potential Epidemic Way Back in 2017”
“This Pandemic Might Actually Help Us Tackle Climate Change. Here’s How”
In other words... it is an alarmist website.
Back in January a few sunspots led them to predict this was starting. In August, the same prediction. Here we go again.
Good. Idle hands is the devil's workshop. We need that sun to keep plugging away.
Sunshine and Trump..bad.
They say that about every cycle.
Yeah. And only carbon produced by Republicans!
Now there's a classic truism, tautology and circular reasoning, all in one sentence.
No worries. Beijing Biden is going to get us back in The Paris Climate Accords and that, along with planeloads of OUR tax dollars, will solve the problem.
/extreme sarc
You are right about that. There could be glaciers in Miami and there would still be people preaching about global warming.
How did they determine north from south of the Sun’s poles?
It’s been studied. There is a correlation.
Could be one of the strongest since records have been kept. How long is this cycle? How long have they kept records? How many cycles have they kept records on? Which ones were strongest before?
This story is nested in three layers of maybe. Most global warming stories are 3 or 4 layers deep of maybe. If, may, could, might, maybe, would, possible, one of, among...
The Sun is the major source of the Earth’s heat. If it gives more heat, we get warmer. Most of the heat is radiated off into space at night, but some of it remains.
It’s stupid and irrational to ignore the effect of the Sun on Earth’s climate.
Predicting Sunspot activity is akin to predicting the number and pattern of bubbles in a boiling pot of water.
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