[DEPcom]

“upcoming solar cycle could be the most active in half a century”

Yes let it be so: getting reading to upgrade my Antennas for 10 and 6 meters. Yes please please please

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Let’s have a Carrington Event party before the lights go out.

[RummyChick]

Commie John Brennan is out basically admitting there are UFOs and aliens

He would be in a position to know.

it was on some podcast with a dude named tyler

[Sans-Culotte]

So, what does it mean? Coming ice age, or global warming on steroids?

[frank ballenger]

Not enough pagans around the world have been worshipping the Sun. That may explain this.

In the Book of Isaiah it says to “remove your roof gods.” The commentary book said thousands of people used to have little stone statues of a face looking toward the Sun on their roof as a pagan ritual. Removing the little Sun gods was part of returning to proper worship of God.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Solar Cycle ping:
"The sun has begun a new 11-year cycle, and scientists have very different ideas on just how much energy will be available to fuel its eruptions."

"The consensus view of an international panel of 12 scientists calls for the new cycle, Solar Cycle 25, to be small to average,
much like its predecessor, Solar Cycle 24."

Not so ! - says disagreeing scientist.

[tired&retired]

I agree with him.

[A Navy Vet]

This will give fodder for the global warming hysterics. They never look at sun spot cycles, but only Co2 caused by humans in their inane predictions.

I'm old enough to remember the hysteria about the "Coming New Ice Age" in the 70's. They also conveniently forget the "mini ice age" before the industrial revolution.

I don't trust scientists anymore. I believe they have been politicized and rely too much on computer models to prove their preconceived hypothesis - garbage in, garbage out.

[blueunicorn6]

I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that the number of solar flares will increase or decrease or stay about the same.

[OldGoatCPO]

Oh crap, 2020 sucked, but an EMP burst from the sun in 2021 would push Corona to the back page.

This could be the big one, it’s coming Elizabeth!

😂😂😂😂😂

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

To keep up with things:

https://www.spaceweather.com/

[tired&retired]

Gyre-driven decay of the Earth’s magnetic dipole

Christopher C Finlay 1, Julien Aubert 2, Nicolas Gillet 3

PMID: 26814368 PMCID: PMC4737809 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10422

Abstract
Direct observations indicate that the magnitude of the Earth’s magnetic axial dipole has decreased over the past 175 years; it is now 9% weaker than it was in 1840. Here we show how the rate of dipole decay may be controlled by a planetary-scale gyre in the liquid metal outer core. The gyre’s meridional limbs on average transport normal polarity magnetic flux equatorward and reverse polarity flux poleward. Asymmetry in the geomagnetic field, due to the South Atlantic Anomaly, is essential to the proposed mechanism. We find that meridional flux advection accounts for the majority of the dipole decay since 1840, especially during times of rapid decline, with magnetic diffusion making an almost steady contribution generally of smaller magnitude. Based on the morphology of the present field, and the persistent nature of the gyre, the current episode of dipole decay looks set to continue, at least for the next few decades.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26814368/

[blueunicorn6]

‘Maverick Astrophysicist”?

‘Goose! Goose! Do you see any solar flares?”

‘I got one coming in out of the sun! Get him with the guns!”

[thinden]

bbb

[zeugma]

Everything you need to know about solar activity, courtesy of SolarHam.net. Very cool, for more than just Hams.