Sunspots reaching 1,000-year high

BBC News ^

[TechJunkYard]

I'm sure you've noted that 6M has been jumping lately... even 10 is is doing well here in NC. Some fella in NJ had a little repeater on 53.01 in his backyard and was working a mobile in AL.

I like to tune around VHF low-band during openings like this. Heard numerous fire dispatch from the northeast, and some Mexican police (I assume) repeaters around 35.8 or so.

[ASA Vet]

Michigan doesn't count

Sadly many in Detroit, Michigan can't count.
(Detroit is anywhere East of Lowell.)

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Dang it! I KNEW I shoulda invested heavy in sunspots....

[Happy2BMe]

And it (Detroit) is also the largest concentration of Islam in the United States.

[dirtboy]

This latest analysis shows that the Sun has had a considerable influence on the global climate in the past

Wow. Nothing gets past these guys.

[Chemist_Geek]

They could forget about 6 meter aurora back in 1680...

[Chemist_Geek]

Darn! And I haven't got my 6m skyhook back up yet. Grr.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Eleventh century society burned no gasoline.

Maybe it was caused by the Normans dipping their arrows into paraffin, and setting them alight..... Seriously though, I did read somewhere where there were actually vineyards in Britain in the 11th century

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I don't know what term you use in the States for the form of lightning I described: for a start we say thunderstorm, you say electrical storm (admittedly, a more accurate description), but, it's where a streak of lightning splits several ways- making it the most dangerous kind

Of course your post to me probably refers to the fact that I did spell 'lightning' as 'lightening'- must be sunspot activity.

[SGCOS]

...Sunspots have been monitored on the Sun since 1610, shortly after the invention of the telescope

No wonder most scientists in that era only had one good eye.

[mil-vet]

...looking at the past 1,150 years the Sun has never been as active as it has been during the past 60 years.

Note the fools still attempt to tie the current slight variation in the temperature of the earth's atmosphere, which is SO CLEARLY tied to increased activity on on sun, AND which is WELL within the past millenial variations documented by REAL science, to so-called "greenhouse gasses". This in spite of the FACT that a small percentage of said gasses are due to anything mankind has done since the dawn of time (they occur naturally!).

Chicken-little panic mongers are a never-ending source of amusement!

[potlatch]

Thanks for the ping.

[Koblenz]

This latest analysis shows that the Sun has had a considerable influence on the global climate in the past

Glad that's been cleared up. I guess all those people that think the sun has no influences on global climate now having nothing to say...

[Happy2BMe]

Betcha you won't find this story on CNN, PBS, or any of the other Kyoto Agreement sympathizing media outlets.

[SunkenCiv]

from Archaeology mag's website (from the hard drive really, but with a corrected, working URL):

Wine Lover's Guide To Ancient Britain
by Angela M.H. Schuster
Volume 53 Number 2, March/April 2000

At one Northamptonshire site, the team documented remains of nearly four miles of bedding trenches that they estimate could have supported some 4,000 vines, the fruits of which would have yielded more than 2,600 gallons of wine a year. According to Meadows and Brown, the grapes were grown in the Mediterranean Roman style, that is between parallel sets of poles, a manner that has been described in detail by classical authors such as Pliny the Elder and Columella. Most of the wines the Romans produced were probably fruity, sweet, and brownish in color. The grapes would have been harvested early, before they were fully ripe, around late September. After pressing, large amounts of honey would have been added to the wine for both sweetness and to raise the alcohol content to ten or 12 percent. The wine would then have been placed in amphoras or barrels to ferment for about six months, ready for enjoyment in late winter or early spring.

The Romans liked wine and wheat to be available throughout the empire. But anyway, during the medieval warming period farmsteads rose in altitude and latitude, to levels not viable for agriculture today.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I bet those are facts the Enviro-fascists don't want to hear

[AlexW]

"Would've sucked to try to work DX on 20 meters back in 1680, it sounds like... :) "

I lived for the high sunspot years since my main interest
was chasing DX. 1958 was quite a year. I remember some nights on 15 meters when every continent was coming in like locals.

Changing the subject....
I wondered why this story had to keep with the "all man's fault" theme, then I saw it was from the BBC (junk media)

73, de W4EX