[Islander7]

The forecasters said the current solar cycle will probably end next March, when Solar Cycle 24 will begin. That will mean Cycle 23 lasted 12 years, slightly longer than the usual 11-year cycle.

[beeber]

Doomed!

[AU72]

Looks like the Sun is going to have a fever.

[massgopguy]

If you could forecast the solar cycle within a margin of error, there would be a Vegas Line on it.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Solar Cycle 24 Prediction Official Press Release

[henkster]

See? Human CO2 emissions have lengthened the sunspot cycle!

[technically right]

I say implement a cap-and-trade scheme for sunspot activity.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Gee.

After six years of increasing global warming overload and alarms, and three years of (literally!) EVERY science or environmental or weather or technology story being inherently linked to global-warming-is-a-disaster-caused-by-humans ...

Here is a sun-spot alert message that does everything BUT include global warming affects!

[Moose4]

Good. I’ll finally start being able to work some DX with a small antenna in a couple of years. It ain’t easy being a ham radio geek stuck in a small apartment during a solar minimum.

}:-)4

[NewHampshireDuo]

Synapses in Algore’s brain will get fried (moreso than they are now).

[Thrownatbirth]

That gives me time to save up for a bigger HF rig.

[rock_lobsta]

We’re all gonna FRY!!!
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[Larry Lucido]

Geez, we’re already concerned about peak oil. Now we gotta worry about peak sun too?

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

That explains the timing of the left’s big push for oppressive laws in the name of fighting “global warming”.
Soon it will be apparent that the SUN is causing the heating, but then they will already have their oppressive laws and we will be paying carbon taxes on everything from driving to breathing.

[vortigern]

The ionosphere getting all charged up is not bad thing if you’re into long distance (DX) radio communications in the HF band. Amateur Radio enthusiasts (HAMS), look forward with great anticipation to DX communications over great distances with small amounts of RF power. In past cycle peaks, I have talked to amateurs on other side of the globe (12,000 miles away) with less energy than it takes to light a small light bulb (25 watts).

[mc6809e]

Something strange is happening with the sun right now.

Circulation of plasma in sun has slowed to a record low. This flow is responsible for the length of a solar cycle. If things were normal, we’d certainly have a huge cycle coming next, but this dramatic slowing of the meridional flow is make prediction very difficult.

No one really knows what has caused the slow down and when it will get back to normal. If the circulation stops, then we may end up with another Maunder minimum, a time when solar activity nearly disappeared and the climate became much colder.

[ßuddaßudd]

I predict global cooling in 2015-2025.

[johnny7]

Coincides with the end of the Mayan calendar???

[needlenose_neely]

The Mayan calendar ends at 2012. Obviously they had advance knowledge of the sunspots ending the world in 2012.

[outofstyle]

potentially affecting airline flights, communications satellites and electrical transmissions. But forecasters can't agree on how intense it will be.

I hope that it's not as devastating as the Y2K issue was.

[Lazamataz]

The Mayan Calendar ends in 2012.