Posted on 08/13/2007 5:52:45 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
The situation is worse than we feared. SUV’s cause sunspots. We’re doomed.
The horror...
Anyone who denies that the sun is the main driving force in the weather and the climate is wrong.
Huh?
Seems like you could predict sunspots by observing the rain, but how do you get the other way round?
Here’s a great new video on comparing the solar activity cycle: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rb9jTeFcatU
“Seems like you could predict sunspots by observing the rain, but how do you get the other way round?”
Exactly my thoughts upon reading that. Thanks for posting your question. Let’s hopefully get some answers to the confusion. Must be missing something.
Scientwists figered it when viewing sunspots in rewind.
Their recent prediction of the next cycle and peak range from worst ever to biggest ever, take your pick.
Isn't sunspot activity on an approximately 11 year cycle? I wonder if this is how they can predict the rainy years.
Bingo. Now that I read it again, I find I missed a word:
unusually heavy rainfalls in East Africa over the past century preceded peak sunspot activity by about one year.
Indeed the peaks are on an 11-year cycle.
Although, if these rains happen every 11 years, doesn't seem like you should call them "unusual".
“Isn’t sunspot activity on an approximately 11 year cycle? I wonder if this is how they can predict the rainy years.”
Good point! My wife and myself have discussed the “cycles” we have come to know here in S. California. We always refer to them in ten year increments, however the “cycles” fluctuate to either nine, or as you say eleven years.
We see drought, then it rains like heck for several years, then the rain each year thereafter dissipates until we have a “cycle” of drought again, then the ninth to tenth year it rains like heck again. The “Cycles” are fairly consistant, give or take a year this way or that from the figure of ten years.
Of course a number of years ago the Leftist MSM meteorologists began trying to blame it all on “El Nino” which is a known phenomena in Peru thousands of years old, but “El Nino” is consistantly inconsistant, so I guess they drew upon the vast experience of “Pinky and the Brain” as they needed something more concrete so they developed GW./s ;)
As the article says, er uh, sun spots peak every eleven years. Some very advanced computer models have been able to determine when the year before eleven will occur.
:-)
Global Warming is unraveling faster than Clinton’s middle-class tax cut.
It's HOT & Humid in Texas in August!!
Global Warming is unraveling faster than Clinton’s middle-class tax cut.
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Ha! Good one. But really. A tax cut from a frothing Marxist like Hitlery??? Never happen. Karl Marx would cut her off...
Cute, Advanced computer models are also suspect in the GW misinformation game.
I’ll stick with historical facts.
I think it is because we can predict sunspots some years in advance, due to the Sun’s rather predictable cycle.
Yeah, reading the entire article before posting helps comprehension.
Maybe I'll start doing that. ;->
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