[Rurudyne]

Just a little rabble rousing on my part.

I'll post daily values from the above link.

Today's values are:

Flux Density Values in sfu for 22:00 on 2008:02:12

Julian Day Number : 2454509.406

Carrington Rotation Number : 2066.683

Observed Flux Density : 0072.2

Flux Density Adjusted for 1 A.U. : 0070.4

URSI Series D Flux, Adj. x 0.9 : 0063.4

As you can see, it still isn't going up.

If anyone else has other juicy links or comments to demonstrate how super serial our situation is, or even just pictures of Manbearpig, please chime in. –.^

BTW ... all fun aside, global cooling is BAD.

[Rurudyne]

The Sun on Vacation: Day 76 of the Gore-Hansen Minimum


Dated from January 4th, 2008, with confirmation of sunspot #10,981.


Thursday Update


Flux Density Values in sfu for 17:00 on 2008:03:20

Julian Day Number : 2454546.197

Carrington Rotation Number : 2068.032

Observed Flux Density : 0068.9

Flux Density Adjusted for 1 A.U. : 0068.4

URSI Series D Flux, Adj. x 0.9 : 0061.5

[SunkenCiv]

"Typically as you go through the ten or eleven year solar activity cycle you see the numbers go up or down. The lowest number is 64 or 68. The numbers 71 or 72 are very low, but they usually start to go up. We are at the end of a cycle, but the numbers still haven't gone up. We have been joking around coffee that we may be seeing the Sun about to shut down."

The Maunder Minimum pertains to sunspots, and when the sunspot numbers fall to near-zero, it gets cold on Earth. :') Thanks Rurudyne.

[Jim Noble]

We have been joking around coffee that we may be seeing the Sun about to shut down.

What a comedian. Great sense of humor!

[DungeonMaster]

Why would we measure the sun’s total emr output based on flux density rather than an integrated measurement of the actual emr?

[r9etb]

As you can see, it still isn't going up.

On the good side, low-flying satellites will last longer, because there's less drag: they don't have to expend as much propellant to maintain altitude.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

I read this a few months ago from a different source. The difference between the two was that the other source is saying that they are concerned that the Sun has not done this since the Little Ice Age. (Where they get data from then is a mystery to me.) But they believe this to be quite prolonged and will cause Worldwide crop failures and excessively long and cold Winters, with cold and wet Summers.

But in a way, I hope so. This would quell the GoreBull Warming fanatics and the Reverend Gore will be looking for a new audience who he can B.S.

[the invisib1e hand]

it’s supposed to be 95 degrees F in NYC (in the middle of July) today. What more proof do you need?