Posted on 02/15/2008 4:54:28 PM PST by TheHound
It is normal for our sun to have quiet periods between solar cycles, but we’ve seen months and months of next to nothing, and the start of Solar cycle 24 seems to have materialized (as first reported here) then abruptly disappeared.
Given the current quietness of the sun and it’s magnetic field, combined with the late start to cycle 24 with even possibly a false start, it appears that the sun has slowed it’s internal dynamo to a similar level such as was seen during the Dalton Minimum. One of the things about the Dalton Minimum was that it started with a skipped solar cycle, which also coincided with a very long solar cycle 4 from 1784-1799. The longer our current cycle 23 lasts before we see a true ramp up of cycle 24, the greater chance it seems then that cycle 24 will be a low one.
No wonder there is so much talk recently about global cooling. I certainly hope that’s wrong, because a Dalton type solar minimum would be very bad for our world economy and agriculture. NASA GISS published a release back in 2003 that agrees with the commonly accepted idea that long period trends in solar activity do affect our climate by changing the Total Solar Irradiance (TSI).
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Maybe they are with the missing honey bees?
Or...Has the sun been spotted over the Bermuda Triangle recently?
Works on so many levels.
Yea move along nothing here.
Crap, we better start burning more fossil fuels to create more greenhouse gases to trap in the heat! GO GLOBAL WARMING
The Dalton Minimum was a period of low solar activity, lasting from about 1790 to 1830. It coincided with a period of lower than average global temperatures. Low solar activity seems to be strongly correlated with global cooling.
All I hear from the democrat party and their moron “mainstream” media, is continued calls to make criticism of the GlobalWarmism hoax a crime!
Come and get me, coppers! You’ll never take me alive!
Damn - is this why I am freezing butt in Sunny California every morning? San Jose to be exact.
Before last year, this area had not seen snow capped peaks in about 30 years. Now two years in a row.
Never seen absolute cold like this for years.
Shite.
Not.
People were amazed to see them though.
Obviously, it is so cold in S.CA due to global warming.
There used to be a number of effective,low tech, inexpensive solutions to many problems....why did they a;ll get put aside?
I could be wrong then about the 30 year number....
To prove this they will pull excessively cold predictions out of their collective butts and declare man made global warming when they do not occur.
For your global warming PING LIST!
Now we know where Obama got his magnetism.....he stole it from the Sun!
There's a 21/22 year cycle of drought in North America and China. It can happen in different quadrants, but it will happen Fur Shur.
It's the cool, dry air that creates the drought ~ dries everything out.
Still, by 1990 and 1991 we had so many solar flares it was difficult to keep DEC equipment up and running inside a steel/concrete office building.
We'll know in a short time if this cycle will ever really grow.
The JOOOOOSSSSS stole them!!!
Thats why its already been revised to global climate change.
Better stock up on Ammo, Diesel, and Groceries.
It turns out the only honeybees that are really having a problem are the ones that are bred commercially, where the eggs mature in honeycomb cells that are bigger than wild honeycomb cells (the fungus or microbe that goes after them does better in the bigger cells, killing off maturing bees). Wild honeybees are not suffering this problem, only the ones people gave bigger honeycombs to produce larger bees.
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