And the last three months....
Posted on 04/25/2008 5:07:18 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Yup. And apparently, it is working.
I should point out that there are TWO different types of minimums and maximums being described here. One involves the 11-year max/min of the sunspot cycle. The other, longer episodes when the sun was generally more active (or less active) for stretches at a time (several decades as opposed to 11 yrs).
It was sixty degrees yesterday. Today, it snowed over four inches. Anchorage got around eight inches of Gorbal warming.
Let's stop at the dark ages first. That's the time to go medieval on some of the GW jokers.
You should have been given the Nobel Peace Prize instead. Nothing should prevent you from taking it away from Gore.
I,m thinking one should heavily invest in
Parkas
Whale blubber
Snow shovels
Rock Salt
Sunglasses
Gloves
Boots
Snowmobiles
get in now while the basement is low.
“I do wonder how come Wooly Mammoths were found in Siberia that had been frozen with grass still in their mouths and that appear to have been otherwise healthy. “
Mammoths could have chubbed up at the foot of the mountains, then went on treks to go over the summit,and on to warmer and greener climes, and succumbed to any of several dangers in nature.
The simplest example would be a large avalanche of snow.
It would bury them, with hardly a scratch.
Yes, there was a short period several weeks ago in which there was a good number of sunspots. However, they faded away after about a week or so and were not associated with the new solar sunspot cycle (cycle 24). Based on their magnetic polarities and positions relative to solar latitude, they were determined to be associated with the old cycle (23). Overall, the sun has been extremelly quiet for a number of years now. And although a new cycle has begun it will (or should) be a few years yet before sunspot activity really picks up again. At least that's what the experts are saying.
Not only that, but they are saying that this slowdown will dramatically weaken cycle 25, resulting in significantly cooler temperatures in the 2030 timeframe. Time to gas up the SUV!
Thanks for the ping!
Thanks. I didn't actually read the article.
Time to gas up the SUV!
At $4.00 a gallon?? Who do you think I am, Al Gore or John Kerry! I don't have that kind of money. :)
Actually, I don’t think they talked about it in the article heading this thread. But here’s a really good summary with graphs:
http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/category/solar-cycle-25/
Omygaia! Declare spotted suns an endangered species! We're running out of old growth solar systems! Blame the Bush Space Program!
I have my own theories:
I wish they would make up their minds...Geez
But's you'll have to run them on reprocessed bacon grease or the stuff that McDonalds has been frying with for a week or so.
It's not like ice ages have never happened before. Or that we aren't due for a new one any century now.
It's not like ice ages have never happened before. Or that we aren't due for a new one any century now.
Ice ages typically occur about every 100,000 years, a result of 3 periodic earth orbital deviations occurring roughly at the same time. These are: slight periodic changes in the tilt angle of Earth's axis, slight periodic changes in the 'shape' of Earth's orbit (degree of its ellipse) and a slight wobble of the axis itself (this is different than angle change).
Also, if you look very carefully at the graph you posted, you'll see that temperature increases (the blue line) actually PRECEEDED CO2 increases (red line) throughout this entire interval spanning the past 400,000 years. In fact, on average, they precede them by a whopping 800 years! In other words, it looks like temperature increases *caused* the CO2 increases, not vice versa. The lefties are well aware of this problem and have offered up many lame brain explanations for it. Actually, one idea does make some sense, that being as global temperature increased (naturally) and the oceans warmed, they were less able to contain dissolved CO2 and so it was eventually released into the air (like a warm bottle of soda). The CO2/temp figures used in this graph are based on ice core data from Greenland.
...oh, speaking of lame brains, I don't think Al Gore mentions this difficulty at all in his blockbuster movie. Also, the most important greenhouse gas of all (by a long shot) is water vapor. It actually accounts for between 75-95% of the GH effect --yet another inconvenient truth Gore leaves out of his film.
...which indicates wooly mammoths either didn’t floss OR treated grass like chewing gum.
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