Posted on 05/30/2008 12:46:32 PM PDT by Entrepreneur
I'm positively gleeful about the prospect of runaway global warming - anthropogenic (i.e., man caused) or otherwise. You see, we've got the solution to global warming. It's air conditioning. Eureka - the future is bright!
But what if it doesn't get warmer? What if it gets colder?
If some solar physicists are correct, the sun's magnetic activity may impact world temperature more than man-made greenhouse gases. And the sun's magnetic activity appears to be slowing.
For more than 200 years, scientists have noted a correlation between sunspots (areas of intense magnetic activity) and temperature, even if they weren't quite sure how sunspots affected climate. In 1801, the "King's Astronomer," William Herschel, noted a relationship between the number of sunspots and the price of wheat. Fewer sunspots meant colder temperatures, less wheat production, and higher prices.
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Global Warming will be masked by periods of Global Cooling lulling us into thinking that it’s all just Global Weather.
I’ve often wondered if charged ions from the sun, when they collide with the magnetic field of the earth, if they induce a current flow that runs along the boundaries of the magnetic lines which dive into the earth’s poles and would thus create a gigantic current flow, and current flowing through a conductor produces heat. This heat could be why the earth has a molten core, or contribute to it. Solar minimum, means less charged particles, means less induced current, means less heat generated on earth, means global cooling. Is this possible or is the physics all wrong????
When I told my lib MIL that the earth’s temperatures were actually cooling in the most recent data, her face looked as if I’d just told her that her favorite dog just got run over in the street.
I said, don’t worry, it doesn’t matter if the earth is warming or cooling, the “solution” will always be the same -
more socialism, higher taxes, less individual freedom, more government control.
Numbers of sunspots probably don’t matter in the short run. There are no noticable effects on climate or weather that correlate with the 11/22 year cycle to any significant extent. But there are subtle effects, “space weather”, that eventually affect weather further down, perhaps with delays. Some jet stream pattern shifts for example. But the solar cycle length is also a good indicator of changes in other sun characteristics, not just spots, and those affected climate as seen in the Maunder Minimum.
I think your idea is ok and could affect some weather in some ways. But not heat from current, that would be negligible, and in fact there is no indication of extra heat on a 11 or 22 year cycle.
But heat developed deep within the earth would take a long time to manifest itself on the surface through the crust and mantle. There would be a considerable lag time. And the Sun has more than an 11 or 22 year cycle, I think I’ve read that there is also a several hundred year long cycle as well????
The charged particles colliding with the earth’s magnetic field causes the beautiful auroras, but little else.
The molten core is due to decaying radioactive elements and the “friction” of the pulls of the moon and the sun.
The cooling/warming due to the sun is more direct. Radiation from the sun warms the earth. More solar activity = warmer.
If you’d like a neat examination of the processes of the earth, read “Privileged Planet”.
There’s also an interesting theory about the weakening magnetic field letting more of the Sun’s rays in and causing the amount of cloud cover to diminish which leads to higher global temperatures. All in all, I highly believe that the Sun has far more to do with global temperature than the Chevy Suburban.
That's one theory, they haven't really nailed down why we have a molten core 5 billion years after the earth's formation.
“why we have a molten core 5 billion years after the earth’s formation.”
enough radioactive isotopes to keep it going for that long - that’s what I’ve read.
I guess we’ll know more when they are able to drill down several thousand miles and take direct measurements and samples.
Low temperature this morning: 31.1 degrees.
Another frost is due tomorrow morning.
This is because I live in the interior of Alaska. This is also supposed to be the place on Earth most likely to experience radical warming due to climate change.
Glad I had the heater on inside the greenhouse.
In the end, after quite a struggle and a lot of delusions.
God has other plans and will marvelously save Israel.
I could use some though to help recoup the massive investment of my own time, energy, and money that I needed to expend to come to my conclusion.
36 and frost on the windshield here in fairbanks this morning.
Well that was your mistake. You used your own money. Aren’t you aware that there is a bottomless, magically self-regenerating ocean of tax money that is available for just such pursuits?
Well, maybe next time...
Yes - I believe there are longer cycles in the sun. Also, some Russians have come up with the theory (and the data of course) that every so often (forget how long, 1000 or 10,000 years - something like that) our solar system passes through an “energy cloud” or something.
Well - here’s something from a quick search for russian energy cloud, etc. I didn’t read the article yet, but it DOES have a good graphic for the sunspots going back to the “Little Ice Age”.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_sunfreaking.htm
Okay - the site is “The End Is Near” type thing. Still - some interesting information if you can get past the hype and the doom and gloom.
Well we’re all just a massive gamma ray burst away from the worst sunburn we’ve ever had. The cosmic dice that get thrown our way..........
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