Sun Goes Longer Than Normal Without Producing Sunspots (still not producing sunspots)

ScienceDaily ^ | (Jun. 9, 2008) | staff

[saganite]

The money quote:

In the past, they observed that the sun once went 50 years without producing sunspots. That period, from approximately 1650 to 1700, occurred during the middle of a little ice age on Earth that lasted from as early as the mid-15th century to as late as the mid-19th century.

[Paladin2]

Rut Roh, ManBearPig is also missing. Coincidence?

[Brilliant]

Bush’s fault.

[Red Badger]

Tsuneta said solar physicists aren't like weather forecasters; They can't predict the future.

Neither can the weather forecasters...............

[thecabal]

Shhhh...don't tell that to the greenie libtards...it makes them go into fits of denial.

On a side note, as a ham, the thought of another 50 year period with no sunspots makes me shudder.

[coloradan]

I hereby predict a cool summer. And possibly a cool cold very cold next winter, too.

[coloradan]

What, don’t you like 160?

[dirtboy]

"It continues to be dead," said Saku Tsuneta with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, program manager for the Hinode solar mission. "That's a small concern, a very small concern."

Sorry, it's a very LARGE concern. Global cooling would be a very, very bad thing. If it is happening, this country should be getting ready.

Instead, we're wasting time debating carbon cap-and-trade.

[kcm.org]

Yep, President Osama will fix...

[Thrownatbirth]

I recently bought an $80 Celestron sun filter for my telescope. Of course there aren’t going to be any sunspots.

[saganite]

I was watching the weather channel this morning and the shrimping season in Louisiana is starting late because water temps just now got warm enough. They also had their tropical watch radar map up. Quiet as a mouse.

[thecabal]

Sure, if I had the real estate for a full-sized antenna. :)

[skimbell]

Too many SUV's on the sun now. I knew it! We now have increasing "Solar Warming".

Oh, woe is me...

[saganite]

ping

[steveo]

There is a small sunspot emerging over the rim this morning. It looks to me like a mid-latitude spot which would make it from the declining cycle.

[pgkdan]

I hereby predict a cool summer.

I hope so...this is our 4th 100 degree day and I'm getting a little sick of it.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx !

 

Calculate your one-day Carbon Belch !

[sportutegrl]

Neither can the weather forecasters...............

Perhaps he meant: "Tsuneta said solar physicists aren't like weather forecasters; They (meaning the weather forecasters) can't predict the future.

[theBuckwheat]

For links to near-realtime images of the sun, see:

http://www.solarcycle24.com/

Latest SOHO images:

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime-images.html

[43north]

[I recently bought an $80 Celestron sun filter for my telescope. Of course there aren’t going to be any sunspots.]

A Ha! You are the culprit behind this nefarious plot to cool the Earth and deny the Gorebalists their long-sought control over humanity!

Just be happy that you didn’t spend $3000 on a solar telescope.