Ulysses Reveals Global Solar Wind Plasma Output At 50-Year Low

NASA ^ | 9/23/08 | Dwayne Brown and DC Agle

[Dawnsblood]

I am not sure what it all means but this is for smarter FReepers then me I guess :)

[tanuki]

Break out the snowshoes!

[ParityErr]

The sun's current state could reduce the natural shielding that envelops our solar system.

I take it this is a bad thing.

[freebilly]

Global warming impacts solar wind.....

[BRITinUSA]

Cosmic rays are theorised to play a part in low-lying cloud formation, which in turn affects global temperatures...

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/Spotlight/SpotlightCloud-en.html

It all means it’s getting colder.

[kingu]

I wonder if someone’s now going to bother going through those theory papers of the 1970’s and check their predictions that spoke about the solar cycle and solar minimums and what they'd mean to the climate of Earth.

What does this all mean, though? It means the nations of guilt - America and Europe - have spent tens of billions of dollars on the global warming craze, ignoring the relatively cheap instrument that was recording the actual cause of increased temperatures and now the cause of reduced temperatures. That big glowing thing in the sky.

But those tens of billions were never spent on science, they were spent forming a religion of guilt, about how our lifestyle was harming others, and thus we must give up our lifestyle or everyone’s going to die. The prophet Al Gore will ignore this, of course, for no one will spend tens of billions studying that which everyone can see, and it contradicts religious dogma that man is inherently evil, and we all must feel collective guilt for our excesses.

My guess is that they'll flop over to global overpopulation again, then probably back to global cooling and the looming ice age that will kill us all. As they rule their religion with fear.

[Desdemona]

Serious question: do I need to up my SPF number?

[21twelve]

I don’t think the lack of shielding will be bad - its cosmic rays from FAR away so I imagine their strength is weak, etc.

Not sure how this all relates to the energy output of the sun. I suppose it is related - so less energy.

What I think is so amazing is how they sent the probe around Jupitor and that changed its orbit to go around the north and south poles.

[Wuli]

“and it contradicts religious dogma that man is inherently evil, and we all must feel collective guilt for our excesses”

And what “religious dogma” is this.

From what I know of Judeo-Christian “dogma”, it is human ego and hubris to think that puny humans control climate cycles.

[Dawnsblood]

I suspected it would run counter to the “global warming” theory but wasn’t totally sure.

[Myrddin]

Low sunspot numbers are correlated with ice ages. The "Maunder Minimum" and "Dalton Minimum" are two cases. Reduced sunspots and solar wind allow gamma rays to cause increased nucleation of clouds. Less sunlight reaches the surface and more moisture falls. Temperatures drop.

We are fortunate to live in one of the brief warm periods on earth. Ice ages are more the norm. It's pretty hard to conduct large scale, successful agriculture in the cold.

[kingu]

The religion of man-made global warming, of course.

[ASOC]

Speaking of cosmic rays

Around Delta Utah (next to the middle of Nowhere NV) is a comic ray observation facility (U of U)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-06/uou-fsa061606.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta,_Utah

http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=022806-24

for more.

IS this cool or what?

[HKMk23]

"Right now, we are in a period of minimal activity that has stretched on longer than anyone anticipated."

Seems Jolly Ol' Sol is marshaling his strength.

But, for what...?

got asbestos?

[17th Miss Regt]

When a human being starts to leak plasma, the physician takes it extremely seriously and usually starts an IV along with certain drugs to stop the leakage. It appears the Sun may need drugs to encourage the leakage. I don't know what to do about the IV part, though...

[Nowhere Man]

Well there goes 10 and 6 meter DX. B-)

[21twelve]

“IS this cool or what?”

It’s Cosmic!!

[uglybiker]

[smokingfrog]

We are nearing the end of solar minimum activity, which typically lasts around 11 years.
what's wrong with the sun? (nothing)

[PA Engineer]

BFLR