Courtesy SOHO
Posted on 01/23/2009 8:14:33 AM PST by PreciousLiberty
"Yesterday's sunspot (NOAA 1011) has rapidly faded away. The sunspot's low latitude suggests it may have been a member of old Solar Cycle 23; the sunspot's magnetic polarity was unusual and did not clearly identify it as a member of either Cycle 23 or Cycle 24."
(Excerpt) Read more at spaceweather.com ...
The current cycle is well into the top 10% longest/weakest cycles on record. Long, weak solar cycles are associated with global cooling strong enough to swamp any slight effect associated with CO2 absorption bands.
Keep an eye on the weather reports, and also the constant and frantic attempts by those with vested interests to stoke the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming fire (so to speak;).
Nature does not conform to Man’s expectations.
The Sun does not feel compelled to fit into our categories.
Courtesy SOHO
That looks ‘xactly like the last one. :)
More of Bush’s misdeeds, undoubtedly.
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Pretty obvious, right?
So who’s gonna be da 1st 2 suggest that the Mayans were watching sunspots (somehow!) to come up with their endOdaWorld 2012 calendar?!
Ya jus know dat sum nutcake is gonna say it!
Do we count the anomalies near the edge at 11 O’Clock, or the smaller, darker ones near the center at 4 O’Clock, or both?
Gosh, I wonder what the temperature trend on Mars is like right now...
You do know that the Mayans knew we’d run out of sunspots in the Final Days, don’t you?
Oh, drat! There go the heating bills again!
God’s plan to make demoKKKrats look stupid....
Wow! That thing sure is round!
“Do we count the anomalies near the edge at 11 O’Clock, or the smaller, darker ones near the center at 4 O’Clock, or both?”
NASA (and other solar observers) only count dark spots. There’s a bit more to it than that though, since the earlier records (1600-1750) didn’t involve 24-hour, space-based, computer assisted sunspot monitoring.
So, one must be a bit careful comparing with the historical record.
BTW, I didn’t mean to imply that they _did_ have those things after 1750, I mentioned that cutoff date since that was around the end of the longest, most unusual, and coldest minimum event on record (the Maunder Minimum).
SirKit and I propose that this Solar Minimum be named the AlGore Minimum.
“SirKit and I propose that this Solar Minimum be named the AlGore Minimum.”
Actually I’d like to see it named the “Gorean Minimum”. I always was a Tarl Cabot fan. ;-)
LOL
The first one was about the Florida freeze - 'the coldest in years', and the second one was about trees dying because of global warming. They've flipped-flopped them now, but they're still there on the front page.
LOL!
The 19ths sunspot was huge compared to the peewee high latitude(south), 24th cycle spot of a week before that. I had to obtain the high resolution picture, and then correlate it with one of the other pictures (Ca, I think) in order to find it. On the huge picture it was smaller than this period:.
I have serious doubts that it would have been seen as few as fifty years ago. Yet, it earned a “sunspot number” of 11 or 12 for one day.
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