Posted on 05/08/2009 10:08:28 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON The sun is moving into a busier period for sunspots. Forecasters expect a relatively mild outbreak by historical standards, but one major solar storm can cause havoc with satellites and electrical systems.
Researcher Doug Biesecker (BEE-sec-ker) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's space weather prediction center compared solar storms to hurricanes: A weak cycle may mean fewer storms, but even one powerful one can be devastating.
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Sounds good to me and all the other Amateur Radio Ops out there!
Hoss!
Yawn. We dealt with all of the flares LAST cycle, why are flares from this cycle expected to be bigger?
If anything new designs take into account what we learned from all the X-class flares of the ‘90s, especially for space hardware.
Plus, I don’t see much evidence that the next cycle has kicked off.
(Tinfoil will not protect your corpus callosum from flares).
More importantly, if we do not get sunspots this cycle I have read that we may have a winter without summer cycle again, a record busting global cooling cycle...
NOAA - “May 8 -A new active period of Earth-threatening solar storms will be the weakest since 1928 and its peak is still four years away, after a slow start last December, predicts an international panel of experts led by NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center.”
Interesting that Yahoo managed to leave this sentence out of their news report...and only included the worst sounding part of what NOAA released.
Isn't that enough to consider it a crisis?
Depends on the ethnicity of the residents involved.
If they need to rebuild a chocolate city, untold trillions could be involved.
If it's a vanilla city. Not a dime. Clean up your own mess.
I guess they didn’t think the full details were all that important. Why wreck a good story with the truth?
I wonder if Al Gore wants to outlaw sunspots?
well CME’s are and have been happening but No sunspots,except micro ones,some of those are old cycle,so predictions from these clowns cost what? too much I am sure,I am predicting no real sunspots till 1011-12,,mini-ice age,,time to stock up on coal and wood. Of course,you will have to buy from a dealer on a street corner and only burn at night!
FTM, it is entirely possible we’re entering a Big Ice Age.
For the last few millions years, we’ve spend most of the time in Ice Ages, averaging roughly 100,000 years each. They are separated by interglacial periods, averaging 10,000 years each.
We’re about 11,500 years into the present interglacial.
Do your own math.
Sunspots = crisis.
OMG! OMG! OMG! WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!
You cannot expect the unvarnished truth. What would you do wiht it if you got it?
Better let us decide for you...
The ONLY certainty in any of this is that it’s Bush’s fault.
wiht = with (in Chicago)
Crisis, crisis - yadda, yada
Wake me up when the Sun explodes...
And it's a crisis.
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