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Warning: Sunspot cycle beginning to rise
AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/8/09 | AP

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


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KEYWORDS: beginning; rise; sunspotcycle; warning
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To: backwoods-engineer
I’m an amateur radio operator,...

: - D

Like minds...

21 posted on 05/08/2009 10:33:25 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: NormsRevenge
This report is laughable. First of all, as of today, there are NO sunspots on the sun. Secondly, it says,

"A recent report by the National Academy of Sciences found that if a storm as severe as one in 1859 occurred today, it could cause $1 trillion to $2 trillion in damage the first year and require four to 10 years for recovery."

It's all speculation...IF a storm as severe as the one in 1859 occurred today...it COULD cause...damage!

What I'm reading from this newsblurb is the AP's fervent hope that sunspots reappear so that "global warming" will pick up. Because if the sunspots don't reappear, then we may have a repeat of the Maunder Minimum and another "Little Ice Age" will be on the horizon.
22 posted on 05/08/2009 10:34:16 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: NormsRevenge
This is another false start... we are still in cycle 23.

LLS

23 posted on 05/08/2009 10:35:56 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Sounds good to me and all the other Amateur Radio Ops out there!

Hoss!


24 posted on 05/08/2009 10:37:53 AM PDT by HossB86
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To: NormsRevenge

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).


25 posted on 05/08/2009 10:41:03 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: Red Badger

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...


26 posted on 05/08/2009 10:44:26 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: NormsRevenge

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.


27 posted on 05/08/2009 10:45:39 AM PDT by flash2368 (Scary Times)
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To: Bobkk47
It's all speculation...

Isn't that enough to consider it a crisis?

28 posted on 05/08/2009 10:47:13 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: SaraJohnson
"A couple of trillion is a drop in the bucket."

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.

29 posted on 05/08/2009 10:53:31 AM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: flash2368

I guess they didn’t think the full details were all that important. Why wreck a good story with the truth?


30 posted on 05/08/2009 10:58:57 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ( Obama, you're off the island!)
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To: NormsRevenge
Warning: Sunspot cycle beginning to rise

I wonder if Al Gore wants to outlaw sunspots?

31 posted on 05/08/2009 11:00:30 AM PDT by Mark17
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To: xcamel
Didn't the National Endowment for the Arts pay a million dollars for a painting just like this?
32 posted on 05/08/2009 11:08:26 AM PDT by Never on my watch (GIMME MY FREE CHIKEN!)
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To: NormsRevenge

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!


33 posted on 05/08/2009 11:10:30 AM PDT by coalman (type to slow to be relevant,but I try)
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To: Bobkk47

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.


34 posted on 05/08/2009 11:10:57 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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To: NormsRevenge
No sunspots = crisis.

Sunspots = crisis.

OMG! OMG! OMG! WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!

35 posted on 05/08/2009 11:13:47 AM PDT by sportutegrl (If liberals could do math, they would be conservatives.)
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To: flash2368

You cannot expect the unvarnished truth. What would you do wiht it if you got it?

Better let us decide for you...


36 posted on 05/08/2009 11:15:12 AM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: EGPWS

The ONLY certainty in any of this is that it’s Bush’s fault.


37 posted on 05/08/2009 11:16:00 AM PDT by Clioman
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To: 1010RD

wiht = with (in Chicago)


38 posted on 05/08/2009 11:17:21 AM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: sportutegrl

Crisis, crisis - yadda, yada

Wake me up when the Sun explodes...


39 posted on 05/08/2009 11:18:03 AM PDT by Never on my watch (GIMME MY FREE CHIKEN!)
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To: Clioman
The ONLY certainty in any of this is that it’s Bush’s fault.

And it's a crisis.

40 posted on 05/08/2009 11:18:47 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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