Sun spot cycle impacting global warming and cooling

examiner.com ^ | June 21, 2009 | Kirk Melhuish

[Cementjungle]

I think we should start a government commission to study the feasibility of blowing up the sun to help solve the problem.

[grey_whiskers]

The sun has become more active so far in June with cycles 24 spots in middle latitudes.

I haven't seen any pics of them.

Cheers!

[GBA]

Nothing a little Cap and Trade won’t fix. Those rascal demonrats can do anything!

[Izzy Dunne]

a period of global cooling similar to one seen in the late 17th century - when canals froze in the Netherlands and people had to leave their dwellings in Greenland - could start in 2012-2015

Boy, you gotta hand it to that Al Gore - he gets things done!

[GreyMountainReagan]

"According to the study, during periods of solar quiet, 1,361 watts per square meter of solar energy reaches Earth's outermost atmosphere. Periods of more intense activity brought 1.3 watts per square meter (0.1 percent) more energy. "

This is suppossed to be a scholarly article. Sunspots affect earth's climate by inhibiting cosmic rays from the galaxy from forming clouds not by the miniscule 0.1% more energy.

The writer of the article put that in to sound intelligent and make anyone who didn't know anything believe that sunspots have no effect on climate and the global warming is all caused by MAN (cue evil music).

How difficult is it? The SUN and other natural factors such as volcano's affect earth's climate more than man does.

[Safrguns]

Bush’s Fault

[GreyMountainReagan]

I haven't seen any pics of them.

How about high lattitudes then.

[saganite]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090618131402.htm

[oldtimer]

Henry Waxman, Gore, Osama,and the rest of the marxists will certainly dispute the sun spot, and heating/cooling cycles, so they can put all of us in government housing with solar panels paid for with what is left of our money.

[rbg81]

The sun impacts climate? Really? Do our current generation of climate “scientists” realize this?

[UCANSEE2]

The SUN and other natural factors such as volcano's affect earth's climate more than man does.

Man is the only creature that worries about the weather, yet isn't smart enough to come in out of the rain.

[21twelve]

“I think we should start a government commission to study the feasibility of blowing up the sun to help solve the problem.”

How can you tax it if you blow it up??

[SamAdams76]

What is all the yip-yip-yapping about global warming? Here in New England, we can’t even budge temps out of the low 60s and it’s the end of June! We could certainly use some global warming around here. Maybe Al Gore can come up this way and give some speeches, we could use the hot air. My advice to him is to bring some cold weather gear as he’ll be needing it.

[UCANSEE2]

Thanks for posting the article.

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Isn’t the title misleading? Sunspots affecting global warming and cooling?

I know why we refer to sunspots in reference to gamma rays, but isn’t that like thinking the hole in the doughnut is what makes it taste so good?

[GBA]

I am seriously starting to wonder if the country can survive if the demonrats pass all they are trying to do.

Socialized medicine, nationalizing the car companies and the banking and cap and trade, of course...no doubt there will be a third stimulus, plus some tremendous tax increases to pay for all this fiscal insanity and lots and lots of money printed to monetize the debt leading to inflation few living Americans have seen or deflation...Blood in the Streets...coming to a city near you!

[immadashell]

The sunspot cycle is the key. The most recent example is the Maunder Minimum which coincides closely with the Little Ice Age of the 17th and 18th centuries. See THE CHILLING STARS by Svensmark and Calder for the full explanation.

[grey_whiskers]

Thanks, -- that is the first I've seen of *any* freckles on the Sun in quite some time.

So what do you make of the stuff about the Solar Conveyor Belts and 22 degrees latitude?

Cheers!

[InterceptPoint]

For instance, with an emerging El Nino the lack of solar energy influx may provide a critical boost of equatorial SSTs from going into the "strong" +ENSO designation. A weak to moderate El Nino episode, against what appears to be a neutral PDO configuration, may mean better capacity for -EPO and +PNA ridge development against an invigorated storm track running close to 30 N Latitude.

Oh, I knew that. Everybody knows that.

[VeniVidiVici]

While the NASA study acknowledged the sun's influence on warming and cooling patterns, however it concluded that man had replaced the sun as the primary cause of current warming patterns.

So now even NASA is staffed by a bunch of idiots.

Great.