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Earth approaching sunspot records
The Topeka Capitol-Journal Online ^
| updated 9-21-2009
| Corey Jones
Posted on 09/21/2009 4:03:07 AM PDT by grey_whiskers
The average person doesn't associate coolness with the sun.
The sun releases energy through deep nuclear fusion reactions in its core and has surface temperatures as hot as 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, according to NASA's Web site.
Not cool at all.
But the sun's recent activity, or lack thereof, may be linked to the pleasant summer temperatures the midwest has enjoyed this year, said Charlie Perry, a research hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Lawrence.
The sun is at a low point of a deep solar minimum in which there are little to no sunspots on its surface.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globalcooling; globalwarming; solaractivity; solarweather; sunspots; usgs; weather
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This may be "a cloud the size of a man's hand."
Cheers!
To: steelyourfaith; Smokin' Joe; rellimpank; Da Coyote
Like, *PING*, dudes.
Cheers!
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posted on
09/21/2009 4:04:58 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: grey_whiskers; Little Bill; IrishCatholic; Normandy; According2RecentPollsAirIsGood; ...
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posted on
09/21/2009 4:05:04 AM PDT
by
steelyourfaith
("Power is not alluring to pure minds." - Thomas Jefferson)
To: grey_whiskers
Would hardly call it a *pleasant summer temperatures* when the furnace kept kicking on. In July.
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posted on
09/21/2009 4:08:44 AM PDT
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
To: grey_whiskers
We’re all going to die! (sarcasm)
To: grey_whiskers
...may...... be linked to the pleasant summer temperatures the midwest has enjoyed this year The earth is going through it's normal cooling off cycle.
Gee! Could that have something to do with it?(sheesh)
To: grey_whiskers
the pleasant summer temperatures the midwest has enjoyed this year
Pleasant my a$$. This summer sucked in the Midwest. Cold and rainy.
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posted on
09/21/2009 4:11:51 AM PDT
by
TSgt
(I long for Norman Rockwell's America.)
To: grey_whiskers
The sun releases energy through deep nuclear fusion reactions in its core and has surface temperatures as hot as 10,000 degrees FahrenheitWell, it's not the heat, it's the humidity.
To: grey_whiskers
There is a sunspot forming on the far side of the sun which should become apparent on the Eastern limb of the sun after the 21st. This might herald the new cycle which is overdue.
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posted on
09/21/2009 4:18:55 AM PDT
by
outofsalt
("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
To: grey_whiskers; sionnsar; cogitator; xcamel; steelyourfaith
There is a single (potential) spot found by resonsce images on the BACK side of the sun that “might” still be visible as the sun rotates around.
It’s NOT a confirmed spot yet because we can’t see it - it’s only a magnetic discrepancy right now, but it will probably become a visible spot. One of the first visible since mid-February to the naked eye.
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posted on
09/21/2009 4:22:48 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: MikeWUSAF
...and when tomatoes can be grown in open sun without some shade and protection, in the midwest, things are not quite normal. This area had the coldest wettest june on record, and a pretty cool august without a single 100 plus degree day, much less any nineties to speak of.
...and finally the GW nutcases have shut up, all except the government, who appear to be a day late to discover their error, but are not willing it seems to be a dollar short.
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posted on
09/21/2009 4:26:24 AM PDT
by
wita
To: quantim
Would hardly call it a *pleasant summer temperatures* when the furnace kept kicking on. In July. If Chicago, Washington DC, New York City and Boston where to have one or more devastating cold winters with brutal temperatures and deep snow would it change the tone of the politicians?
I doubt it!
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posted on
09/21/2009 4:27:13 AM PDT
by
TYVets
(Let’s Roll!!! The leadership of the GOP has no spine and no guts, but we conservatives do)
To: grey_whiskers
God is in control.
America would do well to remember that.
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posted on
09/21/2009 4:27:26 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(It's time to make the earlier protests look like tea parties - the kind with tea & crumpets.)
To: grey_whiskers
Gad! I thought it was due to global warming.
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posted on
09/21/2009 4:27:53 AM PDT
by
usslsm51
To: grey_whiskers
The lack of sunspots is a result of man-caused global warming. I’m sure of it.
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posted on
09/21/2009 4:28:30 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: alaskanfan
We’re all going to die! Yeah...get ready for 400 years of global cooling
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posted on
09/21/2009 4:34:31 AM PDT
by
spokeshave
(Obama can't unjump the shark)
To: grey_whiskers
I didn’t know the earth had sunspots [see article title]
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posted on
09/21/2009 4:35:31 AM PDT
by
Puddleglum
("due to the record harvest, rationing will continue as usual")
To: grey_whiskers
How silly! Only man can control the climate and weather. Once Cap & Trade passes, Obama can promise even more of these perfect Summers.
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posted on
09/21/2009 4:36:03 AM PDT
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: wita
I hope we don’t have a nasty winter here in Southwest Ohio but it’s shaping up that way.
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posted on
09/21/2009 4:37:49 AM PDT
by
TSgt
(I long for Norman Rockwell's America.)
To: outofsalt
There is a sunspot forming on the far side of the sun which should become apparent on the Eastern limb of the sun after the 21st. This might herald the new cycle which is overdue. yeah....but there was a paper in an astrophysics journal last month that analyzed the magnetic field from this sunspot....the author postulated that the sunspot was either a remnant of the 24th cycle or the 25 cycle was entierly skipped and was the start of the 26th cycle.
Each cycle has different magnetic field orientation.
in any case...
not good
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posted on
09/21/2009 4:39:22 AM PDT
by
spokeshave
(Obama can't unjump the shark)
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