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SOLAR MINIMUM (Global Cooling Alert)
NASA via spaceweather.com ^ | 12/2/2009 | Staff

Posted on 12/02/2009 3:11:26 AM PST by PreciousLiberty

The sun is in the pits of a very deep solar minimum. Many researchers thought the sunspot cycle had hit bottom in 2008 when the sun was blank 73% of the time. Not so. 2009 is on the verge of going even lower. So far this year, the sun has been blank 75% of the time, and only a serious outbreak of sunspots over the next few weeks will prevent 2009 from becoming the quietest year in a century.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: algore; cooling; cycle24; frozenthames; globalcooling; globalwarming; maunderminimum; solarminimum; sunspots; warming; whitechristmas
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To: PreciousLiberty
I agree, but nonetheless, after the 6th coldest October on record, Minneapolis had the 2nd *warmest* autumn.

At least the local TV stations are correctly attributing it to El Niño instead of AGW.

I wish the cold weather from sunspots would kick in during the winter, already.

Cheers!

41 posted on 12/02/2009 3:53:32 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: PreciousLiberty

Those numbers are the revised numbers. A year and a half ago, they predicted that we’d be in a roaring SS last year.


42 posted on 12/03/2009 7:48:45 AM PST by Marie (Obama seems to think that Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel since Camp David, not King David)
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To: PreciousLiberty
It seems likely we'll see unusual cold events this winter, probably worse than last year. I'd suggest that "the year without a summer" in the Northeast wasn't a coincidence either.

Apt forecast for the Woods household.

Sorry...couldn't resist.

43 posted on 12/03/2009 7:54:51 AM PST by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
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To: Marie

“Those numbers are the revised numbers. A year and a half ago, they predicted that we’d be in a roaring SS last year.”

Oh, I know it! Pretty soon they’ll issue another “revised” forecast, lol!

Reminds me of the last couple of hurricane seasons as well... :-)


44 posted on 12/03/2009 8:34:04 AM PST by PreciousLiberty (In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.)
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