"Sunspot magnetic fields are dropping by about 50 gauss per year," says WPenn. "If we extrapolate this trend into the future, sunspots could completely vanish around the year 2015."
I’d say, we’re screwed.
My word.
Sunspots are cyclic. We know that. They come and they go. Sometimes their presence or their absence is especially notable. At the present time, their absence is extremely pronounced. Fine.
But evidence that they won't come back? Excuse me? Does this guy panic at 9PM, worried that dawn will never come? This guy is a solar researcher, and he talks like that??
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Global Cooling Alert!!!!
We need Government-Funded SUV’s!!!
But that will NEVER happen, because it was never about stopping global warming, it was just an attack on our modern way of life and capitalism and America in particular.
OMG, WE HAVE TO BAN SPOT REMOVER NOW!!!
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The UN, IPCC, CRU, and the rest of the cabal of global Nazis will simply turn their "Dangerous global warming" graphs upside down.
Then we'll be told that they need to save us from the trend of dangerous global cooling.
could, might, maybe, perhaps,
This is a very interesting article for two reasons:
#1, it demonstrates that there is a lot to be learned about climate change and it does indicate the possibility of cooling.
#2. Just as important you will note that we do not see hysterical wailing that the world is going to go back to the ice age with 5,000 ft. mountains of ice in IL and WI and that we are all going to die if we do not do something before dark tonight.
Instead you have the REAL scientists coll headed relation of the facts as he sees them and an admission that it is new ground that needs more examination and even that the research may be flawed.
Contrast that with the crazy rants of Al Gore and the rest of the GW crowd announcing that the world will end in years if not months.
These guys are to be respected whether right or not.
Too soon to panic. Somebody could plot a trend line of daylight hours from late June to late July and the trend line would show that we'd be heading toward perpetual nighttime.
The thing is, this could be correlated with the natural cycle of sunspots themselves, as pointed out in the article. Nobody really knows since most of the data is from DURING that cycle.
2009 had had fewer sunspots than 2008, so the minimum may not have been reached.
OMG. How could we have possibly cause sun spots to disappear.
Algore will probably postulate the problem with sunspots disappearing is it tends to mask the global warming that is occurring...
Fire up those SUV’s, we aim to save the world.
“Personally, I’m betting that sunspots are coming back,” says researcher Matt Penn of the National Solar Observatory (NSO) in Tucson, Arizona. But, he allows, “there is some evidence that they won’t.”
I’m assuming that (Dr.?) Penn was misquoted, or quoted out of context. Making such statements about a well established cycle, is rather like noting that you lose 2 minutes of daylight per day in the fall, and extrapolating to the conclusion that it will be completely dark (24/7) by next summer.
I sincerely doubt anyone that could call themselves a scientific “researcher” would have made such a statement.
Do you suppose the reporter’s degree has “science” printed anywhere on the diploma?
Yes, they will disappear within the next 18 months. 6 months thereafter the sun will extinguish itself and collapse into a worm hole sucking in the entire planetary system with it. The reason? Cow farts. We have minutes, day’s to act to stop this. It will take all your money, your modern conveniences and the last bit of sense humanity has....we are doomed unless we act! Act Now! Visit the ‘Hopenhagen’ Website and sign the petition!
It’s a cycle, long cycles, short cycles, cycles inside of cycles, and then boom, the earth is going to get scorched with a super, mega, gigantic flare, melting the ice sheets covering North America, and giving hope to the last of the Goreheads left alive.
I have Popular Science magazines from the 1980s warning of the “coming mini-ice age”.That was before the socialist drummed up the global warming scam.