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NASA’s Hathaway revises the sunspot prediction down again
Watts Up With That? ^
| February 9, 2011
| Anthony Watts
Posted on 02/10/2011 11:01:24 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
And this means: hotter, cooler, or no change in earth’s temperature?
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posted on
02/10/2011 11:03:57 AM PST
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Looks like more pain for AlGore and his merry band of nitwits.
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posted on
02/10/2011 11:10:03 AM PST
by
LoneStarC
To: GreyFriar
Cooler and probably wetter.
To: GreyFriar
I am only guessing, but it appears the Supreme Power that Is may be turning the microwave down to 3 or 4 from the 4 or 5 setting that upset Al Gore so terribly.
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posted on
02/10/2011 11:12:14 AM PST
by
azhenfud
(The government is not best which secures life and property-there is a more valuable thing-manhood.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Constant revisions by NASA means . . . they don’t have the first clue what will happen until it happens.
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posted on
02/10/2011 11:13:01 AM PST
by
SoldierDad
(Proud dad of an Army Soldier preparing to deploy to Afghanistan)
To: GreyFriar
Pick one, it's still “climate change”; and that means you need: cap-and-trade, drilling bans, higher gas prices, and curly light bulbs. Oh, and you also need to burn food for fuel.
To: steelyourfaith
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Wait! What? You mean the sun has an influence on the Earth’s weather? Get out! No way! Whoda thunk it? /< sarcasm>
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posted on
02/10/2011 11:34:06 AM PST
by
brownsfan
(D - swift death of the republic, R - lingering death for the republic.)
To: texmexis best
Wait, so that giant ball of thermonuclear fusion in the sky affects our planet’s thermal balance? I thought my Chevy Silverado was responsible for that...
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posted on
02/10/2011 11:34:36 AM PST
by
Flightdeck
(If you hear me yell "Eject, Eject, Eject!" the last two will be echos...)
To: GreyFriar; steelyourfaith; SunkenCiv; neverdem; cogitator; sionnsar
And this means: hotter, cooler, or no change in earths temperature? Well, we don't know. (And anybody who pretends to know, doesn't know they don't know.)
The solar cycle 24 predictions were ORIGINALLY (back in 2006-2008 timeframe) predicted to peak in 2011-2012 (Yes, that means right about now!) between 150 - 170. Now, that same solar cycle 24 “might” peak in 2013-2014 at less than 60.
What does it mean for temperatures?
We don't know. Last time the solar sunspot count and solar flux were this low for this long for three consecutive sunspot cycles - which might be cycles 24-25-26, we experienced the Maunder Minimum and extremely low temperatures for almost 70+ years.
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posted on
02/10/2011 11:38:51 AM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
They can’t predict change in Earth climate. How can they expect to predict changes on the Sun?
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02/10/2011 11:44:00 AM PST
by
Leftism is Mentally Deranged
(Liberalism is against human nature. Practicing liberalism is detrimental to your mental stability.)
To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
"They cant predict change in Earth climate. How can they expect to predict changes on the Sun?" Because the sun has been more easily observable for far longer than the earth (telescopes vs. satellites). Lots longer baseline for solar observations than for the earth.
To: texmexis best
Cooler and probably wetter. Yeah...try 400 years,
Mini ice age coming up.
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posted on
02/10/2011 11:49:16 AM PST
by
spokeshave
(WTF....the only thing 0bambi's investments will get us is a bullet train to bankruptcy.)
To: spokeshave
There is at least one researcher who feels that we are going into a Dalton Minimum, which would be very cold. We won’t know for a while.
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Thank you for the explanation. When was the Maunder Minimum?
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posted on
02/10/2011 11:59:31 AM PST
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Well, shucks! Here I have been rebuilding and upgrading my ham radio station, and now they’re telling me we’re going to get a crummy solar maximum!
It’s Bush’s fault!
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posted on
02/10/2011 12:00:46 PM PST
by
G-Bear
(Always leave your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.)
To: SirKit
Hansen-Gore Minimum ping!!
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posted on
02/10/2011 12:06:17 PM PST
by
SuziQ
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
“Well, we don’t know. (And anybody who pretends to know, doesn’t know they don’t know.)”
Let me start by saying, I’m not challenging, I’m asking because I want to understand:
I was of the belief that sunspots = solar flares. In that case, sunspots would lead to large ejections of plasma energy into the solar system. It seems to me that would have a heating effect on the surrounding planets?
BTW, if you are a PE, I respect that a great deal. Before I had a career change, I saw that as a lofty goal that I wanted to try for one day.
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posted on
02/10/2011 12:09:57 PM PST
by
brownsfan
(D - swift death of the republic, R - lingering death for the republic.)
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posted on
02/10/2011 12:23:26 PM PST
by
The Comedian
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