Something has to be done before it's too late! Woe is me!! We're doomed!!!
Maybe we could send AlGore there to check out the situation.
Big one on Saturday, perhaps?
” Well, it looks like the effects of global warming (or climate change, or whatever the PC word-du-jour is) are now reaching the sun. “
It’s “SOLAR WARMING”, and it’s caused by all of those solar panels reflecting light and heat back to the sun and making all of the Solar Bears shed their fur....
(Hey - it makes as much sense as the GW spew... ;))
That damned Bush again!
Just tax the sun!
The snark on this thread is not justified.
This is not an article about global warming, but about a natural phenomena.
Solar activity and its effect on earth is well-documented but not well-understood, and apparently something we’ll continue to learn through experience.
“Sullivan, a former NASA astronaut who in 1984 became the first woman to walk in space....”
Actually it was Svetlana Savitskaya on July 25, 1984. Sullivan did her extravehicular work in October, 1984.
That’s what ya get posting an AP article.
Quick tax suv’s
See Link below...The little words next to the pink gragh read: “Welcome to solar max” The graph is by Leif Svalgaard
http://www.leif.org/research/TSI-SORCE-2008-now.png
ALSO:
Solar Max – So Soon?
Posted on May 8, 2011 by Anthony Watts
Guest post by David Archibald
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/05/08/solar-max-so-soon/
AND ONE MORE:
scroll down on this site to “Sunspot/Flux Chart”..updated DAILY!!!
http://www.wm7d.net/hamradio/solar/index.shtml
Alas, there is no way we can stop the Sun. So what are we to do? In a word, wait. If the worse comes, deal with it. And if not revel in our good fortune. These are our only choices.
Solar storms must be defeated.
will women and children will be hardest hit. . .?
Let your smile be your umbrella! That will keep the excess sun off of you! No snarkiness here!
Then why is the U.S. government wasting money on food stamps and welfare ? All that money should be spent on preparing for sun storms.
We need to put lead back into our gasoline so we can create a lead shield in our upper atmosphere to block out these evil rays from the sun.
An added bonus would be if we added high gloss lead to the gasoline so the lead particles could reflect IR rays from the sun which would then cool the planet.
Maybe we could adjust the amount of lead so that rather than cap and trade to steal money from us we could simply adjust the planet temperature with the proper mix./sarcasm>
“potentially devastating effects.”
OMG! PASS A TAX! QUICK!
Given the resemblance of the climate scaremongers to Chicken Little, your skepticism is understandable.
Unfortunately, in this case it's also somewhat wrong.
We know for a fact that the sun can produce and has produced flares big enough that if they were directly in our path, would do some serious damage to our infrastructure. In the 1800s, there was an event just like this. Fortunately, back in the day the only infrastructure that was succeptable to the electromatic effects were telegraph lines because we'd yet to develop other electrical infrastructure.
The question we can't answer is how often these kind of events are, so we similarly can't generate realistic threat assessments. It could turn out to be something that only happens once in a thousand years, which would make the overall threat less, though not zero, since we'd be talking about a probability, with no way to predict exactly when an event might occur. We don't know if these events happened prior to the 19th centrury because there was no way to tell when they happened. The bottom line is, we just don't know, so should probably take reasonable and prudent measures to protect what we can.
Could you imagine the impact a flare big enough to toast all computers that are not adequitely shielded? The kids running cash registers in grocery stores can't even count change. Everything depends upon computers to run, right down to microwave ovens, and any modern car/truck. The implications are staggering, really. Mandating milspec shielding on all CPUs is not the answer, but there are probably recommendations that it would make sense for people and businesses to take a look at.
So, while I wouldn't run around with my hair on fire, I think it's reasonable to be aware and informed of the issues.
“Maybe we could send AlGore there to check out the situation.”
He’ll be OK if he travels by night.
Not directly on the topic of solar flares, but not completely unrelated, I am still wondering if we are in the early stages of a polar magnetic shift of the earth’s magnetic fields and what the impact will be upon us when the magnetic fields are their weakest, and how long this shift will take.
I understand the earth’s magnetic field is weakening and I have to wonder if we are not in the early stage of this reversal, which is also a “when” and not an “if”.
Is this how the upgrades will be sold to the public while people go on diddy-bopping down the road of life and the Caliphate assembles the tools of our demise?
I guess massive computer failure would pretty much erase the national debt (along with our bank accounts and stock portfolios).
I guess there's more than one way to skin an economy...
In the meantime, what is the gummint doing with all those freeze dried meals?
There was an enormous and spectacular solar eruption this morning:
