Posted on 07/01/2016 3:31:22 AM PDT by broken_arrow1
You may not have noticed but our sun has gone as blank as a cue ball. As in, its lost its spots. According to scientists, this unsettling phenomenon is a sign we are heading for a mini ice age. Meteorologist and renowned sun-watcher Paul Dorian raised the alarm in his latest report, which has sparked a mild panic about an impending Game of Thrones-style winter not seen since the 17th century. For the second time this month, the sun has gone completely blank, Dorian says. The blank sun is a sign that the next solar minimum is approaching and there will be an increasing number of spotless days over the next few years. At first, the blankness will stretch for just a few days at a time, then itll continue for weeks at a time, and finally it should last for months at a time when the sunspot cycle reaches its nadir. The next solar minimum phase is expected to take place around 2019 or 2020. According to NASA, the sun goes through a natural solar cycle approximately every 11 years. The cycle is marked by the increase and decrease of sunspots visible as dark blemishes on the suns surface, or photosphere. The greatest number of sunspots in any given solar cycle is designated as solar maximum. The lowest number is solar minimum. During Solar Max, huge sunspots and intense solar flares are a daily occurrence. Auroras appear in Florida. Radiation storms knock out satellites. Radio blackouts frustrate CB radio as well. The last such episode took place in the years around 2000-2001, the space agencys website explained. During solar minimum, the opposite occurs. Solar flares are almost non-existent while whole weeks go by without a single, tiny sunspot to break the monotony of the blank sun.
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This isn’t like the whole global warming hoax. It’s real science based on history.
This should have a direct impact on the San Andreas and the New Madrid fault lines. All sort of hell is about to break loose. Cities will crumble, rivers will change course, and we will all be made generally miserable or dead. Time to stock up on booze!
Dansgaard-Oeschger and Bond events?
Hepa filters. Stock up on hepa filters.
We need to fire back up those coal burning power plants!
We are in a solar maximum and it has been a pretty sorry one compared to the last few with few sun spots. As we enter a solar minimum sun spot activity will continue to decline and if the pattern holds to form it’s gonna get Brrrr! Cold!
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
I DENY THE WARMISTS.
I WILL SMITE THEM WITH COLD, ICE, AND DARKNESS.
THEY WILL FREEZE AND STARVE TO DEATH IN THE DARK.
Will cats and dogs “be sleeping together”?
What? No porn or smokes or chocolate? I’m not sharing a foxhole with YOU, LOL! :)
I’ve recently sold all I own and have moved to Der Hinterlands to write my Manifesto. (That no one will ever read, of course, because it’ll make too much sense!)
We are buried in the hills; our, ‘driveway’ is two miles long. I told Beau that he can count on a kick-@ss, nasty winter season my first one out here, because that’s just how my luck tends to run.
And now, I have the Sun working against me! A Gal can’t catch a break these days! ;)
Ah, reminds me of the days I maintained a Glowball Warming Watch on several different sites....
We need another one...
Long story short. More sunspots . Warmer weather. Less sunspots. Cooler weather.
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