Solar Activity Diminishes; Researchers Predict Another Ice Age

dailytech.com ^ | February 9, 2008 | Michael Asher

[maine-iac7]

ARRRGGGH!

Ya got me beat - by about 6"

Your Place: Alaska:

Those mountains in the background sure add to the ambiance

Below: My place, Maine"

But we got 6 more inches coming tonight -

I'd sure love to have 6 months of sunlight - but I don't know's I could slog through the opposite

[the invisib1e hand]

oh, how the mighty have fallen.

and oh, how they feast on their flesh like maggots, rats and vultures.

[Billthedrill]

Khabibullo Abdusamatov?

An astronomer named Khabibullo
Claimed the sun was increasingly dull-o
"Where I used to see lots
I no longer see spots
And the flares seem to be in a lull-o."

"Not so fast," said a fellow named Gore
"If they're lacking we need to make more.
Sunspot credits, you see,
You can purchase from me,
And I promise you warming galore!"

But the sun is decreasingly bright
As the heat of the day fades to night
Al's counting the ducats
In their bags, bins, and buckets.
It turns out P.T. Barnum was right.

I'll pass on "Abdusamatov," thanks. Too dang hard.

[BlueDragon]

Bigger photo, different filter, from SOHO. I don't know if it will periodiacally refresh, upon each new [5 minute cycle] renewal rate, or not.If the time and date indicates later than the "post" time, then perhaps it will/does.

[patriciaruth]

LOL!

Really, really good.

[AFPhys]

The sun has been virtually blank for probably the last six months or so. Pretty strange sight. Finally got a small “cycle 24 sunspot” a week or so ago, but it’s gone now.

[AFPhys]

I just downloaded the data files and did a count:

Ol’Sol was blank for 161 days in 2007 - no spots at all for half the year.

[StopGlobalWhining]

Good posting! Real data as opposed to emotional scare mongering.

This is a NASA image of the sun on February 8, 2008 that readers can learn more about by going to www.spaceweather.com

The 70 year Maunder Minimum that extended from 1645 to 1715 coincided with the coldest portion of what is known as "The Little Ice Age" in Europe and North America.

[Billthedrill]

Ping to the Light Verse Brigade. Why not? It’s Saturday night...

[WildcatClan]

Looks like you are right :)

[StopGlobalWhining]

Global cooling scare in the 70’s to early 80’s, global warming scare in the late 90’s to 2007, now were back to global cooling. I think I see a pattern here.

The pattern goes back a lot longer than the 1970's. "Journalists have warned of climate change for 100 years, but can’t decide whether we face an ice age or warming." See Fire and Ice.

[skinkinthegrass]

Solar Activity Diminishes; Researchers Predict Another Ice Age

FLASH
WE"RE ALL GONNA DIE...

...women, chil'ren and minorities / gays, hardest hit.....film @ 11.....BTTT

[Minnesoootan]

and in Britain, people reported sighting eskimos paddling canoes off the coast.

wtf?

[El Gato]

I’ll laugh my ass off.

If you don't freeze it off first. It's gonna get COLD, and much sooner and more obviously than Global Warming was supposed to get...well warm.

[El Gato]

Of course if the sun’s fire is going out, maybe we just need to shoot some fire wood or coal over there and get it going again.

Uuuh, sure

[grey_whiskers]

While the GW trolls blabbed on about the non-existent CO2 problem

Whew! For a minute I thought you were talking about me.

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

Yeah, you sent the -20 South to Minneapolis.

Thanks, I moved up from Arizona to re-experience winter.

I owe ya...

...how does a tall cold beer sound? This summer, that is, I gave up both alcohol and chocolate for Lent.

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

% Rainy Days and Maunder’s Always Get Me Down %

DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING!

NO More Calls, Please.

WE have a winner!

[OPS4]

Well I guess Global warming is over!
Call Al Gore let him know.

[dighton]

You make it look easy. Ping to a coupla more Light Verse Brigadiers.