Posted on 07/11/2008 11:13:33 AM PDT by decimon
Nothing is out of whack with the sun, a NASA researcher said this week, despite some scientists' suggestions that a lull in the weather there lately is unusually long, a phenomenon linked to at least one small ice age.
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"There have been some reports lately that solar minimum is lasting longer than it should. That's not true," said NASA solar physicist David Hathaway. The ongoing lull in sunspot numbers "is well within historic norms for the solar cycle."
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Herm...solar cycle within (and well within) the limits of its HISTORICAL NORM. Solar Cycle (or lack there of) in the 17th Century responsible for the little ice age huh? You don’t say?
Who has Al Gore’s Email?
So I suppose we can assume everything is in whack with the sun. (I love getting a chance to use those scientific/technical terms.)
The sun’s “not screwy”, and nothings “out of whack” with it. Phew! This article is way too technical for me.
GMTA! If I’d seen your post first, I wouldn’t have bothered with mine — you said it best.
If, for the sake of argument, it were “out of whack” how would one put in back “in whack” anyway?
Translation: Situation normal...
You can count of these guys to always blow the smoke. The last peak in solar activity was 2001, and with an approximately 11 year cycle, the next peak should be 2012. It is now mid 2008, and the sun has been completely blank for the last 18 days. I’m not saying this is cataclysmic, but it is unusual and interesting.
They misspelled ‘non-existent.’
Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it’s been clear
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
and I say it’s all right
It’s all right
Well, the ozone hole is a non-issue these days, but climate change is still good for raising some bucks. That is, as long as it's man-made. There's lots of budget money for anybody who can produce evidence of AGW that the policymakers can use to fasten the chains upon us, and NASA wants its bit.
If it turns out to be the Sun doing it, that might get them enough money to orbit a replacement for SOHO, but not much else. Not good enough.
Raise taxes.....how else would we put it back in whack?
Give a dog a bone?
“Nothing is out of whack with the sun, a NASA researcher said this week...”
Well, knowing how good NASA is it at metric conversions...
Do we know if they used the proper temperature conversion scale...as they moved from Fahrenheit to Celsius? :-)
Aaack!! Global warming turned my font red!
Translation: The sun is not cooperating with the AGW-entrepreneurs, so it must be “screwy.”
You sure that wasn't the nude sunbathing?
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