Sunspots could be seen by the Soho telescope in 2001 (l), but not this year (r)
Posted on 04/21/2009 10:28:59 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
Sunspots could be seen by the Soho telescope in 2001 (l), but not this year (r)
There are no sunspots, very few solar flares - and our nearest star is the quietest it has been for a very long time.
The observations are baffling astronomers, who are due to study new pictures of the Sun, taken from space, at the UK National Astronomy Meeting.
The Sun normally undergoes an 11-year cycle of activity. At its peak, it has a tumultuous boiling atmosphere that spits out flares and planet-sized chunks of super-hot gas. This is followed by a calmer period.
Last year, it was expected that it would have been hotting up after a quiet spell. But instead it hit a 50-year year low in solar wind pressure, a 55-year low in radio emissions, and a 100-year low in sunspot activity...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Que?
Important to note, there is an *11-year sunspot cycle*. In 2001, the Sun was near a peak. We are now in a minimum period of the cycle, an especially deep one at that. The next peak isn't due until 2011 or 2012, perhaps later.
No-one knows how the centuries-long waxing and waning of the Sun works. However, astronomers now have space telescopes studying the Sun in detail.
This sentence really encapsulates the basic flaw with the entire man-made global warming supposition. Earth's climate is very complex with elements of atmosphere, inner earth dynamics, ocean movements and sun activity playing a role. To what extent we can measure or control or manipulate to achieve a desired effect is unknown.
The bottom line is that we have no idea what we can do to make the earth warm or cool with any certainty by implementing man-made activities. At this point, all we know for sure is that we might make it better, we might make it worse, or we might have no effect.
It's pretty dadgum amazing that the Puritans were able to establish a permanent beachhead in Massachusetts [& New England] during that time.
You think it gets cold in the Foxboro Stadium during the playoffs nowadays? Try to imagine what the poor Puritans were shivering through, back in the day.
” And here we are going to all the trouble of trying to stop global warming and the sun is going to do it for us. Al Gore has to be disappointed. “
God has a wonderful sense of humor....
He claims that in the mid-1980’s, the Sun was at its most active and has been less active ever since, but our temperatures have kept going up. As if the lead time for influence couldn't be longer than scientists have estimated (however, we've had some really active years for the Sun since, too).
I can't wait to watch people lambaste this guy when our global temperatures keep going down and the only reason is that the sunspots have stopped, making the solar wind, etc. all go down.
Even MORE panic! Aaaaiiiieee!!!
Too much thinking for liberals.
Can you get it onto a postcard or bumper sticker?
Absolutely correct. Science really is still in its infancy across almost all disciplines.
Excepting the soft sciences which are designed for infants.
wow. ‘cool’ stuff.
sol a blank canvas.. for now.
the effect is so small that it has very little impact on the weather and climate on Earth.
the number of sunspots (through association with active regions) may influence the climate
the net result is a heating of the Earth
so the net result is cooling
So....fewer sunspots = more GCRs reaching earth, resulting in more low-level moisture-laden clouds.
Does this equal more precipitation, despite the cooler weather ?
One of the requirements for an Ice Age, or so I used to read, was increased precipitation to convey moisture to higher elevations where it dropped as snow, resulting in glaciers, which formed as the earth was cooler, and snow at higher elevations did not melt during the summer.
Have I got this right ?
It sounds funny to us Americans, but that's how the British, and some parts of the English speaking world, speak.
Well...if you predict an ice age and then predict global warming it’s kind of hard to miss. Good thing for us is on average we should be quite comfortable.
has it ever been this absent such? ever?
Sounds like another
Biblical SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS, of this END TIMES era, to me.
Somewhat one-sided article against cooling. We’ll see.
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