Posted on 06/14/2011 10:42:07 AM PDT by Interesting Times
Some unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles, could be indications that our sun is preparing to be less active in the coming years.
The results of three separate studies seem to show that even as the current sunspot cycle swells toward the solar maximum, the sun could be heading into a more-dormant period, with activity during the next 11-year sunspot cycle greatly reduced or even eliminated.
The results of the new studies were announced today (June 14) at the annual meeting of the solar physics division of the American Astronomical Society, which is being held this week at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Absolute drivel. The post is a perfect example for why home schooling is not for all.
Yes, though "any time" in ice age terms could mean in a decade or in a millenium.
We only have a few years of high-tech observations, and what is happening now is outside the experience of that observation window. It does seem to match well with the solar minimums that took place during the Little Ice Age (about 1550 to 1850).
However, ham radio operators know that the more sunspots, the better the long distance communication. We count on that 11 year cycle. I may have 3 left in my life. I will be ticked off if they all have wimpy peaks like this one.
/johnny
Interesting. I wonder if any Ham operators have kept historical records of those changes.
The research referenced in this article suggests, based on three different types of measurements, that the solar cycles themselves are getting weaker, and that Solar Cycle 25 may not appear at all.
Yep. The power to dispense or withhold funding for scientific research is the power to control, to a large extent, what that research will "find."
>> “I just hope that it isn’t a true ice age - but it very well could be.” <<
Actually, there is no threat of any ‘ice age.’
The ice age was caused by the hot oceans that remained after the Genesis ‘flood.’ Nothing that extreme exists today, and all of the cooling we will witness will be due to either volcanic clouding, or reduced solar activity, or both.
Long ago they lived in a land called Ussr. But they immigrated to the US and now mostly live in a block of land sandwiched between Maryland and Virginia.
>> “We are due for an ice age to kick in at any time.” <<
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Holding your breath? :o)
Under Obama’s economic policies, even the Sun can’t afford to pay for its gas and has to cut back!
What “Genisis Flood” are you refering to?
How else to keep the grant money rolling in?
The one that killed all life on the surface, changed the entire face of the planet, created the tectonic plates and the mountains, and the so-called “fossil record” of the deposition and cementation of sediments.
They already have that covered. The global warming nuts made the movie The Day After Tomorrow (2004). The premise is that the warm gulf stream flow stops (as a result of the reduced salinity from melting ice in Greenland & the artic) and Europe becomes cold which triggers a global ice age in a few months. They cast the US president as a exaggeration of Bush(a doofus wearing a baseball cap) and an evil power hungry VP resembling Cheney. At the end of the movie, the few remaining US citizens are grateful to cross the border and enter a welcoming Mexico.
To be a Leftist is to never have to say you are sorry or wrong.
Ah-ha! Thanks!
Buy battery stocks and solar panel futures, but buy your own batteries and panels first. Then you can starve to death in a well-lit house.
This is a science thread. Let's not turn it into a creationist / evolutionist flame war.
For those of us who find persuasive the evidence that the Earth is more than 6,000 years old, the ice core record provides a useful look at the cyclic nature of ice ages.
Thanks for the ping.
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