Perhaps Al Gore does not, but I believe some scientists watch sunspots with great interest.
“Perhaps Al Gore does not, but I believe some scientists watch sunspots with great interest.”
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As a ham radio operator that specialized in worldwide communications, I watched the sunspot reports with great interest. Gore knows sunspots only as a skin problem.
I lived for the 11 year sunspot cycle.
In the peak, one could communicate with all corners of the world, and at the same time. During the low period of the cycle, the radio bands would be dead.
By the time I quit, I had communicated with most every spot on the planet, making it to “Top of the Honor Roll” DE W4EX.
Check this out.
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/solar-impacts-on-hurricanes
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Posted by: Dr. Jeff Masters, 2:36 PM GMT on May 13, 2010
I’m in Tucson for the American Meteorological Society’s 29th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. This is the premier scientific conference on hurricanes, and is held only once every two years, so pretty much all of the world’s greatest hurricane experts are here. One of the more intriguing posters presented at Tuesday’s poster session was titled, Evidence linking solar variability with USA hurricanes, by Robert Hodges and Jim Elsner of Florida State University. They showed that the probability of three or more hurricanes hitting the U.S. during a hurricane season with warmer than average sea surface temperatures increases dramatically during minima in the 11-year sunspot cycle.
(Links given of research papers if you go to the link.)