[Balding_Eagle]

Right now, the sun is in the most active part of this cycle: we're expecting lots of spots and lots of flares in the coming months.

So she says. They've said that for several years now.

[UCANSEE2]

10% chance of X-class solar flare TODAY.

[b4its2late]

Lots of fun stuff here - Suspicious0bservers.org

[KoRn]

/mark

[Little Pig]

The Carrington scaremongers trot this out at every solar cycle peak. Yes, a real Carrington event would likely screw our technological civilization badly. However, missing from every one of these articles is the point that this latest solar cycle is by far the weakest in a generation, and the next cycle promises to be weaker yet; the number of sunspots associated with this cycle is much lower than previous ones, and most of the ones we’ve had have been much smaller and weaker than in the past.

We are not at the threshold of some new, terribly active phase of the sun’s behavior. The sun is going to sleep, which is likely to wreak just as much if not more havok on civilization than sunspots. No sunspots means a weaker magnetic field, so more radiation hits the earth; it means degraded communications, and there’s good evidence that it means colder winters and poorer growing seasons. We can live without TV; we can’t live without food.

[TYVets]

Scientific American pro global warming.

Accuracy Rating less than 20%

[CincyRichieRich]

Our tax $ pays these nitwit PhD morons to try to predict flares and spots??? Are you kidding? That would be like creating a fractal equation to predict which hippo in which mud pond will create a fart mud bubble to pop and splash mud on a neighboring rhino in the same mud pond. To quote a Japanese businessman, “that would be very difficult”...that means, there ain’t no way that is gonna happen.

[colorado tanker]

The Sun is about to burp! Be afraid, be very afraid!

[RhoTheta]

How to Predict Solar Flares (or, Why I Stopped Subscribing to Scientific American years ago). The article has modestly interesting graphics, seems to be written for a 5th-grader's vocabulary and imparts no really hard knowledge. I would have liked to know, since the alarmist press has been predicting solar flare effects that rival EMP for years now, why we have seen none of these predictions realized, nor does the article correlate the size of a given flare to any increase in EM radiation at the earth's surface. This article states that we are at the peak of the 11-year cycle, when I thought we passed the current peak a couple of years ago.