Posted on 09/08/2009 2:38:23 PM PDT by posterchild
Most of us wouldn’t know by looking at it, but the sun has been in a record breaking mode lately for its lack of activity.
It’s a trend that Charlie Perry, a scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, follows closely. For the past few decades he has been charting the correlation between droughts and floods in the Midwest and the activity of the sun.
It is from that research that Perry predicts that the current lack of sun activity could lead to a cooler winter this year and drought conditions around 2043.
The sun goes through a cycle of activity about every 11 years. And right now, it is going through what is known as a solar minimum, a time of little activity with few sunspots, solar flares and sun quakes.
Through Aug. 31, 51 days had gone by with no signs of a sunspot. It was the fifth longest period for days without sunspots in 150 years. And, it came close to breaking a record set in 1913.
The sun is still on track to break a record for the fewest number of sunspotless days over a three-year period.
“It’s pretty hard to ignore the big orange ball in the sky that produces all the heat the earth has. And, very small fluctuations in that can make a big difference in our earth and climate,” Perry said.
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Wow....150 years of sunspot records!!!
Who would think that the heating and cooling of the earth is influenced by its only heat source? Now that’s just silly!
God works in mysterious ways.
Especially when Algore Bearmanpig is angering Him with crap extortion schemes.
Yes.
FOR THE LAST 11-12,000 years.
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