Russian Scientist Predicts Global Cooling

1 posted on 08/26/2006 8:02:06 AM PDT by grandpa jones

To: grandpa jones

Here's the actual article.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060825-091321-7556r

"Al Gore is not going to like this"

LOL!

2 posted on 08/26/2006 8:05:52 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)

To: grandpa jones

Uh duh, the sun spot cycle has peaked an we are enterning a period of reduced solar activitiy. Like this took a lot of brains to figure out.

3 posted on 08/26/2006 8:06:47 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ( Elections are more important then the feelings of the POS Cons (Perpetually Offended Syndrome))

"Like this took a lot of brains to figure out."

We ARE talking about the KYOTO bunch, after all.

Brains doesn't really have anything to do with it.

MONEY and an AGENDA do!!

(but you knew that) ';)

4 posted on 08/26/2006 8:09:22 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)

MONEY and an AGENDA do!!

You are correct Sir or Ma'am. It can NEVER be said enough. This is NOT Science, it is Politics.

5 posted on 08/26/2006 8:15:31 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ( Elections are more important then the feelings of the POS Cons (Perpetually Offended Syndrome))

To: grandpa jones

As on the other thread: Between Global Warming and Global Cooling is what? Global Saming?

6 posted on 08/26/2006 8:17:02 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)

well I've been thinking about buying a motorhome with a big honking 9mpg gas V8

this may be my chance to save humanity from freezing to death..........

7 posted on 08/26/2006 8:21:24 AM PDT by nascarnation

It's not just normal, it's TOO normal.

8 posted on 08/26/2006 8:22:09 AM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)

SAVE the EARTH!

It's the only planet with Chocolate!

9 posted on 08/26/2006 8:56:25 AM PDT by hnorris (Deserve Victory)

To: grandpa jones

Eventually they will be right. The cycles have been consistant.

10 posted on 08/26/2006 8:58:20 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Only stupid people would vote for McCain, Warner, Hagle, Snowe, Graham, or any RINO)

"SAVE the EARTH!

It's the only planet with Chocolate!"

LOL!

11 posted on 08/26/2006 8:59:44 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)

Uh duh, the sun spot cycle has peaked an we are enterning a period of reduced solar activitiy. Like this took a lot of brains to figure out.

Uh, not quite. Last sunspot high was 2000, so we are in the middle/tail end of the ebb. Newest info shows that maybe the next sunspot cycle, number 24, will be larger than the last one by 30-50%:

From National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)--

Scientists Issue Unprecedented Forecast of Next Sunspot Cycle
March 6, 2006
BOULDER—The next sunspot cycle will be 30-50% stronger than the last one and begin as much as a year late, according to a breakthrough forecast using a computer model of solar dynamics developed by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Predicting the Sun's cycles accurately, years in advance, will help societies plan for active bouts of solar storms, which can slow satellite orbits, disrupt communications, and bring down power systems.
The scientists have confidence in the forecast because, in a series of test runs, the newly developed model simulated the strength of the past eight solar cycles with more than 98% accuracy. The forecasts are generated, in part, by tracking the subsurface movements of the sunspot remnants of the previous two solar cycles. The team is publishing its forecast in the current issue of Geophysical Research Letters.
...
Predicting Cycles 24 and 25
The Predictive Flux-transport Dynamo Model is enabling NCAR scientists to predict that the next solar cycle, known as Cycle 24, will produce sunspots across an area slightly larger than 2.5% of the visible surface of the Sun. The scientists expect the cycle to begin in late 2007 or early 2008, which is about 6 to 12 months later than a cycle would normally start. Cycle 24 is likely to reach its peak about 2012.
By analyzing recent solar cycles, the scientists also hope to forecast sunspot activity two solar cycles, or 22 years, into the future. The NCAR team is planning in the next year to issue a forecast of Cycle 25, which will peak in the early 2020s.

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So who ya gonna believe?? Russky scientists, Merican scientists, or AlBore?? Decisions, decisions...

12 posted on 08/26/2006 12:26:35 PM PDT by hadit2here ("Most men would rather die than think. Many do." - Bertrand Russell)

Thanks! Got to love Freepers. Always someone with the up to date word.

13 posted on 08/26/2006 12:58:39 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ( Elections are more important then the feelings of the POS Cons (Perpetually Offended Syndrome))

Always someone with the up to date word.

Hey, give me a few minutes more and I'm sure I can come up with a whole lot more conflicting sources.

Well, the data may be reasonable, but the "interpretations" and "emanations of the penumbras" will always change and be different. Glad I learned many, many years ago how to read... scientific papers and other stuff... and I can usually see through the PC, BS smokescreens of the "spin" doctors and evaluate the data myself.

Unfortunately, 1/2 the population, by statistical proof, are morons and there's not much you can do 'bout that.

Hehehehe, ever notice that the percentage of moron population [sub-100 IQ] is pretty close to the distribution of liberals and liberal voting patterns. Makes ya go "hmmmmmmmmmmm", doesn't it?

14 posted on 08/26/2006 1:56:34 PM PDT by hadit2here ("Most men would rather die than think. Many do." - Bertrand Russell)

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