Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 10/26/2009 3:15:43 PM PDT by steveo
No matter what conclusions one gravitates towards regarding climate change and potential solar impacts, the data is irrefutable: the sun is slowly becoming more active.
The 10.7cm radio flux spiked in late September with its highest reading in 18 months; now, and this is very significant compared to the pattern since March 2008, it has spiked again, exceeding the late September number and reaching a Cycle 24 maximum of 76.9.
This is still a very low value compared to the solar maximum flux numbers, which routinely exceed 200. However, it is an upward move from the “basement” numbers of the past 19 months which have typically run between 66 and 70.
The plot included with this report shows an gradual but definite upward slope in the radio flux during the past two months; such a consistent slope more strongly suggests (more than any other time in the past two years) that the sun is merging from its deepest solar minimum since 1913.
A well-defined sunspot group emerged on October 23, ending the 20-day blank streak and also emitting a moderate (class C) solar flare. The greater intensity of the flare is also a clue to heightened magnetism within the sunspot groups.
Given that there will no doubt be more blank days in 2009 between these solar spikes, this year may move upward from its present ranking of 6th place for lack of sunspots to perhaps 2nd or 3rd place. So the Cycle 23/24 solar minimum seems headed towards the history books as of this writing.
While confidence in this claim is not 100%, it’s definitely better than even money based on the data.
Mankind is perverse in the fact that we repeat this particular pattern over and over again. In times of natural climate change the average man turns to soothsayers who claim to be able to cure the problem through sophisticated witchcraft and crazy schemes. Once upon a time these frauds would claim the best of every harvest and human sacrifices. Now they claim the best of every harvest (taxation) and they still demand that others sacrifice for their cause.
Same story, different era.
(1) Cyanobacter infected with certain viruses in the ocean increase their oxygen production several times over the unstimulated background level. This produces half the oxygen found in our atmosphere.
(2) Scientists reveal they can emulate the process and use genes from four different bacterial strains to load into cyanobacter and give it enough umph to take ordinary carbon dioxide and turn it into oxygen and a potential fuel not all that different from "light crude".
(3)Which means we have an entirely new category of bio-weapon which can also power our automobiles and every other machine on Earth at little cost directly from the Sun.
Shur 'nuf gon' be 'citin around here.
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