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Scientists predict rare 'hibernation' of sunspots
Yahoo News ^ | 6/14/11 | Kerry Sheridan

Posted on 06/14/2011 8:12:17 PM PDT by goodnesswins

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To: Paladin2
I agree and so do a lot of others: Earth may enter a Little Ice Age within a decade

You can find some interesting reading at this site. I don't agree with his every theory but with the possibility of significant global cooling or even the start of a new ice age, I agree.

41 posted on 06/15/2011 5:28:53 AM PDT by Errant
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To: Errant
Here's a scary graph for you. Note how the ice ages are getting longer and colder.


42 posted on 06/15/2011 7:39:59 AM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: Kellis91789

Thanks for that explanation....


43 posted on 06/15/2011 8:14:28 AM PDT by goodnesswins (...both islam and the democrat plantation thrive on poverty)
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To: familyop

be careful...which “hordes” would those be? I LIVE in the North, and right now I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE SOUTH!


44 posted on 06/15/2011 8:16:12 AM PDT by goodnesswins (...both islam and the democrat plantation thrive on poverty)
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To: vbmoneyspender
This one scares me more. I feel the two are connected.

Last column based on 1st qtr of 2011 only

45 posted on 06/15/2011 8:25:06 AM PDT by Errant
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To: Errant

YIKES...but that is ONLY 38 years....be interesting to know over 100 years....I fear a Yellowstone Blow...that’s what I fear...


46 posted on 06/15/2011 9:28:04 AM PDT by goodnesswins (...both islam and the democrat plantation thrive on poverty)
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To: goodnesswins

Heh. I live in a cold climate, was being silly, and was scaring southerners (lived in the south in the past). ;-)


47 posted on 06/15/2011 10:23:06 AM PDT by familyop (Shut up, and eat your brains!)
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To: Texas Fossil

Yes it will. Colder into the 2020s, not getting warmer until after 2035. That’s my prediction. The minimum will be at least two solar cycles long (24 - 26).


48 posted on 06/15/2011 12:14:52 PM PDT by Justa
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Rurudyne; steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; xcamel
Note: this topic is from 6/14/11. Thanks goodnesswins.
Bear necessity ping.


49 posted on 08/07/2011 7:44:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Note: this topic is from 6/14/11. Thanks goodnesswins.



50 posted on 08/07/2011 7:44:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: goodnesswins

They do not know what they do not know.


51 posted on 08/07/2011 8:28:08 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Obama get our AAA back.)
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To: Paladin2; SunkenCiv; All

Actually, what was being predicted 50 years ago when I took an astronomy course, was that in the next few years one of the periodic sun cycles, the 88 year one, would have us seeing drought conditions like the dust bowl/depression years. Incidentally, have you seen the Phoenix dust blows?


52 posted on 08/10/2011 9:58:28 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

The thing about natural cycles is they’re actually artificial, because they’re constructed to try to make something which is essentially random into something basically predictable and repeating; IOW, they’re not cycles anyway. :’)

The philosopher Hume asked the question to the effect, is it more likely that nature sometimes runs out of its course, or that human testimony is fallible?

It was meant as a rhetorical question, but the actual answer is, what we regard as the course of nature *is* human testimony.


53 posted on 08/11/2011 6:50:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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There was a news report tonight suggesting we might be in for a major cosmic flare which would crisp our electronics and satellites. Does anyone know how fast a flare goes from sun to earth. A friend said we should turn of our electronics, and possibly even throw the main circuit breaker for the house. Any opinions/knowledge? They also spoke of something called the Carrington Event in the 1850s which fried American and European telegraph systems.


54 posted on 08/12/2011 9:36:34 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
Carrington Super Flare
55 posted on 08/13/2011 5:17:02 AM PDT by blam
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To: gleeaikin
Carrington Super Flare
56 posted on 08/13/2011 5:18:07 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam; SunkenCiv; All

Thanks, this was a very interesting article. I am a little confused however. If he saw the flare at 11:20 am in Sept. and the outburst of auroras was at dawn the next day. Let’s say 5:20 am (anyone know what time dawn was in his area on that date?), then that would indicate a lapse of around 18 hours. Plenty of time to warn people to unplug electronics, and perhaps even throw the house main switch. But then the article goes on to say that astronauts doing a space walk would only have a few minutes to get back into their capsule for safety. Are there different kinds of energy traveling at different speeds?


57 posted on 08/13/2011 12:02:34 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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Thanks gleeaikin.


58 posted on 08/13/2011 5:53:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Being a part time herpetologist makes me wonder just what it is I’m missing.


59 posted on 08/13/2011 8:33:03 PM PDT by bigheadfred ("I consulted all the sages I could find in yellow pages but there aren't many of them")
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