Posted on 03/08/2013 10:13:37 PM PST by Olog-hai
“Something unexpected” is happening on the Sun, NASA has warned. This year was supposed to be the year of “solar maximum,” the peak of the 11-year sunspot cycle. But … solar activity is relatively low.
“Sunspot numbers are well below their values from 2011, and strong solar flares have been infrequent,” the space agency says. …
Experts have been baffled by the apparent lack of activity—with many wondering if NASA simply got it wrong.
However, Solar physicist Dean Pesnell of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center believes he has a different explanation. “This is solar maximum,” he says. “But it looks different from what we expected because it is double-peaked. The last two solar maxima, around 1989 and 2001, had not one but two peaks.” …
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Global warming no doubt about it.
See you in Church Sunday.
Ok, WHO'S DRIVING SUVs ON THE SUN!!?????
- Lemuel Gulliver
Ping!
We said 15 years ago something like a Dalton Minimum or Maunder Minimum would occur about 2011-2013. Now these so-called experts act like the whole thing was “unexpected” and inexplicable. The time is long past when these peter Principle graduates need to be given assistance to find employment elsewhere.
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I’m in there with another screen name that was too close to my real name for comfort.
:) I’m a post-tribber. Everyone who lives during the tribulation is promised to never thirst again. It’s going to be horrible and Jesus is very, very angry.
Experts have been baffled by the apparent lack of activity—with many wondering if NASA simply got it wrong.
So much for the apparent knowledge of our universe, and our scientist "EXPERTS". They're government employees don't you know.
Nobody silly. SUVs drive themselves.
The multitudes at NASA can’t believe their god, CAGW, has failed. Maybe if we sacrifice a few more goats, a few more lumps of coal, a few more miles per gallon, the gods will restore the sun’s power, and make the earth hot, again. Then we will smite the heathen deniers with our consensus.
Damn hippies that worship the sun all gathered around.... ah nevermind. I got nothin.
“baffled “
When Nature doesn’t perform the way humans want it to, they are baffled.
I’m never baffled. I stand in awe at the wonders of the world and the universe, and know that the mind of man is not capable of fully understanding it all.
And I have no use for the arrogant who think that they are right on the verge of finally definitely understanding it all.
Incredible that some of these pin heads can think that driving an SUV can impact our climate more than caldron of boiling Helium and Hydrogen 864,000 mi in diameter only 93,000,000 miles away.
Pretty much a consistenly spotless sun means cold.
Except with the caveat that I believe we may be capable of understanding it, but we certainly don't understand it now.
We can't even come up with a logical explanation for the absolutely most basic question of physics: How can both quantum mechanics and relativity be true when they flatly contradict each other? Yet all experimental evidence is that both these theories accurately describe reality.
LOL!
Well, THAT explains a lot. The next time my local talking head tells me that "an SUV slmmed into a ____________" (use your own word, here; crowd, building, person) I will know what he/she is talking about!!
Ooh, Spooky Action are those SUV’s. They’s scary.
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