[BenLurkin]

ping

[no-to-illegals]

Here comes the hugh cool. Series doesn’t begin to explain

[DannyTN]

[SkyDancer]

Weak? When in AZ the temps are around 100F?

[PeterPrinciple]

This would mean that our star has been unusually feeble over the past 9000 years

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[Afterguard]

Once again, we’re all gonna die. But can we keep going for at least another 11.x years? (AOC says we have that much time. What exactly does she know?)

[tet68]

Predictions of activity for the next eleven years indicate that this will not change soon.

Then again...

[Tom in SFCA]

Just one more way in which God fine-tuned the solar system for our benefit.

So let us take full advantage of our stable Sun by spending our days honoring the One who created everything.

[KarlInOhio]

Weak in this case refers to the variability, not the average. Other stars work more like a light bulb in a third world country where the brightness varies based on how fast the hamsters are turning the generator.

From the graphs in the article it looks like they show about ten cycles per year, but that could be driven by the sampling rate. So this is week to week changes rather than year to year.

For the Earth, the relation between small changes in solar brightness and temperature is about 1%=0.7°C. Reference: http://www.astronomynotes.com/solarsys/s3c.htm. Temperature is proportional to the 4th root of solar luminosity, so changing from 1.00 to 1.01 times the normal amount results in a factor of 1.0025. Multiply by the Earth's average temperature of 288K (15°C) and you get 288.7K (15.7°C)

[Rurudyne]

The word normally translated as create in English in Genesis 1 is really for prepare, as in making something from something on hand, adjusting it for a purpose.

As such preparing the greater and lesser lights could indicate modifying something previously created.

... and here we have our temperate, stable and therefore a bit weird Sun...

[ConservativeInPA]

While between active and inactive phases solar irradiance fluctuated on average by just 0.07 percent

I'm thinking climate change here, since I think it is proven science that the sun has the greatest impact on the earth's climate. So 0.07% is the average, and it is pretty tight - well maybe. What is range between +/- 1 sd? Also consider that magnitude associated with active and inactive phases. 1.3 million earths fit within the volume of the sun.

[shanover]

I just want to know what Hitler’s great granddaughter Greta thinks.

[a fool in paradise]

Maybe the sun is giving us a break as the earth is giving us an attack with a virus. Where the nature people on that?

[minnesota_bound]

I am thinking higher taxes would solve this problem.