Sunspot Activity at 8,000-Year High

SPACE.com ^ | 27 October 2004 | Robert Roy Britt

[Mr. Brightside]

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[Psycho_Bunny]

Personally, I tend to believe the entire article is crap.

[Mr. Brightside]

Sunspots? Helen Thomas has had age spots for 8000 years.

[pabianice]

Already linked to SUVs and ANWR oil by Barking Moonbats for Saving the Earth Under Marxism for Our Own Good but with Them in Control

[Alas Babylon!]

Right. So as the Sun glows brighter, with an increase in light, electrical, and heat energy, that doesn't mean it's getting hotter on Earth. Or, at least, they won't say it because they don't have "proof".

I believe they won't say it, though it's true, because they don't want to piss off the "Global Warming Is American Capitalism's Fault" mantra of the Leftists.

[JRios1968]

And of course, we all know he doesn't do anything that doesn't come from Karl Rove and Dick Cheney's EEEEEEEEEEEVIL minds! < /sarc

[JRios1968]

The first known record of sunspot activity was in a column written by Helen Thomas.

"Now come here and give me a kiss..."

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The position of the planets in their orbits around the sun was only inferred by Kepler from Tycho's ephemerides, he didn't take a tape measure and protractor and measure them, directly.

Most scientific knowledge is inferential. As recently as 1905 the atomic theory of matter was controversial, even among chemists. No one has ever seen an atom.

The strength of our knowledge is no stronger than the validity of our inferences. Perhaps the universe, the world and Free Republic do not exist at all and are only products of your imagination.

[quantim]

Well now the unusually cold winter so far in the upper Midwest has finally been explained.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

What is your specific disagreement?

[Plutarch]

The article says any Sunspot evidence is "*inferred* from fossilized tree rings" that are 8000 years old.

Yes, inferred. Tree ring data is very solid, as it is an exact year by year record.

2 entries found for inferred.

in·fer    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (n-fûr)
v. in·ferred, in·fer·ring, in·fers
v. tr.

1. To conclude from evidence or premises.
2. To reason from circumstance; surmise: We can infer that his motive in publishing the diary was less than honorable.
3. To lead to as a consequence or conclusion: “Socrates argued that a statue inferred the existence of a sculptor” (Academy).
4. To hint; imply.

v. intr.

To draw inferences.

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[Latin nferre, to bring in, adduce  : in-, in; see in-² + ferre, to bear; see bher-¹ in Indo-European Roots.]

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in·fera·ble adj.
in·fera·bly adv.
in·ferrer n.

Usage Note: Infer is sometimes confused with imply, but the distinction is a useful one. When we say that a speaker or sentence implies something, we mean that it is conveyed or suggested without being stated outright: When the mayor said that she would not rule out a business tax increase, she implied (not inferred) that some taxes might be raised. Inference, on the other hand, is the activity performed by a reader or interpreter in drawing conclusions that are not explicit in what is said: When the mayor said that she would not rule out a tax increase, we inferred that she had been consulting with some new financial advisers, since her old advisers were in favor of tax reductions.

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Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Main Entry: in·fer
Pronunciation: in-'f&r
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: in·ferred; in·fer·ring
transitive verb : to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises <could infer acceptance of the offer from the offeree's response> intransitive verb : to draw inferences —in·fer·able also in·fer·ri·ble /in-'f&r-&-b&l/ adjective

[Mr. Brightside]

You posted a couple of examples of "inferences" that turned up to be factual.

Care to post a few whoppers that turned out to be totally wrong?

[GreenHornet]

Well, I guess I won't be eating lunch today.....or dinner.....or breakfast tomorrow..

[capt. norm]

but the new results cannot be used to explain global warming

They certainly don't want to kill their cash cow.

As long as there is research money/political power in it, "global warming " will continue to exist....and not one day longer.

[xrp]

This sun thing sounds unstable and SERIES.

We better begin evacuating Earth.

[Sam Cree]

I haven't read this yet, but it seems relevant.

[Mr. Brightside]

And other definitions of the word "infer."
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S: (v) generalize, generalise, extrapolate, infer (draw from specific cases for more general cases)
S: (v) guess, infer (guess correctly; solve by guessing) "He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize"

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

We better begin evacuating Earth.

Does FEMA have a plan?

[Plutarch]

Context, Mr. Brightside, context. The inferred usage in this sun spot article is indubitably:

To conclude from evidence or premises.

[GSlob]

"I'd recom[m]end hiding under the bed."
You couldn't, for there are liberals under your bed. Why would one want to hide with, and not from, them?