....Is the new Lysenkoism.
Posted on 05/10/2009 3:44:14 PM PDT by jay1949
NOAA released its prediction for sunspot cycle 24 this past Friday, May 8 - - normally a droll affair, attended by few and hardly worthy of politics. No more. Like eveything else coming out of Washington, D.C., this NOAA report has a "spin" attached, in the form of a sensationalized tale of solar-storm damage. Well, NOAA is a Federal government agency, and the Federal government these days operates on the basis of crisis!!!, be it real, imagined, or manufactured.
(Excerpt) Read more at backcountrynotes.com ...
Hey sun, wake up. NOAA is talking to you.
However, they apparently have a solution for the solar-storm damage issue.
OK, the storm in 1859 overvoltaged pairs of telegraph lines, which weren’t made for terribly high, spark inducing voltages in the first place (only what could be had from a fair stack of voltaic cells, the dynamo not existing yet). The existing technology was too crude to even be able to measure these voltages. Bears watching, but nobody in the era of stringing high voltage power lines across America even thought of a repeat of 1859? Seems weird.
Because there's been more sea ice in 2008 and 2009 that means that the amount that will be melted is "greater than ever".
No doubt that will earn someone a Nobel Prize.
Solar umbrellas?
And...Sorry Al, it is going to get slightly colder!
THought about it maybe, prepared for it? Not so much....
See
http://www.spacew.com/gic/index.html
Over $30 million in damage from one solar storm.
THe photos are cool tho....
Kind of reminds me of the BATF raid in Waco to curry favor with Reno.
Maybe the Feds could train some sniper rifles on the sun? Crank off a few rounds at every solar flare that looks suspicious?
No question that solar storms can do some damage. That doesn’t justify using the threat of solar storm damage to downplay the prediction of a mild sunspot cycle.
Why not? Let’s jump-start the economy with a program to build huge umbrellas to be deployed in space. Tens of thousands of jobs to create, tens of billions in largesse to dole out. Let’s not waste this un-crisis!
Don’t forget, AlGore tried to do away with NOAA just a few years back. That has got to be THE most scary thing to a career bureaucrat ever....
1984
You mean the government has a perspective and it isn’t honest and benevolent? Has somebody alerted the media?
How about that little Cuban kid to curry favor with...
Global warming has caused the sun to get hot.
Is this the same group that has had to continually alter its sunspot predictions during the last year, because the sunspots just didn’t materialize in the numbers they had originally predicted?
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