[SamuraiScot]

This Week's Super Active Sun Could Disrupt Cell Phone, Radio, And GPS Communications (IAS)

But remember: Solar flares can do all that, but they can't cause a spike in temperature or a warming cycle on earth. Because if we admit that, it blows our man-made global warming hypothesis all to heck. And good-bye, taxpayer grants.

[Voltage]

From the article: Outten said that as the Earth revolves around the Sun it could move into a better position to face the sun spot.

Nonsense! The sun rotates once every 25 days, it's that rotation that will bring the sunspot into a position to direct the flare approximately toward the earth.

[ottbmare]

I was about to remark that I don’t understand why we are having such cold miserable weather if the sun has been active with sunspots lately. I thought our climate was largely influenced by solar activity and I’ve been arguing with Libs to that effect for some time. Was I wrong?

[spokeshave]

But remember: Solar flares can do all that, but they can't cause a spike in temperature or a warming cycle on earth.

The converse....

The Sun's magnetic field is in a long term decline mode.....

resulting in a decline in sunspot formation....

Thus global cooling....