Is a mini ICE AGE on the way? Scientists warn the sun will go to sleep in 2030 & cause temps to drop

The Daily Mail ^ | 07/10/2015 | Mark Prigg

[familyop]

Here’s what’s making the extended minimum more interesting. The magnetic field has been wandering further and more quickly, as happens once in a great while. So parts of the magnetic field are weaker, allowing parts of the ozone to be depleted more than usual and more cosmic rays to get in. The associated outer core and lower mantle are busier (more seismic activity), possibly causing gases to escape into the atmosphere more—noticeably methane, also causing parts of the ozone to deplete more.

Result of extended minimum and extra magnetic field and outer core activities: broader, more radical weather pattern fluctuations occurring more often. Makes things more interesting. Think of it as an adventure.

[uglybiker]

That hemi's not gonna do much running through catalytic converters.

I'll help ya out by firing up my '99 Cummins, the ugly bike and my Studebaker let 'em run awhile.

[MortMan]

It’s not energy input. It’s sunspot activity, which has a smaller impact on the energy budget, as I understand the article. I can’t give a “real number”, but if the sunspot activity controls ten percent of the energy budget, then 60% reduction in sunspots means 6 percent less energy.

Just my understanding.

[Torquay]

I hear ya!

I live up off of SW Virgina and Arrow Creek PkWy and the temps this morning were cooler than I remember at any time here this time of year. And, the past 5-days straight of afternoon thunder, lightning, rain and yesterday's hail is not the norm here.

[familyop]

"Not a radio expert, but what these researchers are talking about is a very quiet sun so without sun spots your radio should work very well."

It can work either for or against communications, depending on the kind of radio usage desired. Many of the more hobby-oriented radio operators like to aim their high frequency antennas (really among the lower frequencies used today) at the ionosphere at more oblique angles for the purpose of skipping waves around the earth and talking to people who are hundreds or thousands of miles away. More sunspot activity helps them to do so, even at frequencies higher than 7.3 Mhz (40 meter waves).

I live in a remote, mountainous area with no useful nearby repeaters or emergency services. Ice can spray with wind gusts to 110 mph for hours during winters here (high elevation), and turn into ice dunes. Temps drop into the low minus-30s (F) each winter. Highways close.

The following explains as to how communication can be facilitated in such an area, if Internet service is down (only one provider and wireless only, nearest repeater further away than most in the business would believe). I learned about it as a soldier in the field long ago.

The NVIS Antenna
http://www.w0ipl.net/ECom/NVIS/nvis.htm

NVIS Propagation
http://www.w0ipl.net/ECom/NVIS/NVISprop.htm

IPS - Global HF - Ionospheric Map
http://www.ips.gov.au/HF_Systems/6/5

Been building equipment here and will be getting licenses soon. Voice capability will be needed, in case someone on the calling end has frostbite or other injuries that would prevent use of Morse Code. And no, here, it will not be a hobby. It will be for family members and distant neighbors (no nearby neighbors) to help each other when really needed (better than tens of thousands of dollars in bills from the emergency-rescue robbery racket). Much more serious and necessary than a hobby--maybe a matter of survival when needed.

Militant hobbyists are against such practical and potentially lifesaving usage, by the way, unless it involves sucking up to their socialist, emergency-rescue folks found nearby around more populated areas. ...or unless they find themselves in trouble in an area like mine and need help (middle of nowhere).

They've unsuccessfully tried to outlaw any practical usage of amateur radio between family members and friends. Their social rules are strange indeed, and involve bizarre pecking order concerns, delusions and conflicts over repeater usage and licenses. Some have been known to demand communications from newer operators in efforts to grill and entrap them.

[Marie]

Sorry about that. I was distracted with another post.

Please read the actual article. It’s worth it.

I’ve been following solar science for 15 years and the actual astrophysicists have been consistently saying that we’re going to cool down do to a decrease in solar activity. (Not NASA. Hansen is an AGW shill and the guy who replaced him is even worse.)

Also, you might appreciate http://solarcycle24com.proboards.com/

These guys have been up on solar science for years. Some fantastic physicists actually frequent the board.

[Cold Heat]

Good to know....

I lived in N Dakota for several years so I know about the wind and cold. Radio communications are a big deal during the winters there as well. But I’ve never owned anything bigger than a CB...Still use them...

Yes, the FCC and it’s regulators can be a real pain..formalities, rules, antennaes...

One day....maybe they will all be gone...