Posted on 06/03/2009 2:32:29 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Was it a confirmed Cycle 24 sunspot, or another remnant of Cycle 23?
Ping to Post 39!
I have not been following that aspect of which cycle the current “spot” belongs to... and admittedly, I’m only following on the periphery as it applies to gore-bull warming.
Maybe someone who follows more intently can answer... its my understanding that the location of the spot may have some relevance, and that northern spots, of which this is one, makes it owned by cycle 23. But take that with a grain of salt please!
thanks for the links....munching thru the info.
bttt
Another interesting point is that when the numbers of sunspots are compared to those from earlier Minimums, folks need to remember that back then, they didn't have the level of detection we have now, so there could have been more than were recorded, and in fact, this level of activity might be similar to the earlier times, only we're recording larger numbers because of the sensitivity of the modern detection methods.
All the spots of the last two months have been “cycle 24” spots.
The DEFINING characteristic for the “parent cycle” is their magnetic polarity: whether the spot has an East->West magnetic field or vice-versa. “Newer cycle” spots are TYPICALLY at a “High latitude”, whether north or south latitude. “Old cycle” spots are even more typically found near the equator.
Note that the STARTING date for a cycle, however, is defined by the minimum of the 13-month average of sunspots. Right now, it appears quite possible that will have been in Nov-Dec’08. However, if Sol sleeps again for the next 2-3 months, that will be pushed into 2009. In the years around the minimum, both old cycle spots and new cycle spots are common. The first Cycle 24 spot in fact occurred as early as 2005.
Assuming a Dec.2008 minimum, Cycle 23 was in effect from May96-Dec08: 152months. The average length of solar cycles from 1944 to 1996 was 125 months. The length of solar cycles correlates EXTREMELY well to Earth’s temperature, a cycle one year longer corresponds to about a 0.3C lower temperature for Earth, with a lag time of 5-10years.
http://www.tmgnow.com/repository/solar/lassen1.html
These FACTS lead me to predict that the temperature of Earth will be 0.75C cooler in 2014 than it was in 2001.
Probably Bush’s Fault... He may have stopped global warming.
*snort*, but I guaran-dam-tee you he'll never get credit for it!
Don’t forget we should be returning to glaciation anytime between now and 2000 years as well. We are in an ice age we never left it.
I see lots of sunspots, oh wait nevermind, I have to clean my monitor.
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