[muawiyah]

NOAA's solar predictors are of two minds. One group has been predicting a humdinger of a solar cycle coming up any minute now ~ they've been predicting that for about 15 years.

The other group has adjusted its predictions to reflect the fact that we've had a minimum of remarkably long duration.

The guys wanting the humdinger also want you to believe we have a runaway greenhouse effect underway.

[SubMareener]

NOAA’s solar predictions for the start of Cycle 24 have slid to the right for the past two years. It looks as if it has actually started, but the slope of the curve is shallower than predicted. We could be heading toward the Gore Minimum and another Little Ice Age. At least that is what the dead Palm Tree in my Southern Arizona front yard thought before it died. ;-)

[aruanan]

A solar storm starts with an eruption of super-hot gas travelling out from the sun at speeds of up to 5m miles an hour. Electrically charged particles hit earth’s atmosphere 20 to 30 hours later, causing electromagnetic havoc.

So the earth is somewhere between 100 to 150 miles (5m X 20h or 30h) away from the sun?