[Vaquero]

And oh, Algore? The reason it is hot this year? Solar maximum. You know that 11 year cycle? Look it up. It ain’t coal fuelin this train.

[The Great RJ]

Gee could it be that variations in the sun’s output affect global temperatures more than molecular level changes in CO2?

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The article is clearly biased. There was no mention of what caused the weak solar maximum. (Too much CO2 on Earth, duh!)

(I respect FR too much to include a /sarc tag with the above comment.)

[pallis]

The warming fanatics aren’t going to like this. Without the sun to do their dirty work, what can they depend on?

[faucetman]

In other words, there is no predictable pattern.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Bush’s fault.

[Catmom]

Not good news for ham radio operators.

[darth]

I do not fully understand what this guy is explaining, but it is incredibly interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phnPdLAdtII&feature=c4-overview&list=UUTiL1q9YbrVam5nP2xzFTWQ

I find his 3 and 4 minute news segments very informative, and his knowledge of meteorology and space weather are very impressive.

I think he is on to something with the interaction of space weather, solar phenomena, and Earth weather. I always suspected that the climate was an incredibly complex system with a lot of variables and drivers.

I do not think that the climate is a simple matter of total solar output, although that is clearly important.

[spokeshave]

Welcome King Barack "Canute" Obama the Great.....

...Obama issues an Executive Order to the Sun...

....to increase it's magnetic field....

and make a good crop of sunspots before elections in 2016....

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sunspot formation is triggered by a magnetic field, which scientists say is steadily declining. They predict that by 2016 there may be no remaining sunspots, and the sun may stay spotless for several decades.

The last time the sunspots disappeared altogether was in the 17th and 18th century, and coincided with a lengthy cool period on the planet known as the Little Ice Age....and lasted 400 years.

Good luck surviving with no electricity and GE modified seeds.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news203746768.html#jCp