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Our Sun is about to get unusually cool, researchers predict
news.com.au ^

Posted on 02/07/2018 10:12:42 PM PST by BenLurkin

It’s what scientists have termed a ‘grand minimum’ — a particularly low point in what is otherwise a steady 11-year cycle. Over this cycle, the Sun’s tumultuous heart races and rests.

At its high point, the nuclear fusion at the Sun’s core forces more magnetic loops high into its boiling atmosphere — ejecting more ultraviolet radiation and generating sunspots and flares.

When it’s quiet, the Sun’s surface goes calm. It ejects less ultraviolet radiation.

Now scientists have scoured the skies and history for evidence of an even greater cycle amid these cycles.

It’s what scientists have termed a ‘grand minimum’ — a particularly low point in what is otherwise a steady 11-year cycle.

Over this cycle, the Sun’s tumultuous heart races and rests.

At its high point, the nuclear fusion at the Sun’s core forces more magnetic loops high into its boiling atmosphere — ejecting more ultraviolet radiation and generating sunspots and flares.

When it’s quiet, the Sun’s surface goes calm. It ejects less ultraviolet radiation.

Now scientists have scoured the skies and history for evidence of an even greater cycle amid these cycles.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Weather
KEYWORDS: grandminimum; miniiceage; space; sun
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1 posted on 02/07/2018 10:12:42 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

I hope not.


2 posted on 02/07/2018 10:18:48 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: BenLurkin

Oh noes! Solar Coolings! Anthropogenic, of course because everything is out fault.

I see another Nobel prize in the works here as soon as Algore makes a fakemovie to tell us about how he predicted this.


3 posted on 02/07/2018 10:20:05 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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To: BenLurkin

And then there’s global dimming.

Global dimming is thought to have been caused by an increase in particulates such as sulfate aerosols in the atmosphere due to human action.

It has interfered with the hydrological cycle by reducing evaporation and may have reduced rainfall in some areas. Global dimming also creates a cooling effect that may have partially counteracted the effect of greenhouse gases on global warming.


4 posted on 02/07/2018 10:25:42 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: BenLurkin

Whenever “researches” start making assessments concerning the galaxy, it’s usually the opposite. Break out your sun screen- we’re going to get scorched.


5 posted on 02/07/2018 10:26:25 PM PST by Salvavida (The Missouri citizen's militia sends its regards.)
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To: BenLurkin

Hey Man! That Sun is like, so unusually cool. It blows me away!
It should be wearing those dark, dark shades.


6 posted on 02/07/2018 10:27:07 PM PST by lee martell
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To: lee martell

It’s not easy. Being unusually cool. Most folks just don’t understand.


7 posted on 02/07/2018 10:30:23 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: bigbob; Bender2; BenLurkin

solar cooling is CAUSED by solar cells, you see the photons we absorb with solar cells causes quantum entanglement to the photons in the sun stealing precious enegy from them causing the sun to cool down!!!!

ALL OUR FAULT!!!

HUMANS SUCK!!!


8 posted on 02/07/2018 10:30:24 PM PST by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: BenLurkin
Sounds like the world is going to be clamoring for some global warming
9 posted on 02/07/2018 10:30:39 PM PST by Fai Mao (I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
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To: BenLurkin

Imagine a very deep solar minimum coupled with several very large volcanic eruptions leaving particulates in the atmosphere.
That would be a fascinating occurrence.


10 posted on 02/07/2018 10:40:36 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: BenLurkin

The Trump Minimum as Gore and his disciples will surely blame President Trump.


11 posted on 02/07/2018 10:46:39 PM PST by Reno89519 (Americans Are Dreamers, Too! No to Amnesty, Yes to Catch-and-Deport, and Yes to E-Verify.)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s the Maunder Minimum. We are do for a mini ice age


12 posted on 02/07/2018 10:49:36 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: BenLurkin

And reading this article (Yes, I really did!), they still insist that the cooling will still be outpaced by anthropological global warming. Seriously? In all of this they are talking 0.25 degree C changes over 50 years!


13 posted on 02/07/2018 10:52:21 PM PST by Reno89519 (Americans Are Dreamers, Too! No to Amnesty, Yes to Catch-and-Deport, and Yes to E-Verify.)
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To: bigbob
I see another Nobel prize in the works here as soon as Algore makes a fakemovie to tell us about how he predicted this.

Actually the supposed global cooling has nothing to do with anything man made. So the entire anti American made up Algore nonsense that we had with global warming is not what is going on here.

14 posted on 02/07/2018 10:55:54 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: Salvavida

The math for the sun’s cycles has been very accurate for a long time, we are heading for a minimum similar to the mini ice age.


15 posted on 02/07/2018 10:56:30 PM PST by Do the math (Do the math.)
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To: nickcarraway

Yep, for the next 50-60 years. Some solar scientists predict much longer. Read up on the Little Ice age from the 1600s.

It won’t be cold all year round, just more severe winters, lingering cold spells, etc.

And one of these millenniums we will get the whole 110,000 years of full Ice Age. brrrr


16 posted on 02/07/2018 10:57:01 PM PST by citizen (President Trump: HeÂ’s combined The Art of the Deal with AlinskyÂ’s Rules For Radicals. Game over.)
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To: bigbob
Oh noes! Solar Coolings! Anthropogenic, of course because everything is out fault.

Not anthropogenic but conservatogenic, caused exclusively by right wing nut jobs and exacerbated by trumpogenic factors. You and I and Fox News are exclusively to blame.

Liberals will be driving 12 mpg SUVs, junk their Teslas and Leafs, burn wood in their gas fireplaces, burn trash in their back yards, fart as much as possible, eat nothing but meat for breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night snacks, bulldoze national forests, and whatever else it takes to stave off the scourge of solar cooling!

17 posted on 02/07/2018 11:07:05 PM PST by SFConservative
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To: BenLurkin

I like the climate. I hope it doesn’t cool significantly. I hate snow.


18 posted on 02/07/2018 11:25:23 PM PST by Crucial
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To: Nifster
It’s the Maunder Minimum. We are do for a mini ice age

Life becomes cold, short and brutal

19 posted on 02/07/2018 11:29:00 PM PST by spokeshave (FBI = Feral Bureau of Insurrection)
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To: sparklite2; shibumi

Seriously, I have remarked several times that it seems not as bright outside in the summer.

I thought it was just me.


20 posted on 02/07/2018 11:32:15 PM PST by Salamander (And Ezekiel Smiles Again....)
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