Posted on 07/01/2016 3:31:22 AM PDT by broken_arrow1
You may not have noticed but our sun has gone as blank as a cue ball. As in, it’s lost its spots. According to scientists, this unsettling phenomenon is a sign we are heading for a mini ice age. Meteorologist and renowned sun-watcher Paul Dorian raised the alarm in his latest report, which has sparked a mild panic about an impending “Game of Thrones”-style winter not seen since the 17th century. “For the second time this month, the sun has gone completely blank,” Dorian says. “The blank sun is a sign that the next solar minimum is approaching and there will be an increasing number of spotless days over the next few years. “At first, the blankness will stretch for just a few days at a time, then it’ll continue for weeks at a time, and finally it should last for months at a time when the sunspot cycle reaches its nadir. The next solar minimum phase is expected to take place around 2019 or 2020.” According to NASA, the sun goes through a natural solar cycle approximately every 11 years. The cycle is marked by the increase and decrease of sunspots — visible as dark blemishes on the sun’s surface, or photosphere. The greatest number of sunspots in any given solar cycle is designated as “solar maximum.” The lowest number is “solar minimum.” “During Solar Max, huge sunspots and intense solar flares are a daily occurrence. Auroras appear in Florida. Radiation storms knock out satellites. Radio blackouts frustrate CB radio as well. The last such episode took place in the years around 2000-2001,” the space agency’s website explained. “During solar minimum, the opposite occurs. Solar flares are almost non-existent while whole weeks go by without a single, tiny sunspot to break the monotony of the blank sun.
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Ah, reporters. This one was simply determined to run with a Game of Thrones trope and sensationalized as necessary to flesh it out. That’s what happens when you think of an eye catching lead that doesn’t fit the facts of the story. The sun has a relevant eleven year cycle. Check. We’re coming up on a minimum. Check. This particular minimum is going to be the worst in 500 years. Really? Why? Oh, never mind; cut to picture of Jon Snow in a snowstorm. This is what the modern American audience substitutes for evidence.
Time for everyone to buy an SUV to save the planet from the inpending ice age!
Who's they? We've been told for decades that the science is settled and anyone who does not believe in man made global warming should be silenced.
If we do enter a cooling spell, the "settled science" will either deny it or take credit for it. They view themselves as gods.
I mainly use the sun as a directional aid and a timepiece. As long as a dragon doesn’t eat old Sol, I’m good.
This is another “global warning hockey stick”. Take a look at the same graph, but go back 100 years. It’s convenient that they started in 1985.
Arrogant humans think they somehow can control the weather. The planet cools, warms, cools, warms, and has been doing so for much longer than man has been leaving a “carbon footprint.”
Oh and this is news?
I visit solarham.net daily, great site.
This is a natural cycle, solar minimum is now in full swing.
The article is silly, granted, but it won't take much more of a drop to put us in Dalton Minimum territory.
I predict much cooler temps by winter.
As I’ve said on other posts about this....
In 2009 the sun was blank for 260 days of the year. In 2010 there were 50 days without spots.
2008 set the second record low, 266 days vs. 1913’s 311 days.
So I must say the current span is insignificant.
Back when I took upper level geology course that covered this time period.
(Aside: A time when Al Gore was so stoned he was flunking out of law school! Yes he did flunk out of both law & divinity schools! He is that stupid, lazy and or stoned likely all three! We definitely should listen to him!/sarcasm)
My professor who liked making controversial statements said, ‘From his perspective climate-wise the earth was primarily a cold planet punctuated by periods of temperate climates. That's when civilization happens!’
Looks like global warming/climate change has finally reached the sun. When oh when will we ever learn?
That should do the trick.
Not drawing any conclusions and I’ve seen it back to the Maunder Minimum. There was no pattern like this before that but they seem to think it’s leading to another Maunder Minimum.
Really??? Snort)))))))))
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