[Red Badger]

Just in time for Christmas.................

[Perdogg]

Just in time for 2012.

[Just mythoughts]

For more than a year, the sun has been experiencing a lull in activity, marking the end of Solar Cycle 23, which peaked with many furious storms in 2000--2003. "Solar minimum is upon us," he says.

Could someone explain this count? What year did Solar Cycle 1 take place?

[Just another Joe]

Just in time for global warming/cooling/climate change.

[kittymyrib]

I’m sure Albore and the UN “climate experts” will be able to fix this with a few trillion dollars from us tax turnips in the US of A.

[Always Right]

The real question is how can George W. Bush and Big Oil and SUV drivers be blamed for this?

[DManA]

Good. I haven’t seen a good aurora for a long time.

[blam]

Ping.

[dbacks]

[The furious storms won’t start right away, however. Solar cycles usually take a few years to build to a frenzy and Cycle 24 will be no exception. “We still have some quiet times ahead,” says Hathaway. ]

I am not sure this statement is accurate. History has shown that cycles ramp up rapidly and decay more slowly.

[Fresh Wind]

My calendar ends at the end of this month. You have no chance to survive make your time.

[KoRn]

We had better get a biopsy of that spot. It doesn’t look good....

[Andonius_99]

I sure as hell hope so - it’s freezing up here in CT!

[G.Mason]

I should be alright. The wife is post solar cycle.(I think that's what she called it)

Anyway ... she's a lot cooler now.

[Ditter]

I don’t have time to read this now,just tell me........ are we going to burn to a crisp or freeze to death?

(I have to get my wardrobe ready)

[sionnsar]

Many forecasters believe Solar Cycle 24 will be big and intense.

Place your bets for SC24: "A number of well regarded solar physicists are predicting the next solar cycle will be far weaker than the last one."

Most interesting: "The Russian Academy of Sciences announced a paper predicting a Dalton-minimum style cooling because of extreme weakness in the predicted strengths of Solar Cycles 24 and 25. It looks like Greenhouse Theory and the Solar Cycle Theory are about to get their sternest tests."

Hmmm, we might want to be pumping more, not less, CO2 out. (OTOH, we can point to the cold weather as having overshot the mark and blame the Greenies...)

[thinking]

This a case of “old” news...the sun spots are a 11 year occurrence....nothing new here....

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

If it warms us up a bit, the left will crow “global warming”, and totally hide the fact that it’s caused by the sun doing a dance.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. Minimum approaches. Solar magnetic pole flip happened in 2001.

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[Karliner]

Cripes and I sat on my tinfoil hat again...we’re soooooo doooooomed.

[r9etb]

The region that appeared on Dec. 11th fits both these criteria. It is high latitude (24 degrees N) and magnetically reversed. Just one problem: There is no sunspot. So far the region is just a bright knot of magnetic fields. If, however, these fields coalesce into a dark sunspot, scientists are ready to announce that Solar Cycle 24 has officially begun.

Sounds like people looking for the end of Ramadan....

[chilepepper]

new solar cycle beginning! 1 second after 0000hrs 01 january 2008!

flee!