Planetary line-up excites the sun (Sunspot source found?)

ABC Science ^ | 2 July 2008 | Marilyn Head

[gobucks]

barycentre ... now that's a good word one doesn't see to often.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"It is one thing to show an association and quite another to show cause and effect. We have to be very careful, but we will know in a few years."

This guy is obviously not a Climate Change scientist.

An association is all those guys need to form an incontrovertible consensus.

[Thoreau]

Cool...now all we need to do is change the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn.

[Tirian]

bump for later

[RightWhale]

Richard C Hoagland has been talking about this astrology for several years. A possible new sunspot group has been noticed on the far side of the sun.

[Bulwinkle]

hmmmm, this sounds familiar....Fairbridge Minimum

The alignment of the planets, and especially that of Jupiter and Saturn, control the climate on Earth.

So explained Rhodes Fairbridge of Columbia University, a giant in science over much of the last century whose accomplishments are perhaps unsurpassed for their breadth, depth, and volume.....

Every 179 years or so, the sun embarks on a new cycle of orbits. One of the cooler periods in recent centuries was the Little Ice Age of the 17th century, when the Thames River in London froze over each winter. The next cool period, if the pattern holds, began in 1996, with the effects to be felt starting in 2010. Some predict three decades of severe cold.
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[MD_Willington_1976]

yep around the end of Dec 2007 and early Jan 2008 there was a small magnetic anomaly, these usually signal something is getting “fired up” in the sun... so far nothing really big.

[King_Corey]

I moved from MN to TX, guess I was ahead of the cold front...

[Sudetenland]

I thought it was Barry-Left/McCain-Centre...:)

[r9etb]

"It is one thing to show an association and quite another to show cause and effect. We have to be very careful, but we will know in a few years."

It would be great to see a plot of sunspot activity vs. the heliocentric phase angle between Saturn and Jupiter, covering the span of available sunspot observations.

If it's consistent over many centuries, these guys are prolly onto something. Their abstract suggests such a thing ... but it sure would be nice to see their actual data.

[BenLurkin]

Bump!

[chmst]

ping

[Bubba_Leroy]

It's Bush's fault. Bush and those damned SUVs.

Women and minorities will be hardest hit.

[Publius6961]

"It is one thing to show an association and quite another to show cause and effect. We have to be very careful, but we will know in a few years," he says.

A few?
LOL!

I'm thinking 1790 years at the absolute minimumum, and more like 17,900...

Just saying.

[Publius6961]

Astrology?

[grey_whiskers]

Like, *PING*, dude.

Cheers!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Ahhhh! All the planets are just the Sun’s moons anyway. No big deal.

[norwaypinesavage]

"A possible new sunspot group has been noticed on the far side of the sun."

Is that the side that you can only see at night?

[gobucks]

What an article; thanks for that...

[gobucks]

Now that was absolutely lateral...and I laughed.