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Sun's Not Screwy, Scientist Says
SPACE.com ^ | Jul 11, 2008 | Unknown

Posted on 07/11/2008 11:13:33 AM PDT by decimon

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But that lucky old Sun's got nothin' to do but roll around Heaven all day
1 posted on 07/11/2008 11:13:34 AM PDT by decimon
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Herm...solar cycle within (and well within) the limits of its HISTORICAL NORM. Solar Cycle (or lack there of) in the 17th Century responsible for the little ice age huh? You don’t say?

Who has Al Gore’s Email?


2 posted on 07/11/2008 11:19:36 AM PDT by fightinbluhen51 ("...If it moves, tax it, if it moves faster, regulate it, if it stops, subsidies it.")
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Nothing is out of whack with the sun, a NASA researcher said this week,...

So I suppose we can assume everything is in whack with the sun. (I love getting a chance to use those scientific/technical terms.)

3 posted on 07/11/2008 11:20:40 AM PDT by ladtx ( "Never miss a good chance to shut up." - - Will Rogers)
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To: decimon

The sun’s “not screwy”, and nothings “out of whack” with it. Phew! This article is way too technical for me.


4 posted on 07/11/2008 11:21:15 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: ladtx

GMTA! If I’d seen your post first, I wouldn’t have bothered with mine — you said it best.


5 posted on 07/11/2008 11:23:50 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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If, for the sake of argument, it were “out of whack” how would one put in back “in whack” anyway?


6 posted on 07/11/2008 11:25:14 AM PDT by Rick.Donaldson (http://www.transasianaxis.com - Please visit for latest on DPRK/Russia/China/et al.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
This article is way too technical for me.

Translation: Situation normal...

7 posted on 07/11/2008 11:25:27 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

You can count of these guys to always blow the smoke. The last peak in solar activity was 2001, and with an approximately 11 year cycle, the next peak should be 2012. It is now mid 2008, and the sun has been completely blank for the last 18 days. I’m not saying this is cataclysmic, but it is unusual and interesting.


8 posted on 07/11/2008 11:27:43 AM PDT by ZX12R
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What's Wrong with the Sun? (Nothing) from NASA
9 posted on 07/11/2008 11:30:50 AM PDT by steveo (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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They misspelled ‘non-existent.’


10 posted on 07/11/2008 11:39:31 AM PDT by decimon
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Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it’s been clear
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
and I say it’s all right
It’s all right


11 posted on 07/11/2008 11:43:04 AM PDT by AU72
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NASA has been using environmental alarmism to get funding for years now. Remember the "ozone hole over Kennebunkport" flap?

Well, the ozone hole is a non-issue these days, but climate change is still good for raising some bucks. That is, as long as it's man-made. There's lots of budget money for anybody who can produce evidence of AGW that the policymakers can use to fasten the chains upon us, and NASA wants its bit.

If it turns out to be the Sun doing it, that might get them enough money to orbit a replacement for SOHO, but not much else. Not good enough.

12 posted on 07/11/2008 11:43:57 AM PDT by thulldud (Congress does not want answers. They want scapegoats. (andy58-in-nh))
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If, for the sake of argument, it were “out of whack” how would one put in back “in whack” anyway?

Raise taxes.....how else would we put it back in whack?

13 posted on 07/11/2008 11:44:35 AM PDT by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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If, for the sake of argument, it were “out of whack” how would one put in back “in whack” anyway?

Give a dog a bone?

14 posted on 07/11/2008 11:47:05 AM PDT by pgyanke ("Huntered"--The act of being ignored by media and party to prevent name recognition)
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All's quiet...

...perhaps too quiet.

15 posted on 07/11/2008 11:48:06 AM PDT by Redcloak ("Yes, I have been drinking. Why do you ask?" #1 on the list of "Things heard from McCain voters")
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To: decimon

“Nothing is out of whack with the sun, a NASA researcher said this week...”

Well, knowing how good NASA is it at metric conversions...
Do we know if they used the proper temperature conversion scale...as they moved from Fahrenheit to Celsius? :-)


16 posted on 07/11/2008 11:48:56 AM PDT by Miles the Slasher
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Aaack!! Global warming turned my font red!


17 posted on 07/11/2008 11:49:48 AM PDT by Redcloak ("Yes, I have been drinking. Why do you ask?" #1 on the list of "Things heard from McCain voters")
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...perhaps too quiet.

The Gore/Hansen/Hathaway minimum.
18 posted on 07/11/2008 11:50:02 AM PDT by ZX12R
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Translation: The sun is not cooperating with the AGW-entrepreneurs, so it must be “screwy.”


19 posted on 07/11/2008 11:50:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Public policy should never become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. -- Ike Eisenhower)
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Global warming turned my font red!

You sure that wasn't the nude sunbathing?

20 posted on 07/11/2008 11:52:01 AM PDT by decimon
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