Call the sun-busters on the Icarus 2. They know just how to put everything back in whack.
Posted on 07/11/2008 11:13:33 AM PDT by decimon
Silly question....buy carbon credits from Al Gore's company!
From earlier World Net Daily article...
Generation Investment Management's U.S. branch is headed by a former Gore staffer and fund-raiser, Peter S. Knight, who once was the target of probes by the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice.
Hobbs points out Gore stands to make a lot of money from his promotion of the alleged "global warming" threat, which is disputed by many mainstream scientists.
"In other words, he [Gore] 'buys' his 'carbon offsets' from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself," Hobbs writes. "To be blunt, Gore doesn't buy 'carbon offsets' through Generation Investment Management – he buys stocks."
IIRC, this is the same Hathaway who predicted with confidence that Cycle 24 would begin in January, 2008. He then changed that to April, 2008. I may have seen another correction from him citing May, 2008, but by then I was prone to only skimming headlines if his name was mentioned.
So the pole reversal happens at the solar maximum.
I wonder why the earth is so magnetically active now.
I know what you mean, I love this stuff too, but I can’t pretend to understand any of the details.
“I also remain concerned that modern sunspot numbers are inflated compared to historical numbers due to better observing instruments.”
I’m just a lameman...but i also vist the forum at solarcycle24.com
There are ‘rules’ whether or not s sunspeck counts as a sunspot.
There’s one of the posters there expalining it:
“Ok, I just finished talking with Leif on this, he said the size spots that receive a number must be able to be seen by the same power telescope Rudolph Wolf used 150 years ago when he started his system of counting. The more modern telescopes have certain rules they have to go by in making the observation. So [sunspeck]990 does conform to the rules and is legit.”
...Leif mentioned above solar physicist is Leif Svalgaard,
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Ok, what does this have to do with “gods, graves, or glyphs”?
Beats me. I didn't see the horror in it to justify a GGG ping. ;-)
Well, this is one of those “duh” articles where a scientist bucks the popular convention and calls it like it is. The sun’s current activity levels are within the norms that we have observed, postulated, and inferred from both archeological and historical records.
Of course, he’s going to find himself being scolded by his “handlers” for publishing a finding that runs contrary to what the grant underwriters want to hear.
I poured a few packets of raspberry Jell-O into your font while you were too busy typing to notice.
Hope that was just regular water, and not holy water in the font; I'd hate to have to extra penance for blasphemy.
If you understood math & science, you would know that what you said is absurd, and Mr. Nasa is correct in stating nothing is wrong.
You have two negatives, "unexpected behavior" and "second unexpected behavior"; and two negatives make a positive: hence, the double unexpected is expected, so is therefore expected and normal.
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“The sun’s current activity levels are within the norms that we have observed, postulated, and inferred from both archeological and historical records.”
And remember, that includes about 5 continental glaciations - as determined from ice cores going back hundreds of thousands of years. (Although, that is ASSUMING that the sun has something to do with climate!?)
And the good news is the Sun apparently is not going Super Nova. That would sure classify as abnormal. So I guess the fact that Earths temperature is well within historical 'norms', means that we do not have to worry about temperature.
“I wonder why the earth is so magnetically active now.”
It is not magneticlly “active”...it is decreasing and changing a lot faster than they thought!
12 December 2003 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The strength of the Earth’s magnetic field has decreased 10 percent over the past 150 years, raising the remote possibility that it may collapse and later reverse, flipping the planet’s poles for the first time in nearly a million years, scientists said Thursday.
At that rate of decline, the field could vanish altogether in 1,500 to 2,000 years, said Jeremy Bloxham of Harvard University.
Hundreds of years could pass before a flip-flopped field returned to where it was 780,000 years ago.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/earth_magnetic_031212.html
Hmmm...10% decrease over the last 150 years!!!? ? the magnetic field protect us from ‘solar wind’ and Cosmic rays!
Cosmic Rays Linked To Global Warming
ScienceDaily (July 31, 2002) — WASHINGTON - Researchers studying global warming have often been confounded by the differences between observed increases in surface-level temperatures and unchanging low-atmosphere temperatures. Because of this discrepancy, some have argued that global warming is unproven, suggesting instead that true warming should show uniformly elevated temperatures from the surface through the atmosphere. Researchers have proposed a theory that changes in cloud cover could help explain the puzzling phenomenon, but none-until now-have come up with an argument that could account for the varying heat profiles.
A study in the July 2002 issue of Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics, published by the American Geophysical Union, proposes for the first time that interstellar cosmic rays could be the missing link between the discordant temperatures observed during the last two decades (since recorded satellite records began in 1979). The report, by Fangqun Yu of the State University of New York-Albany, proposes that the rays, tiny charged particles that bombard all planets with varying frequency depending on solar wind intensity, may have height-dependent effects on our planet’s cloudiness. Previous research has proposed a link between cosmic rays and cloud cover, has not suggested the altitude dependence of the current study...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020731080631.htm
It is not magneticlly “active”...it is decreasing and changing a lot faster than they thought!
You are right, of course. Thanks.
I was referring to volcanic activity and earthquakes, but wasn't clear.
There was a new volcanic eruption in Alaska today, did you see? Ash plumes 38,000 feet up.
That's one of the little Martian rock creatures that moved out of the way of our lander.
I read about the volcano over the weekend...
There been a lot a magma on the move stories recently:
Heat From Earth’s Magma Contributing To Melting Of Greenland Ice
ScienceDaily (Dec. 18, 2007) —
Scientists have discovered what they think may be another reason why Greenland ‘s ice is melting: a thin spot in Earth’s crust is enabling underground magma to heat the ice.
They have found at least one “hotspot” in the northeast corner of Greenland — just below a site where an ice stream was recently discovered.
The researchers don’t yet know how warm the hotspot is. But if it is warm enough to melt the ice above it even a little, it could be lubricating the base of the ice sheet and enabling the ice to slide more rapidly out to sea.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071212103004.htm
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