The silent Sun’s uncertain course

Financial Times ^ | October 1, 2008 | Staff

[Iron Munro]

See the last few paragraphs.

Experts aren't certain about anything at all other than the fact that these conditions lead to colder weather but they are absolutely sure that Global warming will still prevail!

[redstateconfidential]

DOOOOMMMMMMMEEEEEEEDDDDDDD !

[Kiss Me Hardy]

Bush’s fault.

[gitmo]

“Predicting the next maximum now is rather like forecasting next summer’s weather in the middle of winter,” says Jim Wild, a space scientist at Lancaster University.

But Algore can tell you the weather for the next 100 years.

[olezip]

If the Sun stays quiet for the next few years, it may temper the effects of man-made global warming for a while but most experts believe that rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will eventually push temperatures higher again.

This incorrect assertion destroys any credibility this article may have had. Increased levels of carbon dioxide come after, not before global warming! Everybody knows that except Al Gore and his paid minions!

[JRandomFreeper]

I have fond memories of working a station in California from North Texas on 52.525 FM. On a 5 watt handi-talky connected to a cubical quad.

And 2-meter repeater interference from over 400 miles away.

I would like to see (at least) one more maximum before I shuffle off this mortal coil.

I can handle the cold or the heat, just give me propagation, and a higher MUF.

/johnny

[Taxbilly]

Obama will fix it in the first 100 days of his administration.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Prof Mayewski says: “The fact that we are not in conditions like the little ice age today shows that the atmosphere is being perturbed by human activities.”

Jim Wild, a space scientist at Lancaster University, says:“Predicting the next maximum now is rather like forecasting next summer’s weather in the middle of winter.”

Can you spot the leftist who wants to tax us trillions of dollars for no good reason other than wealth redistribution?

[Taxbilly]

Yep DX is following the DOW

[Bernard]

The solar wind – SNIP - is weaker than at any time since scientists began accurate observations in the 1950s,

Bernard's Law of Inverse Relationships - The strength of the solar wind is inversely proportional to the amount of hot air coming out of Washington, DC. This is especially true for science substitutes for scientific fact regarding climate change. Expect the solar wind to remain very weak for the next 35 days or so. Maybe longer.

[onedoug]

Summer here in LA is about normal. Perhaps a tad more humid than usual.

The Sun as a star. Imagine that!

[Old Professer]

Time to put shades on all those solar power collectors before we suck all the power out of Old Sol.

[sobieski]

Um, maybe we are just entering the ice age? According to what I”ve read, it require 0.5% drop per annum over 10 years. Guess what; we’ve started that sort of drop over the past 18 mos.

[sobieski]

“This day marks when the seas stopped rising”

Yes, Hussein, because we entered an Ice Age and the whole darn planet began to freeze.

[G Larry]

Where there are no problems, there are no grants.

Notice that the only “problems” recieving grants are those that can be leveraged into more socialist controls.

[uncle fenders]

It is a little creepy, like the beginning of a B level sci-fi movie...Whats next, supernova, or wake up in the morning and we have a dead sun....Either way I am sure a demoncrat with a new tax will solve it all straight away !

[Myrddin]

I've heard the Honolulu 146 04/64 traffic in San Diego where the Otay Mountain repeater shares the same split. I've had opportunities to work San Diego to Santa Barbara on 146.52 with a 1 watt Standard HT fitted with a rubber duck antenna. It was neat to hear traffic from the space station when it was passing over San Franciso.

After moving to Idaho, I upgraded my license to Extra Class. That said, I'm hardly on the air anymore. By 1985 I had moved to principal operation on 2m packet. My wife and I work ARES, RACES and Animal Rescue Reserve assignments when needed.

[JRandomFreeper]

I packed my radios up when I deployed after 9/11/01, and I'm just getting back to setting up a station. CW is a joy, but I REQUIRE a DSP filter to be able to copy. (and it's good I'm single, because the volume stays high). Hearing loss sucks when you are single, not so bad when married.

The nice thing about Amateur Radio is the niches we can find. Sad part is the low solar minimum.

That said, this weekend, I did hear Italy, Canada, lots of little former soviet countries, both US coasts, and copied the ARRL bulletin from Connecticut 10 over S9 with a G5RV up about 34 feet.

/johnny

[familyop]

"Summer here in LA is about normal. Perhaps a tad more humid than usual."

The last couple of winters at over 9,000 feet in the central Rockies have been delayed by about a month. But it was much wetter in the intermontane basins (like dry prairies between ranges) over the past two winters.

[P-Marlowe]

To add to the uncertainty, no one knows how long the Sun is likely to stay quiet.

For all we know Sunspots may have ceased permanently. In a couple of years we could be burning all the fossil fuels we can just to stop Global Icing.