[PreciousLiberty]

Cycle 24 may be underway but that is no guarantee that solar activity will pick up soon. At the moment the Sun is back to a blank slate. This astronomer has been cheerleading for Cycle 24 since over a year ago. Regardless, Cycle 23 was quite long and weak, and Cycle 24 is forecast to be even more so. There is also the issue of rising sunspot core temperature independent of cycle according to astronomers at the National Solar Observatory:

http://www.astroengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/livingston-penn_sunspots2.pdf

I remain concerned that the "sunspot numbers" reported at spaceweather.com (NASA's solar weather site) are a bit inflated compared to historical numbers.

[gusopol3]

quick hypothesis with regard to earth temps, please, if you’re into that ?

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[gridlock]

NASA has their fingers crossed and crossed again that this is the minimum, because global temperatures are going to make them look pretty silly if they keep falling.

Of course, they have not figured out yet that cheerleading has little effect on sunspot activity.

[StatenIsland]

I love science in general, cosmology and astronomy in particular, but doesn’t it seem kind of strange to be talking about 11-year cycles in a star that is 4.5 billion years old?

*sigh* Anyway, I just turned 57.

[muawiyah]

The top gurus of Global Warming were telling us MORE THAN 2 YEARS AGO that Cycle 24 would begin year before last and would be the biggest sunspot cycle in history.

So far they've been really, really, really wrong.

Gonna' be a cold winter Fur Shur. Lake Michigan will freeze over like it hasn't done for 30 years, and large sheets will cover Lake Shore Drive and cause regular problems on the parallel Interstate a few blocks to the West.

Obama will declare a National Emergency to "save Chicago from the Lake".

[SunkenCiv]

The Sun Shows Signs of Life
NASA | 11-07-08 | unknown
Posted on 11/09/2008 3:07:20 PM PST by steveo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2129014/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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