[Crazieman]

Yeah they counted a group of sunspots that didn’t even break the surface. It was pathetic. The only thing you could make out were slight magnetic distortions on the surface. There were NO sunspots.

When they were on the verge of breaking a long sunspotless streak, suddenly news came out they had to revise the streak because a microspot was detected several weeks before while reexamining data and photos.

They’re desperate to show activity.

[PreciousLiberty]

“Yeah they counted a group of sunspots that didn’t even break the surface. It was pathetic. The only thing you could make out were slight magnetic distortions on the surface. There were NO sunspots.”

They were marginal at best. The first “groups” looked like dark spots in faculae rather than true sunspots. I don’t believe they showed up in “white light” projections either, which were used by everyone until the 20th Century, IIRC. Here are good links to such imagery from Australia:

http://www.ips.gov.au/Solar/2/7
http://www.ips.gov.au/Images/Solar/Culgoora%20Observatory/White%20Light%20Image/culgoora_raw_wl.jpg

There’s an “International Sunspot Number” run out of Belgium. That site only updates after the month is over, I’ll be interested to see if they count any of this activity. They’re more conservative than NASA as to what “counts”.

http://sidc.oma.be/products/ri_hemispheric/

[Thermalseeker]

They’re desperate to show activity.

I wonder if this desperation is to justify their funding, or if they know this spells the end to the "globull warming" movement because it will usher in dramatic, planet wide cooling, or ???

[gusopol3]

Now why would the sunspot counters be in the tank for the global warmers? Just asking.

[1010RD]

If not, then that correlation between the warmining/cooling of the earth and sunspots might look true. Sunspots must be found so they can save mankind the planet for themselves.

The rest of us will be bringing warming blankets and hot cocoa to their beach-side Florida cabanas, under threat of death.