[rdl6989]

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[JRandomFreeper]

I don't know, but I damn sure know that the lack of sunspots is hampering DX worldwide. CQ, CQ, CQ 6 meters....

/johnny

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The remarkable William (Wilhelm) Herschel was the first to notice a correlation between sunspot number and wheat prices. He used wheat prices as a surrogate for solar output.

[WHBates]

"The year 2008 saw the sun with its lowest number of sunspots for any year in a century. This only fueled the speculation of an impending global cooling scenario."

Must be all of the CO2 we're spewing, good thing the Democrat's are going to turn thing around with the Cap & Trade bill. /s (if required)

[Steamburg]

Only since the last Ice Age or two or three...

[justa-hairyape]

It may be a moot point anyway: the solar trend has ramped markedly upward since May 2009 with more and more sunspots erupting on the solar sphere.

Moot point ? Sunspots show up for two days and now the past 2 years of inactivity can just be ignored because there are a moot point ? Are you leftist really this stupid ? We are going to have one of our worse winters in the Northern Hemisphere most of us have ever experienced. Solar activity needs to increase dramatically and even then it will be too late for this winter.

[muawiyah]

More and more Sunspots have not been popping up. We just had the first one everybody would agree really is a Sunspot TODAY and this is July.

The other items were just very tiny magnetic storms ~ NASA couldn't even determine if they wer eassociated with Solarcycle 23 or Solarcycle 24.

Astronomers and Sunspot fans have all gotten into referring into the imaginary NASA Sunspots as "the official Sunspots".

[Kozak]

It may be a moot point anyway: the solar trend has ramped markedly upward since May 2009 with more and more sunspots erupting on the solar sphere.

Oh brother. There have been a handful of sunspots. And we are again in a 10 day spotless streak. NO evidence the solar activity is on the rise.