Say Goodbye to Sunspots? (Goodbye, global warming; hello, little ice age)

Science Now ^ | 09/14/2010 | Phil Berardelli

[dragnet2]

You bet....Even Bush moved back to the city....

[wxgesr]

How do we know this isn’t in the same league as “glaciers will melt by 2035?”

After all, no one really knows.....

[OB1kNOb]

Hot or cold? Hot or cold? Which is it gonna be? Sounds like mother Earth is going through menopause..........

[fwdude]

Did you also lose your magnetic attraction?

Oh, I guess THAT's the problem. Also, my increase in planetary mass.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Pyro7480.

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[SunkenCiv]

Wow, that’s great...

[knews_hound]

Same here in Sacramento.

We can usually count on weeks of +100 temps to really enjoy our pool.  This year, we got only 5 or 6 days of really hot weather.

I jokingly told my wife I was going to rig up a solar heater and she always laughed at me.

This year she has been asking what it would cost to build and run.

Go figure.

Cheers,

knewshound

http://www.knewshound.blogspot.com/

[Impy]

Boy it’s gonna suck being hot and cold at the same time.

[musicman]

Thanks!

[musicman]

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

[neverdem]

Enlarge Image

Weaklings. Without penumbrae, which can be seen in the yellow image, today's sunspots are weakening magnetically.

Credit: William Livingston/NSO

Long-term Evolution of Sunspot Magnetic Fields

[Nowhere Man]

Well, there goes 10 and 6 meter DX down the crapper. B-P BTW, during the Maunder Minimum, had their been amateur radio and other HF communications, the Maximum Usable Frequency might have been around 4000 kc (80/75 meters) or even, worse, 2000 kc (160 meters). I’m sure the late Stew Perry (1904-1990), W1BB, would love that, he was deeply into 160 meters. Long distance daytime DX communications would not exist and you would have to wait until nightfall to communicate long distances.

[Nowhere Man]

This is not good. By 2026, famine may be widespread.

Dang, I feel humbled since I was only concerned about the affect this will have on amateur radio and shortwave radio. B-P

[The4thHorseman]

Well howdy fellow Sacramentan!

We’ve got solar for our pool and it’s still not warm enough for what I consider optimum swimming temperature (84 degrees—yes, I’m a wimp).

Funny that when I was a kid I remember making fun of an older cousin who wouldn’t swim until the pool was 80; now I consider that a little on the cold side. Ah the joys of getting older! :-)

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Instead of heating the pool, get a short sleeve or sleeve less 3mm wetsuit, you will be surprised how comfortable it makes it.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Very important report. I believe this finding explains White House panic:

White House Science Czar: “’Global Warming’ is a Dangerous Misnomer”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2590115/posts
[Cool down the “warming” con and shift to “climate change” con.]

[ModelBreaker]

“Everyone knows that SUVs warm the earth, not the sun.”

Actually, SUV’s warm the sun, which then warms the earth. The physical mechanism is a little unclear—but scientists have proven by consensus that American excess is the very powerful sixth force in nature. IT’s actually one of the six fundamental forces of the universe and binds quarks to higgs bosons at nanoscales. So that probably has something to do with it. Those SUV suckers are just loaded with quarks and bosons.

[ModelBreaker]

“Any chance we can tax our way out of the 2012 galactic alignment?”

Zero says we can tax and spend our way out of anything. Just look at the jobs saved. Slagging the alignment should be pippyshit compared to rolling back the seas, don’t you think?

[mbynack]

Sounds like “String Theory”. Everything is connected.