Clear link between solar activity and winter weather revealed (Why 'minimums' are cold)

PhysOrg.com ^ | Tamera Jones | Oct 10, 2011

[ConservativeMind]

Another study shows that a lack of sunspots assures colder weather.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Hacklehead]

Duh

[Parley Baer]

Wow, the sun effects are weather and temperatures. I mean who knew. Bwahahahaha. Calling Algore.

[MichaelP]

So variations in the Sun's radiant energy warms or cools the Earth.... Hmmm! You need a PHD to know those things!

Mike

[samtheman]

You mean the sun affects the weather?

I thought the only person who that that was that crackpot nutcase Fred Thompson back in the last election.

/s

Seriously, Fred did run an internet ad back in 2008 poking fun at the idea that the sun DOESN’T affect the weather.

[American Constitutionalist]

But the Global Warming Hoax prognosticators are now saying that Sun activity has nothing to do with our weather here and cutting CO2 needs to continue.

[spawn44]

Every socialist anti american democrat who were so easily led by their idealogical noses into pushing the AGW/IPCC CO2 grant fraud on the american people should be bitch slapped and then procesuted for taxpayer fraud.

[buffaloguy]

Interesting. We have known this for 150 years. Guess it took a long time for them to catch up to high school level science.

Sheesh......

[Iron Munro]

Clear link between solar activity and winter weather revealed

Why we need experts: To spend years validating what most people instinctively know.

[WOBBLY BOB]

it’s another gubmint jobs program that creates perpetual jobs for the perpetual crisis .

[Da Coyote]

“So variations in the Sun’s radiant energy warms or cools the Earth.... Hmmm! You need a PHD to know those things!”

Obviously a PhD in “climate science” ain’t sufficient. :-)

Thankfully, real physicists are finally getting into the act - since the “need a government research grant” climate “scientists” are totally ruining the name.

[SuzyQue]

“...low solar activity can contribute to cold winters in the UK, northern Europe and parts of America. But high activity from the sun has the opposite effect...”

Astounding!

Not.

[TStro]

It goes to more than this. The solar wind is driven by sunspots. A lack of sunspots, low solar wind, will let more cosmic rays hit our atmosphere. Several scientists (including CERN most recently) have proven this leads to increased cloud formation, and thus lower temps. This is what lead to the Little Ice Age.

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[PapaBear3625]

It seems that in years of low UV activity, unusually cold air forms over the tropics in the stratosphere, about 50 kilometres up. This is balanced by a more easterly flow of air over the mid latitudes – a pattern which then makes its way down to the Earth's surface, bringing easterly winds and cold winters to northern Europe. But when solar activity is higher than usual – around the peak of the 11-year solar cycle – the opposite happens: strong westerly winds bring warm air and so milder winters to Europe.

The upper-atmosphere's Ozone Layer absorbs much of the UV the sun sends us. In the process, the UV heats the upper atmosphere.

[VeniVidiVici]

[PapaBear3625]

The solar wind is driven by sunspots. A lack of sunspots, low solar wind, will let more cosmic rays hit our atmosphere.

More precisely, the number of sunspots correlate with the strength of the solar magnetic field, which affects a number of things.

[FreeAtlanta]

New study shows we now produce the dumbest scientist since the dark ages.

Where have the knuckleheads been hiding their heads? The bigger 600 year solar cycle is the more dangerous cycle. It is one that causes famine and ice covered farm lands. Add in some extra volcanic activity and we have real trouble.

I proposed a theory to a friend that maybe the solar and volcanic cycles could be the result of some cyclic galactic event. He thought I had cracked, but it is as good as any theory at this point.

Remember you heard it here first! Doug’s Theory! :-)

[ArmstedFragg]

I think they may be on to something. I’ve noticed that every time the sun moves to the other side of the equator it becomes winter.