[aruanan]

Note in the replies that of the poor English cleric near the top.

[pricilla]

Czcibor,Czeslaw,Dariusz & Grzegorz???

[the invisib1e hand]

How bad can it be?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Keep your tires inflated - that should ward off any ill effects.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[KoRn]

/mark

[P.O.E.]

[CrazyIvan]

Quad polar dissorder?

[Clara Lou]

Well, then, thank goodness for global warming, eh?

[cripplecreek]

The sun is a tangled magnetic mass of multiple poles.

[PapaBear3625]

Solar cycle 24 has definitely been doing odd things. It’s looking more and more like it’s going to be a shallow cycle. Not Maunder minimum (where sunspot activity ceased for decades), but maybe a Dalton-type Minimum.

[Calusa]

cherry blossoms bloomed later than usual in Kyoto.

four-pole magnetic structureWhy not n+1 poles

an infinite number of poles

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Who do these clowns think they are?

The scientific consensus is that CO₂ heats the earth, not the sun.

Get with the program, you idiots.

[mikrofon]

%%
It’s just another mimic Maunder
Pole moves on the Sun there
Cause our rain & thunder
So we don’t have to wonder,
It’s just another mimic Maunder...
%%

[Bubba_Leroy]

Bush’s fault.

[Aunt Polgara]

We're all gonna DIE!!!

[COBOL2Java]

Officials of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and the Riken research foundation said on April 19 that the activity of sunspots appeared to resemble a 70-year period in the 17th century in which London’s Thames froze over and cherry blossoms bloomed later than usual in Kyoto.

[aruanan]

Well, I can't get that part with the reader comment to load. The guy says that solar activity doesn't account for warming. I wanted to respond with, "For the claim that the sun can't account for warming: "What is the difference between average daytime and nighttime temperatures during any particular season and similar meteorological conditions and what is the causal factor most responsible for making that difference?"

Okay, so we can posit the sun as being responsible for over 30 degree shifts of temperature in the course of 24 hours (or 90 degrees over the course of a Martian day) but we can't posit that changes in solar output could be responsible for changes of fractions of a degree up or down in global temperature averages over the course of a century? One degree F over the course of about a century (1880 to 1998) is about 3% of the change in temperature that is normally seen over the course of a day. And when we see the same phenomenon occurring on several different planets, the cause on all isn't going to be due to unique conditions on one.

[Don Corleone]

“Al Gore...Mr Al Gore...please pick up the white courtesy phone.”

[The Duke]

The sun may be entering a period of reduced activity that could result in lower temperatures on Earth,...

This has that George W. Bush's fingerprints all over it!!!