Sun’s bizarre activity may trigger another ice age

Irish Times ^ | Jul 12, 2013 | Dick Ahlstrom

[spokeshave]

What’s the activity for the last 10-12 years? And years forward, what do you predict? That’s what I’m interested in. We already know the mid to recent past actvity.

Sun's 2013 Solar Activity Peak Is Weakest in 100 Years by Megan Gannon, News Editor

July 12, 2013 01:00pm ET - See more at: http://www.space.com/21937-sun-solar-weather-peak-is-weak.html#sthash.f384w5N4.dpuf

Though the sun is currently in the peak year of its 11-year solar weather cycle, our closest star has been rather quiet over all, scientists say.

This year's solar maximum is shaping up to be the weakest in 100 years and the next one could be even more quiescent, scientists said Thursday (July 11).

"It's the smallest maximum we've seen in the Space Age," David Hathaway of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., told reporters in a teleconference. [Solar Max: Amazing Sun Storm Photos of 2013]

- See more at: http://www.space.com/21937-sun-solar-weather-peak-is-weak.html#sthash.f384w5N4.dpuf

[spokeshave]

Ha...note the last graph...the ACTUAL sunspot number is trending down FASTER than the predicted curve (in red for those in Rio Vista)....and its instantaneous value at last actual reading is 2/3 of that predicted.

[freebilly]

I could use an ice age. It was 112 degrees here in Lake County last week....

[logi_cal869]

It’s not the sun, stoopid, cain’t you read? It’s thet Carbone Deoxide we be schuckin’.

(Or so say those that think they’re smarter than the rest of us that think Texas might need a secure frontier on both the southern AND Northern borders).

A reckoning will come one day when libtards will wear a scarlet letter and be reminded of this decade in ways we can only now imagine.

[huldah1776]

I was just thinking that they must have gotten a heads up on this report and then ordered the publicity that the CIA was going to control the weather. it gets cooler, the CIA has done its job and saved the world from Global warming.

[meadsjn]

Practically everyone on earth will be dead in a hundred years, naturally.

Liberals and other commies aren't satisified with natural attrition. They want to exterminate large bunches of people RIGHT NOW, just because "somebody ought to do something!" about whatever.

Ironically, so very few of them bite the bullet first. Such is the genocidal mindset.

[KGeorge]

Man, I hate the cold! If it gets too hot, you can at least get wet. If it’s too cold, it’s just too bad.

[familyop]

Thanks, neverdem. The mentions of an “ice age” of any kind are misleading because of popular images about such periods being disseminated for effect on readers. The recent extended minimums don’t come near fitting those images.

Minimums like the one we’re in tend to bring slightly more extreme fluctuations than usual toward both hot and cold but mostly toward cold. With the magnetic north polar shift toward Russia, the situation is interesting (temporarily less protection from rays, increases in storm activity, etc.). The increased cover from recent volcanism also adds to the nature of the current weather trends (slower evaporation, resulting lack of condensation and so on).

We’re already near the Dalton low and likely descending from here. I’m at about 9,200 feet, just on the east side of some higher peaks, and see more radical fluctuations than folks at lower elevations. Quite a few more nights between -20 and -39 F last winter and looking forward to increased adventure next winter (for many, maybe propane tanks—majority aboveground here, stopping production at -44 F, interesting water system problems, vehicles, etc).

So yes, due to the hyberbolic and otherwise misconstrued information about extended minimums, there will probably be some sudden surprises for most folks in northern parts of the USA (radical fluctuations). The events probably won’t be very noticeable for most people in the southern half (colder winters, ongoing trend in storm activities, continuing summer hotspots).

There are still ice packs on many of the peaks from 11,000 ft. and up as seen from here. Yes, glaciers. Run for your lives. [Little humor there.]

[tet68]

And while the researchers in the US said the data showed a decline in activity, they had no way to predict what that might mean for the future.

And yet, if it was an incline it would mean global warming
and we should all change our lifestyles...

[gotribe]

I’m okay with that, always wanted to hunt mammoths.

[WVKayaker]

So moving to the Philippines could be a good thing.

I made that move in late February!It's almost 7pm now, and still 85 F. I could use some "cooling"!

[listenhillary]

If the SHTF, some say the colder climates will be largely untouched. Rioting, parkas and gloves just don’t go together.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

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[Resolute Conservative]

That would be awesome. I prefer cold to the 100+ we see here.

[RipSawyer]

Are we going to be having winter olympics in the cradle of the confederacy?

[neverdem]

Let’s just hope that thing doesn’t kill us.

IMHO, only an unmitigated disaster could destroy the left's pretensions of being the pro science party, and that it cares for the little guy, the working class, the middle class, etc. They only care about power!

[SparkyBass]

Neat movie...

[Black Agnes]

Ice ages are also linked to increased volcanic activity. What kind of mountain is that in the distance?

[Billthedrill]

“It all points to perhaps another little ice age,” he said.

Holy CARP! Global Warming is gonna freeze us all ta death!

We should send a mission to the sun to investigate - oh, yeah, I know it's hot there, so we'll do it at night.

[WVKayaker]

The Philippines is an archipelago of more than 7100 islands. Most of these islands are of volcanic origin. There are 37 volcanoes in the Philippines, of which 18 are still active volcanoes. It means that an eruption occurred in the last decennia and that a new eruption can be expected in the future. All the other volcanoes are 'sleeping' or 'dead' volcanoes. Scientists think that an eruption of these volcanoes is unlikely. The most known volcanoes in the Philippines are Mount Pinatubo, Mount Mayon and the Taal volcano. They are all located on the Northern island Luzon. ...

I have a boat!