Posted on 08/03/2013 10:07:08 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Winter is coming.
How does one go about predicting sun spot activity? How far do records go back and how reliable are they?
Time to start stockpiling dragon glass.
Struggling along? What does that mean?
Further, the sun gets no appreciation whatsoever from its customers. Not only do we smear ourselves in oil to avoid its healing rays but we don sunglasses to block it out. As Rodney Dangerfield would say, no respect, I get no respect at all.
I would be pissed off too if I was the sun.
Gee, who would have thought that hydrogen furnace in the sky would have anything to do with temperatures on earth?
Check this out...
They go back a LONG ways (to Galeleo in 1610). Although I’m not sure if things are adjusted to take into account our better telescopes - and better satelites. :)
But the cycle is only 11 years, so LOTS of cycles to look at. Here is some old information with some good charts - but ends in 2000.
http://www.intellicast.com/Community/Content.aspx?a=130
“But dat lucky ol’ sun got nuttin to do but roll around heaven all day.”
“But that lucky old sun got nothing to do but roll around heaven all day.”
Don’t tell Hank Johnson (the Guam is tipping over Senator) about this he may think it’s a good idea to create a sun tax to ease the sun’s struggle.
Have to say, one can imagine the advent of the next ice age in the mythic terms of G of T, sans the White Walkers. Though I suppose polar bears roaming Manhattan (no longer an) island in search of fresh meat would be an adequate substitute for even those elements of the story.
Massive solar flare narrowly misses Earth, EMP disaster barely avoided
The trend for the last three cycles is down.
Theoritically, you can actually quantify the direct affect the solar cycle has on Earth's biospheric temperature. To do that however, requires a little bit more thoughtful analysis and more accurate metrics then apes currently are capable of performing. And the rest of the galaxy is no doubt thankful for that (channeling Douglas Adams there :>)
That story was a lie.
That story was disinformation. An excuse to trot out EMP warning messages. There were no X class flares in the time frame referenced by the fake scare story. We do need to prepare. The threat is real.
For us Amateur Radio folks, this cycle has been a near non event.
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