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All Solar, Et Al, In 12 Years?

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Hurricane Patricia became the strongest storm ever measured on the planet early Friday, with experts warning it could trigger 40-foot waves along southwestern Mexico and "life-threatening" flash flooding.

First time for everything. Needless to say, this storm was caused by CO2 made by man.
 
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What do you make of it?

A pregnant woman in labor with

twins and this is the heart monitors readout?

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What do you make of it?

A pregnant woman in labor with

twins and this is the heart monitors readout?


Yeah, but what about the billion people and two billion cows all passing gas? Huh, Huh, what about all of that? Did you take the AI class?


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:rof:

I think we solved the global warming issue.

It's a combination of beans and alcohol.

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Break out a DCF. We'll fix this mess.

I can't wait to see how much polar ice we get this winter, since they are measuring max ice in July.

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National Geographic

Sun Headed Into Hibernation, Solar Studies Predict


Three independent studies of the sun's insides, surface, and upper atmosphere all predict that the next solar cycle will be significantly delayed—if it happens at all. Normally, the next cycle would be expected to start roughly around 2020.

The combined data indicate that we may soon be headed into what's known as a grand minimum, a period of unusually low solar activity.

The predicted solar "sleep" is being compared to the last grand minimum on record, which occurred between 1645 and 1715.

The mini ice age, :rof: So much for those solar panels.

Known as the Maunder Minimum, the roughly 70-year period coincided with the coldest spell of the Little Ice Age, when European canals regularly froze solid and Alpine glaciers encroached on mountain villages.
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"We have some interesting hints that solar activity is associated with climate, but we don't understand the association," said Dean Pesnell, project scientist for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).

Also, even if there is a climate link, Pesnell doesn't think another grand minimum is likely to trigger a cold snap.

"With what's happening in current times—we've added considerable amounts of carbon dioxide and methane and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere," said Pesnell, who wasn't involved in the suite of new sun studies.

"I don't think you'd see the same cooling effects today if the sun went into another Maunder Minimum-type behavior."


This article PUBLISHED Tue Jun 14 22:06:00 EDT 2011, and 2014 we had the greatest amount of artic ice :whistle:

Sunspots Losing Strength


Sunspots are cool, dark blemishes visible on the sun's surface that indicate regions of intense magnetic activity.

For centuries scientists have been using sunspots—some of which can be wider than Earth—to track the sun's magnetic highs and lows.

For instance, 17th-century astronomers Galileo Galilei and Giovanni Cassini separately tracked sunspots and noticed a lack of activity during the Maunder Minimum.

In the 1800s scientists recognized that sunspots come and go on a regular cycle that lasts about 11 years. We're now in Solar Cycle 24, heading for a maximum in the sun's activity sometime in 2013.

Somebody dig up Galileo's work and see if we are in a period of global warming or global cooling.


Recently, the National Solar Observatory's Matt Penn and colleagues analyzed more than 13 years of sunspot data collected at the McMath-Pierce Telescope at Kitt Peak, Arizona.

They noticed a long-term trend of sunspot weakening, and if the trend continues, the sun's magnetic field won't be strong enough to produce sunspots during Solar Cycle 25, Penn and colleagues predict.

:eek: Maybe it's because of CO2


"The dark spots are getting brighter," Penn said today during a press briefing. Based on their data, the team predicts that, by the time it's over, the current solar cycle will have been "half as strong as Cycle 23, and the next cycle may have no sunspots at all."

Maybe the sun is dying.

According to Hill, their data suggest that the start of Solar Cycle 25 may be delayed until 2022—about two years late—or the cycle may simply not happen.

Adding to the evidence, Richard Altrock, manager of the U.S. Air Force's coronal research program for the National Solar Observatory (NSO), has observed telltale changes in a magnetic phenomenon in the sun's corona—its faint upper atmosphere.]

Instead, he said, the unusual changes to the sun's activity cycles offer an unprecedented opportunity for scientists to test theories about how the sun makes and destroys its magnetic field.

"Right now we have so many sun-watching satellites and advanced ground-based observatories ready to spring into action," Pesnell said. "If the sun is going to do something different, this is a great time for it to happen."
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...bernation-solar-cycle-sunspots-space-science/


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Sunspot Number

Since July 1st 2015, the original Sunspot number data are replaced by a new entirely revised data series. On this occasion, the data are presented in a new array of files, containing additional values that were not present in the original series. For proper tracking of those changes, the present version is numbered 2.0. All files are now labeled with their version number. The past version, now numbered 1.0, remains accessible for reference in our new Version Archive section. In addition to the Sunspot Number data, we now also distribute the new Group Number series, accessible in a dedicated section. Further information can be found at the bottom of this page.

Each file can be downloaded by clicking on the grey button corresponding to the chosen format. All files are in ASCII text and can be opened in any text editor. CSV files allow direct import in various applications, like spreadsheets.

Data Credits: The Sunspot Number data can be freely downloaded. However, we request that proper credit to the WDC-SILSO is explicitely included in any publication using our data (paper article or book, on-line Web content, etc.), e.g.: "Source: WDC-SILSO, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels".

http://www.sidc.be/silso/datafiles

The GD solar system better get in line with our global warming, or we'll just change all the numbers!

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