Closeups of Sol

0 responses to “Closeups of Sol”

1. Veeshir | April 22, 2010 at 11:56 am |

   Cool pics.
   It made me realize I hadn’t checked sunspots in a month or so.
   There were a bunch in March, there was one this month from the 7th to today and there have been none for about a week.

   Perhaps the Sun just snored for a few weeks and it’s back to sleep.

2. Veeshir | April 22, 2010 at 12:48 pm |

   I just looked at your “World Climate Widget”.
   Bwahahahahahahahah. I love the way they put their ‘trend’line in the data.

   To the left it’s below the valleys, to the right it’s above the peaks.

3. Dick Stanley | April 22, 2010 at 1:33 pm |

   That’s the CO2 line, showing that the ppm has risen since 1979. I don’t see a ‘trend’ line there at all. You should click on the widget. It’s produced by Watts Up With That, which is a global warming critic. They explain the widget this way: “This experimental widget uses the UAH lower troposphere temperature data as well as the Mauna Loa CO2 data combined with NOAA SWPC solar information.”

4. Veeshir | April 22, 2010 at 2:01 pm |

   Ahhh, it looked to me as if the line was “fitted” to the graph.

   In other words, I thought they just drew it so it would go up regardless of what’s happening.
   You know, the way global warmmongers usually act.

   I’m wondering what the deal is with the Sun though.
   It started starting and then it just stopped. For most of March there were multiple sunspots pretty much every day, now there’s none and it just stopped.

   Weird.

5. Veeshir | April 22, 2010 at 2:09 pm |

   Oopes, meant to say…
   I thought it was odd you had that graph, I should have looked closer before commenting.

   I’m all excited, my parents moved a while ago so I had to get my old books out of their basement so I have my Zane Grey books I haven’t seen in 20+ years.
   I re-read “Robber’s Roost” about 2 months ago so it’s fresh in my mind and I see the movie is on Encore’s Western Channel.
   Most Zane Grey movies are pretty good. Like Western Union, that’s a ‘velcro’ movie for me, I’ll watch it whenever it’s on.

6. Dick Stanley | April 22, 2010 at 5:17 pm |

   I don’t know what’s happening with the sun. I expect the recent flurry of spots means a return to normal. Assuming normal has flurries and droughts followed by more of the same.