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The feds: behind the curve as usual

Posted on February 18, 2014 | 7 comments

Seventeen “years with no global warming and recent very cold winters is a troubling trend, which if it continues will result in serious problems for humanity. This will be especially true if the current obsession with global warming continues, leaving the public unprepared for cold weather events.

“Of particular concern are the warnings from solar scientists that over the next three decades, we are headed toward significant global cooling as the sun weakens into a grand minimum.”

So, instead of relying on our hapless bureaucrats and corrupt political leadership—who want to close coal-fired power plants to stop the global warming that’s already stopped on its own—it’s time for “the public” to get its own act together: plan on colder winters and adjust accordingly.

Via PJMedia.

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Sleepy sun awakening

Posted on January 15, 2010 | Comments Off on Sleepy sun awakening

Or so it has seemed since sunspots began returning back in December. Too late, apparently, to hinder the Arctic cold snap that put much of the northern hemisphere in the deep freeze until recently.

If, that is, you accept the cosmic ray theory of climate change. Many scientists don’t. Meanwhile the  sunwatchers among them also aren’t ready to declare the end of the solar minimum just yet. In the last few years, the sun has amply proved how little we know about its behavior.

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Solar cycle 24 is getting weird

Posted on October 15, 2009 | Comments Off on Solar cycle 24 is getting weird

Comparing the previous solar minimum (June ’96 to Sept. ’98) with the current one (June ’07 to Sept ’09) shows something strange is happening to Sol. (Scroll down at the link to the yellow-headlined comparison "latest trend charts" on the right side for the chart of the spotless days in each period). Not that solar science has enough observation history behind it to be sure of much of anything.

Meanwhile, the weather is confirming the old idea that Sol controls what happens down here. When you consider that 1998 was the warmest year recorded globally, and the planet has been cooling ever since, it’s not hard to understand why winters are coming earlier and part of the country’s northern tier already is covered with snow that is not melting but is increasing. Not that we mind the rain we’re getting after our long drought, but you have to wonder. Whatever is going on it seems to have very little to do with the CO2 that has the Democrats hot to tax coal and oil out of existence.

Via the Seablogger. PLUS: Record October cold in Minnesota.

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Cosmic ray storm

Posted on September 29, 2009 | Comments Off on Cosmic ray storm

Sol’s protracted solar minimum, which began about 2007, has opened the inner solar system to the highest concentration of cosmic rays yet measured during the space age (about fifty years old).

Which should provide a good test of Danish scientist Henrik Svensmark’s theory that cosmic rays provide seed nuclei for the low-altitude clouds that keep Earth’s temperature low. The theory is an alternative to the carbon dioxide argument, in that fewer cosmic rays hitting Earth would mean fewer low-level clouds and thus correspondingly higher temperatures. If Svensmark’s theory–explained in his 2008 book The Chilling Stars–is correct, winters could become more severe. At least until Sol’s minimum turns back to maximum.

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What’s Up With The Sun?

Posted on July 11, 2008 | Comments Off on What’s Up With The Sun?

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It’s been strangely unmarked by sun spots or solar flares lately. Or is it so strange? NASA says not.

UPDATE:  The Seablogger disagrees and says the next Ice Age is "imminent."

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