Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Slowest hurricane season in 30 years.
So what was it? Year six of the global warming alarmists predicting an active hurricane season? One year they will be correct just by chance. This reminds me of the climate change cult ignoring the fact that global temperature have been flat for 16 years now. All the while China has been growing by 15-20% a year and pumping out more and more greenhouse gases.
Better Luck next year.
P.S. The ice cap in Antarctica is largest ever and the ice cap in the Arctic has rebounded. Meanwhile, windfarms are decimating migrating birds, bats, eagles, hawks.
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Your sounding decidedly eco friendly these days Live..... to add to your list of 'high fliers' that have hit the ground with a thud....
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The sunspots appear in roughly 11-year cycles - increasing to a daily flurry and then subsiding drastically, before amping up again.
DeleteBut this cycle - dubbed cycle 24 - has surprised scientists with its sluggishness.
The number of spots counted since it began in December 2008 is well below the average observed over the last 250 years. In fact, it's less than half.
"It is the weakest cycle the sun has been in for all the space age, for 50 years," National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association physicist Doug Biesecker told AFP.
In the first year of the cycle, during which solar activity should have risen, astronomers counted 266 days without a single sun spot.
"The forecast peak was 90 sunspots," Biesecker said, noting that even though the activity has risen over the past year, "it's very clear it is not going to be close to 90."
"The sunspots number peaked last year at 67, almost half a typical cycle," he added.
The last time a sunspot cycle was this slow was in February 1906, the peak of cycle 14, with just 64 spots a day.
But scientists are watching the sun carefully to see whether cycle 24 is going to be an aberration - or if this solar calmness is going to stretch through the next cycle as well.
"We won't know that for another good three or four years," said Biesecker.
Some researchers speculate this could be the start of a prolonged period of weak solar activity.
The last time that happened, during the so-called "Maunder Minimum" between 1650 and 1715, almost no sunspots were observed. During the same period, temperatures dropped sharply on Earth, sparking what is called the "Little Ice Age" in Europe and North America.
As the sunspot numbers continue to stay low, it's possible the Earth's climate is being affected again.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=11162126
Can we possibly get Algore to look at this and blame the proper parties?
Times of depressed solar activity seem to correspond with times of global cold. For example, during the 70-year period from 1645 to 1715, few, if any, sunspots were seen, even during expected sunspot maximums. Western Europe entered a climate period known as the "Maunder Minimum" or "Little Ice Age." Temperatures dropped by 1.8 to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit.
ReplyDeleteConversely, times of increased solar activity have corresponded with global warning. During the 12th and 13th centuries, the Sun was active, and the European climate was quite mild.
Yearly-averaged sunspot numbers from 1610 to 2008. Researchers believe upcoming Solar Cycle 24 will be similar to the cycle that peaked in 1928.. Credit: NASA/MSFC