September 15, 2010

Baby it's cold outside

Saw this via the Puppy Blender.
Sunspot activity isn't really getting better. It's more active than last year, but still a minimum.
According to the article, the minimum has been for 26 months, normal ones are about 16 months.
Some scientists are measuring magnetic activity in the sunspots. That's been going down steadily.
Now, they're predicting that by 2016 there wouldn't be enough magnetism to sustain sunspots. That seems almost like reverse-global warmmongers. Looking at a trend and assuming it'll continue that way and then WE ALL DIE!!!!!!, except this time from the coming ice age, not from bursting into flames.
At least they note that there's no proof the trend will continue in a straight line graph, but...
There is precedent for the Sun shutting down, the "Little Ice Age" a few hundred years ago, and, of course, the Earth's climate has gone up and down for as long as there's been an Earth.
I have to admit, I'm rooting for the global warmmongers because I really hate the cold, I just prefer my science to have a basis in fact and not endlessly subject to "correction" when you get caught. 

Posted by: Veeshir at 07:42 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment
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1 Hey Veeshir... SPOT on (nyuk nyuk). I'm all for global warming as well, but if we're really serious about it we're going to need more water vapor.

Posted by: the botnet at September 15, 2010 09:41 PM (pvpGl)

2 They've rebranded themselves under "Climate Change" so now anything outside of a very narrow definition of "normal" is now "proof" of AGWCC.  Thankfully the cause (global capitalism) hasn't changed and the solution is still global communism.

Posted by: Mitchell at September 15, 2010 10:43 PM (TWB//)

3 As a physicist (who became an engineer so he could actually put food on the table), I can tell you outright that any astrophysicist that claims he can tell what the Sun is going to do 7 years from now is drinking the bong water.

In  my graduate courses in engineering they let me sneak in a couple stellar structure and evolution classes to satisfy electives.  Yeah.  Stare at the Sun long enough and you just go blind.  Ask Newton.

Posted by: tangonine at September 15, 2010 11:56 PM (C8Pcc)

4 The problem of global warming has been last for along time. It is more serious day by day. Actually, we have think about this very seriously. but nothing change. we have to face with that, and never know what will happen.

Posted by: Metalsguru at September 16, 2010 04:50 AM (wTZk3)

5 words said by spambot.  Taken make sense together.  Structure grammar bizarre.  Wrong, course.  Of but spambot still.

Naked ladies more of please.

Posted by: MikeD at September 16, 2010 09:34 AM (FkL60)

6 As a physicist/engineer, I'd have hoped that you would know that it wasn't Newton who went blind from studying the sun.  In fact, no great scientist ever went blind from studying the sun.  The claim was the Galileo Galilee went blind because he studied the sun too long, but his blindness took him over 25 years after he stopped studying it.  His blindness was caused by cataracts, which may or may not have been the result of his sun study.  Being as he was 72 years old when he contracted cataracts, which was downright ancient back int he 1600s, I think it was just because he was damned old.

Posted by: Goober at September 16, 2010 01:21 PM (QNRoi)

7 Mini Ice Age?  Oh fuck yeah, I'm all about a mini Ice Age, fuck warm weather.

Posted by: doubleplusundead at September 16, 2010 01:28 PM (S1+SK)

8

You know DPUD, I've been pretty tolerant of you, but no fucking more.

You don't have to shovel heat.

You don't have to scrape it off your windshield.

The A/C in your car comes on in about a minute, it takes 20+ minutes for the heat to work well enough to warm the car up.

And, most importantly, women don't bundle up when it's hot.

Exactly the opposite, as a matter of fact.

Posted by: Veeshir at September 16, 2010 01:58 PM (aFnZ8)

9 Newton's own words:
"The observation you mention … I once made upon my self with ye hazzard of my eyes. The manner was this. I looked a very little while upon ye sun in a looking-glass wth my right eye & then turned my eyes into a dark corner of my chamber & winked to observe the impression made & the circles of colours wch encompassed it & how they decayed by degrees & at last vanished. This I repeated a second & a third time. At the third time when the phantasm of light & colours about it were almost vanished, intending my phansy upon them to see their last appearance I found to my amazemt that they began to return & by little & little to become as lively & vivid as when I had newly looked upon ye sun. But when I ceased to intende my phansy upon them they vanished again. After this I found that as often as I went into ye dark & intended my mind upon them as when a man looks earnestly to see any thing wch is difficult to be seen, I could make ye phantasm return wthout looking any more upon the sun. And the oftener I made it return, the more easily I could make it return again. And at length by repeating this wthout looking any more upon the sun I made such an impression on my eye that if I looked upon ye clouds or a book or any bright object I saw upon it a round bright spot of light like ye sun. And, which is still stranger, though I looked upon ye sun wth my right eye only & not with my left, yet my phansy began to make ye impression upon my left eye as well as upon my right. For if I shut my right eye & looked upon a book or the clouds with my left eye I could see ye spectrum of the sun almost as plain as with my right eye, if I did but intend my phansy a little while upon it. For at first if I shut my right eye & looked wth my left, ye spectrum of ye Sun did not appear till I intended my phansy upon it; but by repeating this, appeared every time more easily. And now in a few hours time I had brought my eys to such a pass that I could look upon no bright object with either eye but I saw ye sun before me, so that I durst neither write nor read but to recover ye use of my eyes shut myself up in my chamber made dark for three days together & used all means to divert my imagination from ye Sun. For if I thought upon him I presently saw his picture though I was in ye dark. But by keeping in ye dark & imploying my mind about other things I began in three or four days to have some use of my eyes again & by forbearing a few days longer to look upon bright objects recovered them pretty well, thô not so well but that for some months after the spectrum of the sun began to return as often as I began to meditate upon ye phænomenon, even tho I lay in bed at midnight wth my curtains drawn. But now I have been very well for many years, tho I am apt to think that if I durst venture my eyes I could still make ye phantasm return by the power of my fansy."

Fuck off.

Posted by: tangonine at September 16, 2010 10:26 PM (C8Pcc)

10 And to make the point of my point, Goober, you fucking troll, the reference was to illustrate that staring at the sun will make you go blind.  I didn't say Newton "went blind" asshole.

Posted by: tangonine at September 16, 2010 10:33 PM (C8Pcc)

11 thank you , very nice blog ..

Posted by: emolar at November 25, 2010 06:53 PM (A21c/)

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