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September 02, 2008

Breaking: Solar Activity May Affect Temperatures On Earth And The Sun Isn't Very Active
— DrewM

I'm not a professional ~~scientist~~ blowhard like Al Gore but I always found it interesting that people were so willing to ignore that big glowing thing in the sky as a factor in the Earth's climate. The narrative is indeed all powerful.

Now it turns out some ~~heretics~~ scientists are actually considering the possibility that the Sun has an impact on temperatures here. And what they are seeing isn't what the Global Warming cultists want to here.

The sun has reached a milestone not seen for nearly 100 years: an entire month has passed without a single visible sunspot being noted.
The event is significant as many climatologists now believe solar magnetic activity which determines the number of sunspots -- is an influencing factor for climate on earth.
According to data from Mount Wilson Observatory, UCLA, more than an entire month has passed without a spot. The last time such an event occurred was June of 1913. Sunspot data has been collected since 1749.
...In the past 1000 years, three previous such events -- the Dalton, Maunder, and Spörer Minimums, have all led to rapid cooling. One was large enough to be called a "mini ice age". For a society dependent on agriculture, cold is more damaging than heat. The growing season shortens, yields drop, and the occurrence of crop-destroying frosts increases.

As the article explains this activity, or lack thereof, was predicted in a paper 3 years ago but the paper was rejected by the journal Science as being too controversial. As you know, the science is settled. Except when it isn't.

Now do I think this finding and this phenomena settles anything? No. But it does seem that before we go off and destroy our economy in the name of stopping Global Warming, we should be pretty damn sure we know what we are talking about. I don't think anybody but a true believer would think otherwise.

In keeping with Palinmania...remember she isn't a cultist.

UPDATE: Whoops. Ace already posted it so it's old. But content has been moving pretty fast and furious around here so I'll leave it up because it might be new to some. Check out Ace's post as well if you missed it the first time since his has teh funny in it.

Posted by: DrewM at 09:24 AM | Comments (32)
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Posted by: Andy at September 02, 2008 09:28 AM (C3mTI)

2 Some advocates of the "dimming sun" view are right in line with global warming orthodoxy. They claim that the true effects of global warming are being temporarily blunted by the "dimming sun." Funny how that works, isn't it?

Posted by: Bugler at September 02, 2008 09:32 AM (YCVBL)

3 I thought global warming ended when Obama won the nomination.

Posted by: bleh at September 02, 2008 09:34 AM (GNCy6)

4 All y'all can kiss my ass.

Posted by: falsifiability at September 02, 2008 09:35 AM (TXp3z)

5 DrewM. -- only Ace gets to not read this blog.

Posted by: someone at September 02, 2008 09:35 AM (2z2WN)

6 someone,

I know.

I think it's the first time I've been the second of two posts....I broke my cherry!

Posted by: DrewM. at September 02, 2008 09:37 AM (hlYel)

7 SUVs kill sun spots.

Posted by: WalrusRex at September 02, 2008 09:37 AM (DVVXZ)

Bleh.

Posted by: Entropy at September 02, 2008 09:39 AM (m6c4H)

9 What the hell are you guys doing talking about politics and science when something IMPORTANT is about to happen?

In 18 minutes, Google launches a new browser.

Posted by: Christoph at September 02, 2008 09:42 AM (hawOV)

10 I have been telling people for years that this warm spell would not last and people should enjoy it and not worry about global warming. I have alway felt it was a gift from God.
Now the problem is, will we be ready for the coming cold spell. When we should have been building more power plants, this country has slowed down the building of power plants and are trying to stop all coal power plants.
When we run out of power, it will take years to catch up, and while the same people who wanted us to worry about global warming will be same ones asking why the power company let us run out of power.

Posted by: shunha7878 at September 02, 2008 09:42 AM (/DeBx)

We're running out of solar energy!

Since the wind is effected by the sun, this means wind power is affected too!

We're all gonna die!

Posted by: Spartan Fan at September 02, 2008 09:45 AM (7365r)

12 Maybe that cute chick from Alaska can give the rest of us some tips on how to deal with the coming ice age.

Posted by: roy at September 02, 2008 09:46 AM (cB77O)

13 'It's happening!"

You can download Google Chrome now, the new browser which runs each tab in a sandbox, independent child of a parent, so one bad tab doesn't crash the whole browser, and you can restore the tab to a pre-crash state.

It doesn't give your PC any permissions over the rendering engine.

And I could go on.

YOU REALLY should get on this and get the browser! I'll tell you how AoSHQ looks in it.

I've never been there at the launch of a new browser before. I started my download seconds before the official announcement. I'm so excited.

This could be the greatest day in web browser history.

Posted by: Christoph at September 02, 2008 09:51 AM (hawOV)

14 I'm just hoping that somewhere in all this BS, Leo DiCaprio gets eaten by a polar bear. Is that too much to ask?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 02, 2008 09:52 AM (B+qrE)

This could be the greatest day in web browser history.

Anyone else think Christoph needs to get out just a teensy bit more?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 02, 2008 09:54 AM (B+qrE)

16 The Sun? Have some effect on the Earth? Shut up!

Anyone else think Christoph needs to get out just a teensy bit more?

If that criticism is coming from a Moron, well, you know that it's got to be true.

Posted by: alexthechick at September 02, 2008 09:56 AM (jCGID)

17 You mean that big yellow object in the sky is largely responsible for the temperature on earth - who would have thunk it?

Posted by: adk46er at September 02, 2008 09:58 AM (P0G7O)

18 _{don't encourage him}

Posted by: just sayin at September 02, 2008 09:59 AM (7DB+a)

19 I see it man, and it's beautiful. I'm using Google Chrome now. Someone, please, for the love of God check the logs and see if I'm the first visitor ever to Ace of Spades using this browser. I can't describe how wonderful it is, but let me try. In Mozilla Firefox, I had a toolbar with all my folders organized logically using the principles of "Getting Things Done", and subfolders. Internet Explorer can't do this at all. Google Chrome uploaded them all, hundreds of folders, thousands of individual bookmarks, correctly, including subfolders, and placed them on its own toolbar. How did it know to do this? I don't know, but it did. I feel like I could cry, I'm struck by the awe inspiring beauty of it. I wish you guys could see it from here, could see what I can see. To start with, I just resized this textarea box easily to see everything I'd written. I can resize it at will. There's a gold aura around the box you'll see if you download it now. Google Chrome will allow you to save a webpage as a desktop or quick launch shortcut, then when you click on it open the whole window without the browser UI. This means any web based or "cloud computing" application you run will run as if it's on your desktop, even visually. It will look exactly like a native app without having to be installed on your server or on each machine. Are you getting a feel for the power, grace, and awesomeness of this? Come join me. This is the most inspiring things since Palin or, dare I say it, Reagan.

Posted by: Christoph at September 02, 2008 10:01 AM (hawOV)

I don't know how much Google is paying you but you might want to consider partnering up with Chinese Google Spambot. That guy knows how to move volume. In Chinese, so you don't know what the hell he's saying, but volumes. And I hear by word of grapevine he actually writes wonderful prosaic adcopy. The kind of marketing tag lines that not only make you cry, but shit your pants in joy they're so beautiful and moving.

Also, he, like you, is comfortable being under close supervision with everything he does online. So he should have no problems with Google. Maybe a bit less privacy then the PRC allows, but not much.

But hey, google just wants to sell ads targeted to you! Not put you in prison for having the WRONG KIND of political thoughts....yet, anyway.

Posted by: Entropy at September 02, 2008 10:08 AM (m6c4H)

21 Not a penny, sweet friend, not a penny. -- This comment typed on the lovely just launched Google Chrome browser available from Google. This endorsement given freely without compensation. The author first learned about Chrome 52 minutes ago, and is already impressed.

Posted by: Christoph at September 02, 2008 10:15 AM (hawOV)

22 Is the sun female? I'd like to ask it for a lap dance and tip it heavily if it is.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at September 02, 2008 10:23 AM (6L459)

23 If you're not being payed, I can only assume you've been suckered into a cult and have traded your life's savings and your testicles for a pair of chromed nike's.

Posted by: Entropy at September 02, 2008 10:29 AM (m6c4H)

This is so fucking old, I mentioned it over a year ago...

How does the Farmers Almanac predict weather?

We derive out weather forecasts from a secret formula that was devised by the founder of this Almanac, Robert B. Thomas, in 1792. Thomas believed that weather on Earth was influenced by sunspots, which are magnetic storms on the surface of the Sun.

Over the years, we have refined and enhanced that formula with state-of-the-art technology and modern scientific calculations. We employ three scientific disciplines to make our long-range predictions: solar science, the study of sunspots and other solar activity; climatology, the study of prevailing weather patterns; and meteorology, the study of the atmosphere. We predict weather trends and events by comparing solar patterns and historical weather conditions with current solar activity.

Posted by: AndrewsDad at September 02, 2008 10:38 AM (C2//T)

25 Awesome, ain't I? Also, Here's a handy link to the outer space Solar Observatory. Click on the picture for the giant sized sun and count the (lack of) sun spots for yourself. http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/mdi_igr/512/

Posted by: Chrome at September 02, 2008 10:58 AM (DoIJz)

Christoph,

There is no way I'm switching browsers unless Chrome has a sure fire way of hiding all of my porn links from the wife.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 02, 2008 11:02 AM (E6GUg)

27 What is www.enormousfunbags.com?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks wife at September 02, 2008 11:15 AM (B+qrE)

28 Yikes, I had no idea it would actually put a link there? I don't know what is there, so please proceed with caution.

Posted by: Circa (insert Year Here) at September 02, 2008 11:17 AM (B+qrE)

29 Lemmiwinks, look what I found in my new shiny Google Chrome: "You've gone incognito. Pages you view in this window won't appear in your browser history or search history, and they won't leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window." You were saying?

Posted by: Christoph at September 02, 2008 11:26 AM (hawOV)

30 This is all crazytalk! Man, and man alone is responsible for heating the earth. We will just have to cut back on the number of men if we want to survive this horrible almost 2 degree rise in temperature. I can barely keep my G&Ts cold without ice!

The horror...the horror.

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