September 01, 2008
— Ace On the other hand, it will also end under President John McCain.
It will also end under a Sam Elliott/Powers Boothe Action Cowboy Co-Presidency.
No sunspots seen in an entire month -- the first time that's happened since 1913. Fewer sunspots = lower solar activity = lower earth temperatures.
A 2005 paper predicted sunspot activity would dwindle to nothing... but it was rejected for publication as being "too controversial." So, this is kind of a major thing.
And on top of that, the longer the delay before the next period of high sunspot activity, the more severe the cooling will be. And we've been waiting for the start of a new cycle for a long time.
Doesn't matter. The Black Hole Machine's going to kill us all first. So we're not only going to die, but Al Gore's going to get to keep his fucking Oscar.
This article is kind of funny. When global warming itself is not being directly discussed, or challenged, scientists and science journalists feel freer to kinda-sorta admit: You know, it's pretty much all about the Sun when you get right down to it.*
Shhh. Don't tell anyone. There are... political considerations to weigh when discussing science.
As a commenter said (sorry, forget who):
If only there were some... natural mechanism for explaining the warming and cooling phases of the earth.This hypothetical mechanism would have to be a massive source of energy, however. Approximately on the scale of our own Sun.
PS, one observatory says they saw one tiny speck of a sunspot in August. So, if you go by their findings, it's merely a 50-year rarity rather than a century rarity.
Thanks to both Arthur and someone.
* Actually, they probably didn't mention global warming to avoid the delicate, politically charged question of whether it would sorta be a good thing to have some man-made warming in a period of severe solar cooling.
Science.
Oh: Last year alone, as sunspot activity continued to dwindle, we lost something like .7 Celsius in global mean temperature -- nearly wiping out all the scary-huge warming we've had over the past century (about 1 degree C). And more cooling seems to be on the way.
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Posted by: someone at September 01, 2008 11:29 PM (2z2WN)
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 01, 2008 11:41 PM (ul7te)
Posted by: Maetenloch at September 01, 2008 11:43 PM (HIUG4)
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 01, 2008 11:45 PM (ul7te)
Let me correct maetenloch.
200 years ago my hometown wasn't near lake michigan, it WAS lake michigan.
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 01, 2008 11:46 PM (ul7te)
200 years ago my hometown wasn't near lake michigan, it WAS lake michigan.
Heh, I believe real estate agents refer to this as being all lakefront property.
Posted by: Maetenloch at September 01, 2008 11:49 PM (HIUG4)
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 01, 2008 11:50 PM (ul7te)
Obama can ride a bicycle....
Does that count?
Posted by: kal at September 01, 2008 11:51 PM (F+J2I)
This chick gets in some kind of photobooth on the beach that spits out a blue photo that enhances her freckels (UV DAMAGE!!!!), and she's talking about how it's proof of global warming, hence we need [brand name] sunscreen?
Fuck. The Earth is already apparently cooling by some accounts. I wonder how long it will take for scientists to honestly report that global warming was pure BS. Oh wait, I know: as soon as they have the next crisis lined up to bilk us for tax dollar grants. Sadly, a lot of the things we should do if global warming is a threat are things we should do anyway (nuclear power, cleaner energy sources, etc), and if the public associates that stuff with global warming... it could be a problem down the road for environmentalists who made a shitty argument when they had a good one.
Posted by: Shill at September 01, 2008 11:54 PM (8jYMc)
Mother Earth?
this bitch has been doing perfectly well in taking care of herself for 4 1/2 billion years, I think she outranks any pol who doesn't even have a degree in a hard science.
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 01, 2008 11:55 PM (ul7te)
No, the Earth is cooling down because celebrities are buying Priuses and fluorescent light bulbs. Duh.
Posted by: Sean M. at September 02, 2008 12:05 AM (e6v7s)
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 02, 2008 12:06 AM (ul7te)
Posted by: Jim Treacher at September 02, 2008 12:10 AM (NV3P1)
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 02, 2008 12:12 AM (ul7te)
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 02, 2008 12:13 AM (ul7te)
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at September 02, 2008 12:23 AM (sI5Ho)
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 02, 2008 12:26 AM (ul7te)
Step 1. Set-up phony front scientists to start the global warming hysteria
Step 2. Get every democratic on board the bus.
Step 3. Use super duper ray gun to turn off sunspots and stop warming to discredit democrats.
Karl Rove, like Dr. Evil only real!
Posted by: liontooth at September 02, 2008 12:33 AM (n3pxb)
Posted by: Jim Hansen at September 02, 2008 12:38 AM (iIvIk)
Posted by: Cybrludite at September 02, 2008 01:43 AM (kpHqB)
Posted by: FloofyParisParamus at September 02, 2008 01:54 AM (KSF7K)
Posted by: maverick muse at September 02, 2008 02:06 AM (F1b/5)
*sigh*
Floofy? Climates change, thats what they do, it's happening all throughout the solar system, BECAUSE OF THE SUN! not because I like 1980's luxury car's.
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 02, 2008 02:07 AM (ul7te)
Posted by: maverick muse at September 02, 2008 02:08 AM (F1b/5)
"So if global cooling goes on for more than a couple years, it would be good thing to have a leader who can handle a snowmachine and hunt caribou."
Fuck the caribou: I want to see Sarah tackle a mammoth!
Posted by: Brown Line at September 02, 2008 02:33 AM (OMiLl)
Posted by: FloofyParisParamus at September 02, 2008 02:37 AM (KSF7K)
Problem is, these feedbacks don't seem to be acting like the models say they should. As a result, while atmospheric CO2 has been increasing for the last 10 years, global temperatures haven't.
The argument isn't that a sunspot low is masking global warming. It is that this is yet another example of how badly the global warming models are flawed.
Posted by: Andy at September 02, 2008 02:38 AM (iIvIk)
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 02, 2008 02:40 AM (ul7te)
Last year alone, as sunspot activity continued to dwindle, we lost something like .7 Celsius in global mean temperature -- nearly wiping out all the scary-huge warming we've had over the past century (about 1 degree C). And more cooling seems to be on the way.
Crap. I forgot my jacket this morning. The government needs to do something about this cooling. I demand that they require car manufacturers to build less efficient cars that pollute.
Posted by: Steve L. at September 02, 2008 02:44 AM (o0YD+)
Posted by: FloofyParisParamus at September 02, 2008 02:46 AM (KSF7K)
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at September 02, 2008 02:53 AM (sf4Oe)
Posted by: sirsurfalot at September 02, 2008 02:58 AM (Czvjx)
Posted by: memomachine at September 02, 2008 03:03 AM (f4Zt4)
Posted by: Andy at September 02, 2008 03:03 AM (iIvIk)
One thing that I think is a bit weird is that there aren't any new TV westerns. Next to reality shows a TV western has to be the cheapest type of show to make and definitely has re-run potential that reality shows simply don't have.
Posted by: memomachine at September 02, 2008 03:04 AM (f4Zt4)
Posted by: Kevin S. Willis at September 02, 2008 03:04 AM (NZfvn)
One thing that I think is a bit weird is that there aren't any new TV westerns.
Subtle homo-eroticism has been on the decline since liberace.
Posted by: wickedpinto at September 02, 2008 03:16 AM (ul7te)
It's actually a combination of things that center around the cyclical nature of the Sun. To this you need to add the precession of the Earth as it wobbles on it's axis and the fact that the Earth's orbit around the Sun isn't a perfect circle.
Frankly it's a bit amazing how many liberals I've encountered who think that the orbit is a perfect circle "because that's how it's depicted in the text books!!".
So you've got a very complex series of cycles within cycles. Where some cycles are at opposite maximum and minimum, they'll cancel out. Where cycles are all at maximum or minimum, then that'll be a serious motherfucker.
What cycles are aligning for the next few decades to the next few centuries, who knows. But it's clear that global warming might be something we'll wish were true because one thing is for certain and that is you can't grow wheat in a snowfield.
Posted by: memomachine at September 02, 2008 03:17 AM (f4Zt4)
"Subtle homo-eroticism has been on the decline since liberace."
I blame Putin.
Seriously. What kind of name is Putin? Sounds like a Russian version of Liberace don't you think? Liberace and Putin, bringing the swinging sounds of homo-eroticism.
Putin. Sounds like someone with a speech impediment trying to speak Spanish.
Posted by: memomachine at September 02, 2008 03:19 AM (f4Zt4)
You didn't expect them to admit it .. did you ?
Posted by: Neo at September 02, 2008 03:24 AM (Yozw9)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IlHgbOWj4o
Crank it up and do the Science is settled Dance.
Posted by: sirsurfalot at September 02, 2008 03:24 AM (Czvjx)
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=N2VjNWU5YjUyM2Y1YWM5N2YwMTBjYmE0NjUzMzFhNzM=
HOGWASH. The price of crude is plummeting because (1) Harry Reid is a dick; (2) Nancy Pelosy is worse than that; and (3) We have a dril drill drill VP candidate.
Posted by: FloofyParisParamus at September 02, 2008 03:37 AM (KSF7K)
Global cooling due to decreased sunspot activity.
Posted by: Mark at September 02, 2008 03:44 AM (/5VuW)
Shhh. Don't tell anyone. There are... political considerations to weigh when discussing science.
Bingo.
If you have any doubt, check out this article from 2001. It describes a detailed piece of research by NASA into sun spot activity and the relationship with the last Little Ice Age. It makes a compelling cause and effect relationship between sloar activity on the large, yellow ball in the sky that has been the primary catalyst on earth's climate since time started. It demonstrates how during the last ice age, sun spot activity was almost non-existent and wild, regional temperature swings happened on earth.
Of course, it goes on to say that none of this applies anymore. SUV's and flourescent light bulbs are now causing the glaciers to melt. Why? Who funds NASA? Follow the money.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 02, 2008 04:09 AM (VBon8)
Fool me once .. shame on you. Fool me twice .. shame on me.
But remember that it is an imperative that lawmakers do something now, lest the whole Global Warming thing will be "cured" by Nature, leaving them without any chance of claiming credit for ending the warming trend.
Posted by: Neo at September 02, 2008 04:14 AM (Yozw9)
Al Gore will clog the black hole, saving the planet.
Posted by: Dusty at September 02, 2008 04:16 AM (Mlw0p)
I alway thought it was pretty funny that they ignored sunspots in the whole global warming religion becuase the one of the first things they teach in chemistry and in physics is to know that the energy entering the system effects the system and that if that energy changes the effects change.
I guess the global warming folks missed that because "they don't really do anything except pass out the sylibis on the first day." Right?
Posted by: Rob B at September 02, 2008 04:20 AM (q32Ly)
The left does not want global warming ended. They need something to scare the ignorant into believing that only they have the solution.
Posted by: Reiver at September 02, 2008 04:22 AM (Yi1Sk)
Posted by: Aurvant at September 02, 2008 04:38 AM (VvcWe)
A Sam Elliott/Powers Boothe Action Cowboy Co-Presidency?!
Awesome!
With Michael Ironside as Secretary of Defense and William Forsythe as Secretary of Kicking Ass.
Posted by: Steve (aka Ed Snate) at September 02, 2008 04:45 AM (Xhr8c)
Mr. Gore? Mr. Gore? The Nobel Prize Committee is on the phone. They want their prize back.
Posted by: klrtz1 at September 02, 2008 05:09 AM (HCNr7)
But remember that it is an imperative that lawmakers do something now, lest the whole Global Warming thing will be "cured" by Nature, leaving them without any chance of claiming credit for ending the warming trend.
I do wonder if McCain knows anything about this...
Posted by: Entropy at September 02, 2008 05:19 AM (m6c4H)
This chair I'm sitting in is about one hundred yards from the bay and about 6 feet above sea level. All this time I've been waiting on someone, anyone, to tell me when the water gets too high so I can get the hell out of here.
But no. Now what am I supposed to do? Get some ice skates?
I wish the geopolitco-commie-nerd-scientists could make up their fucking minds.
Bastids.
Posted by: SlaveDog at September 02, 2008 05:20 AM (H6Jyg)
Posted by: Entropy at September 02, 2008 05:48 AM (m6c4H)
Global cooling of 1-2-4 degrees will be much more devastating than global warming of the same amount.
I would hate to see Algore stoned to death in the public square.
Posted by: FUBAR at September 02, 2008 05:52 AM (HrVHr)
Posted by: John Ryan at September 02, 2008 06:15 AM (TcoRJ)
Posted by: Al Gore's accountant at September 02, 2008 07:21 AM (VkNlv)
As a commenter said (sorry, forget who):
Was that Phinn? I remember this comment too, and the name of the poster is escaping me.
Posted by: EC at September 02, 2008 07:25 AM (mAhn3)
Sounds like Sarah Palin might be the kind of leader we need right now, someone who can get us to open up the stored energy we already have access to.
Posted by: Dick Palmer at September 02, 2008 07:41 AM (MMC8r)
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Posted by: TXMarko at September 02, 2008 08:30 AM (thqrj)
question: do atmospheric CO2 levels drive global temperature, or does global temperature drive atmospheric CO2 levels?
anyone?..... bueller?
Posted by: shoey at September 02, 2008 08:44 AM (IRh55)
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Posted by: Thomas Jones at September 04, 2008 01:05 PM (IpR0w)
And of course politicians are going to make money off of energy, no matter what party. Republican or Democrats, it makes no difference. McCain=Oil or Al Gore=Alternative Energy. So, don't kid yourself because, either way, taxpayers are going to have to pay for infrastructure improvement programs no matter which side of the energy equation you slice it. Actually, we pay $1 billion a year importing foreign sources of energy, much more expensive than the proposed solar and wind project that is only going to cost $3 billion over the next ten years. That's a projected cost of $3 million a year. Tell me how that is cheaper than the billions of dollars we import in energy every year? Not only do you not make any scientific sense, you make no economic sense either. Okay then, help us waste our money. When the country goes broke, don't blame us.
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