What's wrong with this picture?
The pic below is our sun. Anybody know what's unusual about the pic?
There arent any sunspots on the disk.
While it's true that we're at a minimum in the normal 11-year sunspot cycle, there's a longer-term cycle that seems to be dropping, so that the current 11-year minimum will likely last longer than usual.
Why should that concern you, eh?
Turns out there seems to be a tiny correlation between sunspot activity and the sun's output. For decades scientists thought the sun's output was constant, but more recent measurements show it actually varies by one percent or so.
While that doesn't seem like much, over time it could account for a lot of temperature difference on Earth. And since the trend is down, that suggests not global warming, but global cooling.
Oh wait...I forgot: Democrat congresscreeps and Dem presidential candidates and the NY Times all tell us that "the science is SETTLED!!!," and Global Warming is inevitable. Doom in just ten years!
Yeah.
There arent any sunspots on the disk.
While it's true that we're at a minimum in the normal 11-year sunspot cycle, there's a longer-term cycle that seems to be dropping, so that the current 11-year minimum will likely last longer than usual.
Why should that concern you, eh?
Turns out there seems to be a tiny correlation between sunspot activity and the sun's output. For decades scientists thought the sun's output was constant, but more recent measurements show it actually varies by one percent or so.
While that doesn't seem like much, over time it could account for a lot of temperature difference on Earth. And since the trend is down, that suggests not global warming, but global cooling.
Oh wait...I forgot: Democrat congresscreeps and Dem presidential candidates and the NY Times all tell us that "the science is SETTLED!!!," and Global Warming is inevitable. Doom in just ten years!
Yeah.
posted by SF at
5:27 PM
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