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Sunspot Deficit Disorder
Montana State University | Submitted by: Bad Bird
"Tsuneta said solar physicists aren't like weather forecasters; They can't predict the future. They do have the ability to observe, however, and they have observed a longer-than-normal period of solar inactivity. In the past, they observed that the sun once went 50 years without producing sunspots. That period coincided with a little ice age on Earth that lasted from 1650 to 1700."
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From: helterskelter
Date: 10-Jun-2008 14:41
Forth after dark... a time I do know In my kingdom... I enter to my own world Open the gate... of a mountain of dark Rising with the shadow... a dark world made for me Black my mind... black my heart... In my kingdom... I enter to my own world Open the gate... of a mountain of black Rising with the shadow... a black world made for me Frozen and cold... an existence I do know... In my kingdom cold I enter this condition Open the gate... of a mountain of ice Rising with the shadows... a cold world made for me Forth after dark... a time I do know In my kingdom... I enter to my own world Open the gate... of a mountain of dark Rising with the shadow... a dark world made for me In my kingdom cold... At the mountains of madness Unending grimness These mountains which I heart In my kingdom cold... At the mountains of madness Unending grimness this kingdom it is mine...
From: gargoyle1
Date: 10-Jun-2008 15:09
Well, if we get another Maunder Minimum ( little ice age ) that might help offset the global warming, er climate change. I could go for some cooler weather right now for damned sure.
From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 15:12
Two sunspots are staring at me One to the left and one to the right of me Never seen a heat so extraordinaire Just two sunspots so so so scared Just two sunspots Just two sunspots Just two sunspots Spots are burning a hole in my eyes Just two rough round red raw real sunspots Rough to the touch and shy of the air They start a little fire and the weather ain't fair. Just two sunspots Just two sunspots - The Stranglers
From: atomhartmother [yeah, m'kay]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 15:26
Pissing away money. I thought the little ice age went from 1300 to 1850, But I watch The History Channel to much.
From: gargoyle1
Date: 10-Jun-2008 16:02
atomheart, it did, and they figure the cause was little to no sunspot activity and lower solar output as a result. Believe it or not, before 1300 england had better grape crops than france and had better wine as a result. Seems it was warmer then than now.
From: noracejusthuman
[Alien From Earth]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 18:03
OK , SLOW news day. Trying to drum up some excitment fer a really boring satellite program. Ok .. THE headline scare.. Little ICE Age. Then says FIFTY YEARS IN A ROW of NO sunspot activity coincided with it. No sunspots fer Two years..(yawn) I think I'll hold off ANOTHER 48 more years before I'll worry about an ICE AGE comin.
From: godozo [Don H.]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 18:36
I've read the article. It's interesting, especially since sunspots are linked to warmth on the sun and thusly a warmer earth. I know some of the anti-warming forces (having given up on the idea of CO2 as a cooling gas) have latched on a possible Maunder Minimum occurring in another eleven years (with its own morale: Burn and Let Loose more CO2). It may be, of course, that that Maunder Minimum may already be starting. It would help explain why the past year and a half has actually cooled down (1998 was an outlier, however the years between it and 2007 were on average warmer than everything between 1972 and 1998). That, and China and an exploding volcano in the south.
From: mikeisgreen
[Mike]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 19:10
As a former Physics major, I can tell you that this means: WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE! THERE'S NOWHERE TO RUN! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!
From: rotteneggs13
[a bakers dozen]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 19:41
From: DD <<Two sunspots are staring at me...>> ----+----+---- Two giant sunspots staring at you.  Mike you mean we're all going to die someday? AH FUCK, there go my plans for 8/25/2371.
From: greenfuzz [greenfuzz]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 21:27
Don't let the Japanese near the Sun for Christ sakes!
From: aulduron
[Aulduron]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 21:31
She packed up her bags And she took off down the road Left me here stranded With the bills she owed She gave me a false address Took off With my American Express Sunspot baby She sure had me way outguessed She left me here stranded Like a dog out in the yard Charged up a fortune On my credit card She used my address and my name Man that was sure unkind Sunspot baby She sure has a real good time I looked in Miami I looked in Negril The closest I came Was a month old bill I checked the Bahamas And they said she was gone I can't understand why She did me so wrong But she packed up her bags And she took off down the road Said she was going To visit Sister Flo She used my address and my name And man that was sure unkind Sunspot baby I'm gonna catch up sometime Sure had a real good time
From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 22:50
Thanks for the 'sunspots' Eggage........I would certainly avail myself! Aureoles 'R' Us.   Ever been to Baltimore? And Auldy with the Bob Seger. (not a HUGE fan; but that's a great tune!)
From: wulfgarthewhite [Black to White]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 23:07
So if we get fantastically lucky and a new Maunder minimum holds back the effects of global warming, we can all party like it's 1979? Especially since AIDS is not a problem any more [see yesterday's story]. What could possibly go wrong with that? 
From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 23:08
Now I have a woody!   Ho-ho-ho ho ho! Ho-ho-ho ho ho! Oh, that's the Woody Woodpecker song Ho-ho-ho ho ho! Ho-ho-ho ho ho! Yeah, he's a-peckin' it all day long! BTW, FYI Robin's eggs are blue. (He needs a whore!)   Holy dogshit Batman!
From: rotteneggs13
[a bakers dozen]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 23:16
Speaking of woodie wood pecker. I had this misguided pecker-head (my nick-name for wood peckers) that was pecking at the vinyl siding of my house. And the damn vinyl seemed to amplify the sound of his pecking that it sounded like a jack-hammer going to town on the house. I yelled at the mudder fuggin' pecker-head a few times and haven't heard him since. Surrounded by thousands of trees and this dumb-ass bird picks my house to try and find a meal.
From: hippityhopp
[bunny meat is good!]
Date: 10-Jun-2008 23:23
So how long should we wait before Al Gore starts railing against Global cooling and starts blaming it on our cutting down on carbon emissions "too much"? Seriously the man is worse than a menopausal old lady, "It's too hot, turn down the heat. Now it's too cold, turn it back up. It's too hot...."
From: mikeisgreen
[Mike]
Date: 11-Jun-2008 00:32
Eggie, try to "adopt" a stray cat that's about a year old, or younger. You can always go to your local SPCA, and ask them to show you an outdoor cat that is fixed.
From: darkblades [DarkBlades]
Date: 11-Jun-2008 02:08
Bring on the cooler weather. :D
From: other [unclassified]
Date: 11-Jun-2008 03:40
How is the EPA going to fix this one?
From: piscivore [Michael C. Scott]
Date: 11-Jun-2008 05:46
If we have another ice age, does that mean the n!ggers will die off? Al Gore can have the credit for inventing the next ice age. Fucking idiot.
From: bobsdesk [Bob]
Date: 11-Jun-2008 10:44
SOLOR SYSTEM Warming! This is the fault of all you SUV drivers
From: helterskelter
Date: 11-Jun-2008 11:03
If we have another ice age, does that mean the n!ggers will die off? =============================== No, They'll turn white.
Updated: 12-Jun-2008 12:44
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