I used to follow the sunspot cycle back when I was an active amateur radio operator. I would always be on the lookout on solar activity. The higher the solar activity, the better the DX was on the upper bands. In fact, during times of high solar activity, it was a lot of fun. You could actually watch tv broadcasts from several states away. With just a 5 watt SSB rig, you could reach halfway around the world on 10 meters. It was exciting.
Now, we are at the bottom of the solar cycle. The new solar cycle hasn’t begun yet and we have been been on the minimum for more than a year now. In fact, we are in the midst of one of the least active periods of solar activity for at least a century, probably much longer. Low solar activity can influence the climate on Earth. In fact, a long period of low solar activity coincided with the mini Ice Age in the 1500 and 1600’s. Some scientists are beginning to talk to about this possibility.
So, are we on the road to global warming or on the edge of a mini Ice Age?
Tags: climate, global warming, weather
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Very interesting. It makes you wonder wether or not all this talk about a man made global warming was all a bunch of BS, when in fact it’s just the seasons of the sun that’s been warming up the earth to this point. Would be interesting if we are in fact headed into a mini Ice Age, it would make people like Al Gore look like fools.
Wow, I had no idea. On the one hand, less interruptions, on the other… yikes, could be getting colder?!?
the sun being in a low solar cycle and possibly COOLING the earth, does NOT IN ANY WAY dispute the man made global warming thing. they are not mutually exclusive. we CAN have man made global warming at the same time as the sudden decline of solar activity…. perhaps, if the sun cycle were to last….the man made global warming may in some way FORESTALL the effects of the low solar sunspot cycle. ebcak probably listens to rush limbaugh.
Clearly, the aliens who plan to deprive humanity of its home world are in the final stages of enabling solar plasma to be arced directionally into the largest population centers on earth, thus neutralizing any possibility of retaliation by our armed forces, while at the same time terraforming the land to their own comfortable norms.
Or, it’s just a fluke.
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