FAREWELL SOLAR MINIMUM

[platinumdude]

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Solar activity is picking up and that gives some astronomers reason to wake up in the morning. "Ah the dawn of a new day... and what a day it was!" says Wouter Verhesen of the Netherlands, who took this picture of the morning sun on August 6th: (click on link)

"There were massive prominences sticking out of the sun everywhere, sunspots galore, and even a small flare in AR1093," says Verhesen. "I can't remember the last time I had so much to do with my small solarscope. Farewell solar minimum, you will not be missed!"

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

Remember the "THE SUN IS DEAD" thread on the old site?


Now's the time to say.....


No it's not! I told ya so!

[Liquid]

We've had a solar minimum for how many years now? This solar maximum is going to be big one.

[StackerKen]

Thanks for the link Dude

looks like Thursday, August 12th will be a good night for star gazing :)

[Ares]

Damn :( I was hoping the solar minium would last a little while longer so that the earth wouldn't continue to warm up. The global warming loons would look like idiots if they kept proclaiming global warming, yet the earth was getting cooler.

[Neuro]

We've had a solar minimum for how many years now? This solar maximum is going to be big one.
Probably not. The norm is that with long solar minimums, we get small, tepid, solar maximums... The earth is going to continue to cool down. The interesting thing will be with the next minimum. It could be the entrance of a new mini Ice age ala Maunder minimum or even a big Ice age...

[Becks1516]

So long as we are indeed in Solar Cycle 24, which in my view
" appears " to have begun October 2009, then if NASA stuff
is correct this Solar Cycle 24 should PEAK sometime during 2013,
BUT, NASA changes its predictions as time goes on and NASA
has selected sometime in 2008 as the end of Solar Cycle 23,
the beginning of Solar Cycle 24.

Seems to me, although I do not know, that it is more likely that
a " mini ice age " is about to develop ( we will see ) ...

The picture at http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/GrandMinima.gif
which is from http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/GandF.htm
certainly suggests a cooling period.

There are many that suggest cooling is on the way
... http://landscheidt.auditblogs.com/papers-by-dr-theodor-landscheidt/
... http://landscheidt.auditblogs.com/

... http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2930
... http://ray.tomes.biz/

Data .. Sunspot numbers
http://sidc.oma.be/sunspot-data/dailyssn.php

[Dogman]

http://www.spaceweather.com/images2010/16oct10/euvfilament_strip.jpg

Things are speeding up more spots.

GREAT FILAMENT: A vast filament of magnetism is cutting across the sun's southern hemisphere today. Run a finger along the golden-brown line in this extreme UV image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory and your digit will have traveled more than 400,000 km:

A bright 'hot spot' just north of the filament's midpoint is UV radiation from sunspot 1112. The proximity is no coincidence; the filament appears to be rooted in the sunspot below. If the sunspot flares, it could cause the entire structure to erupt.

This active region merits watching and, indeed, it is big enough to see through backyard solar telescopes. If you have one, take a look!

http://www.spaceweather.com/

[Ponce]

This would be a very good time for the sun to explode and take us away with it.....

[StackerKen]

This would be a very good time for the sun to explode and take us away with it.....


??? :-\

[Gaillo]

We've had a solar minimum for how many years now? This solar maximum is going to be big one.
Probably not. The norm is that with long solar minimums, we get small, tepid, solar maximums... The earth is going to continue to cool down. The interesting thing will be with the next minimum. It could be the entrance of a new mini Ice age ala Maunder minimum or even a big Ice age...


Neuro,
I've been saying for years (to anyone who would listen...) that we are entering another ice-age. We're long overdue, and the solar data seems to support it as well.

[Horn]

This maximum portends to be the most minimum of maximums by far.

Mark my words.

http://www.britishbattles.com/images/trenton/washington-delaware-l.jpg

[Neuro]

We've had a solar minimum for how many years now? This solar maximum is going to be big one.
Probably not. The norm is that with long solar minimums, we get small, tepid, solar maximums... The earth is going to continue to cool down. The interesting thing will be with the next minimum. It could be the entrance of a new mini Ice age ala Maunder minimum or even a big Ice age...


Neuro,
I've been saying for years (to anyone who would listen...) that we are entering another ice-age. We're long overdue, and the solar data seems to support it as well.
Yes indeed Gaillo, this intermittent warm period has been exceptionally long, I think it has been the longest since 800.000 years back if I remember the ice-core research correctly. It is entirely possible that this intermittent warm period is ending in our lifetime, and becomes an ice-age, which actually is earths normal weather... Go south young man! I guess it could take another 1000 years though... Another interesting thing with the ice core research is that atmospheric CO2 lags temperature with 800 years, any reasonable scientist would conclude that this implies that temperature is the driver of CO2 not the other way around.

I hope future humans, or whatever, will find Al Gore frozen into a huge block of ice, and that they can revive him and laugh at his stories of global warming...

[platinumdude]

http://www.spaceweather.com/

A BIG SUNSPOT GETS BIGGER: Behemoth sunspot 1117 is not merely growing, it is transmogrifying. Click on the image to launch a two-day movie from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (8 MB):

Since yesterday, the shape-shifting sunspot has developed a "beta-gamma" magnetic field that harbors energy for M-class solar flares. Any such eruptions will likely be geoeffective because the sunspot is almost-squarely facing Earth. Readers with solar telescopes are encouraged to monitor developments.

[Filthy Keynes]

Does that mean we can see more of Al Goremonger in the future pimping his Gorebal Warming Hoax?

http://www.danzfamily.com/archives/blogphotos/07/759-al-gore-fire.jpg

[Horn]

http://www.spaceweather.com/

A BIG SUNSPOT GETS BIGGER: Behemoth sunspot 1117 is not merely growing, it is transmogrifying. Click on the image to launch a two-day movie from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (8 MB):

Since yesterday, the shape-shifting sunspot has developed a "beta-gamma" magnetic field that harbors energy for M-class solar flares. Any such eruptions will likely be geoeffective because the sunspot is almost-squarely facing Earth. Readers with solar telescopes are encouraged to monitor developments.





Notice it's in the inhaling mode currently.

Not trying to be negative...

http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2010/28oct10/twister768.gif?PHPSESSID=v6naid28b2k726p32k798cuaa 7

[platinumdude]

http://www.spaceweather.com

Active sunspot 1121 has unleashed one of the brightest x-ray solar flares in years, an M5.4-class eruption at 15:36 UT on Nov. 6th

Radiation from the flare created a wave of ionization in Earth's upper atmosphere that altered the propagation of low-frequency radio waves. There was, however, no bright CME (plasma cloud) hurled in our direction, so the event is unlikely to produce auroras in the nights ahead. This is the third M-flare in as many days from this increasingly active sunspot. So far none of the eruptions has been squarely Earth-directed, but this could change in the days ahead as the sun's rotation turns the active region toward our planet.

Also, NOAA forecasters estimate a 20% chance of X-class flares from sunspot 1121 during the next 24 hours.


I didn't think we could get any X-class flares this soon in the cycle.

[Horn]

I didn't think we could get any X-class flares this soon in the cycle.


Seems this cycle is somewhat different then the norm, while fewer spots, the ones that have come are not stronger, but more "prominent".