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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Solar cycle 24 has officially started
2008-01-06
The first reverse polarity sunspots have been spotted, so it's time to make your bets re: sunspot activity in this cycle & their effects on weather (short term) and climate (longer term).

More

here, including some historical trend info

detailed consensus forecasts here

and science blog interprets here
Posted by:lotp

#11  RUMORMILLNEWS > NORWEGIAN POLITICIAN: PLANET X IS JUST APPROACHING/COMING. Claims 'tis the reason Norway + Israel, etc. is rushing to complete new nationwide undergound bunkers and facilities
"BEFORE 2011"???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-01-06 23:06  

#10  COASTTOCOASTAM RADIO SHOW > JOHN JAY HARPER - Solar Cycle 24 may harbringer a DISASTROUS CYCLE OF EVENTS for the world.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-01-06 22:59  

#9  FUTURE COLD SPELL.

DREAM/VISION - snow flurries and piles on Guam roads; a young shipyard worker looks out of a drydock endsection and sees a PORTOPS tug struggling to get a large ship thru Guam's Apra Harbor in ICY DENSE FOG. A FUTURE GUAM DAY, OF A FUTURE GENERATION.

MADONNA > "HEY YOU" song.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-01-06 22:37  

#8  prior positive cycles have corresponded somewhat with warmer climate

however that does not mean that a negative cycle will mean colder climate

in any event the correlation comes with a low magnitude impact on temperature - in the neighborhood of a quarter of a degree centigrade
Posted by: mhw   2008-01-06 22:07  

#7  "Important and significant changes taking place on the surface of the sun" > Formerly tropical torrid Guam as COLD, ICY, and DENSELY FOGGY as anywhere else??? The good news is that in future when the Sun expands, we won't be as cold anymore.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-01-06 21:54  

#6  Solar Cycle 24 - Jack Bauer stops global warming.
Posted by: DMFD   2008-01-06 21:27  

#5  AlGore had a paid speaking engagement on the sun. The Gore Effect™ never fails. We're doomed
Posted by: Frank G   2008-01-06 14:41  

#4  Yah, the sun really knew its place back then.
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman   2008-01-06 13:35  

#3  This would have never happened under Clinton.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2008-01-06 11:35  

#2  Astronomers have been counting sunspots since the days of Galileo, watching solar activity rise and fall every 11 years. Curiously, four of the five biggest cycles on record have come in the past 50 years. "Cycle 24 should fit right into that pattern," says Hathaway.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.... So you say that this intense solar activity pattern has occured in the last 50 years, do you? Could this have anything to do with the 'hockeystick' variation (other than cooking data) of temperature that's been widely touted as caused by human-caused greenhouse gases?
Posted by: WTF   2008-01-06 10:57  

#1  It is because Bush didn't sign the treaty and global warming will kill us all!!! Impeach Bush for destroying the planet and the Sun!!!

/liberal moonbat
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-01-06 09:38  

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