[Yaesu] sunspots

Sun Sep 7 23:57:41 EDT 2008

While I'm not a global warming denier and would rather not get into 
that whole issue here, I must say that although it is true that we 
have not had a sunspotless month in a long long time, the statement is 
kind of insignificant because it applies our calendar to what the sun 
does, as if the sun is aware of how we measure time. We have had 
three or four 30 day or longer periods without sunspots since 1913, 
but they spanned two months so no one month was entirely free of 
sunspots after 1913.
73
rob / k5uj
>> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Tom Bates" <tlbates at lr.net>
> Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 15:40:47 -0400
>>> Then, Read this and weep.......
>> Tom AA1NZ
>>>>>> FROM:
>> http://www.iceagenow.com/Zero_Sunspots-First_Spotless_Month_in_a_Century
>> htm
>>>> Zero Sunspots - First Spotless Month in a Century
>> ______________________________
>>>>>> 1 Sep 08 - "The sun has reached a milestone not seen for nearly 100 
>> years:
>> an entire month has passed without a single visible sunspot being 
>> noted.
>>>> "The event is significant as many climatologists now believe solar 
>> magnetic
>> activity - which determines the number of sunspots -- is an 
>> influencing
>> factor for climate on earth.
>>>> "The last time such an event occurred was June of 1913.
>>>> "When the sun is active, it's not uncommon to see sunspot numbers 
>> of 100 or
>> more in a single month. Every 11 years, activity slows, and numbers
>> briefly drop to near-zero.
>>>> "Normally sunspots return very quickly, as a new cycle begins.
>>>> "But this year -- which corresponds to the start of Solar Cycle 24 
>> -- has
>> been extraordinarily long and quiet, with the first seven months 
>> averaging
>> a sunspot number of only 3. August followed with none at all. The
>> astonishing rapid drop of the past year has defied predictions, and 
>> caught
>> nearly all astronomers by surprise.
>>>> "In 2005, a pair of astronomers from the National Solar Observatory 
>> (NSO)
>> in Tucson ? reached the startling result that, within 10 years, 
>> sunspots
>> would vanish entirely. At the time, the sun was very active. Most 
>> of their
>> peers laughed at what they considered an unsubstantiated conclusion.
>>>> "The paper's lead author, William Livingston, tells DailyTech that, 
>> while
>> the refusal may have been justified at the time, recent data fits his
>> theory well. He says he will be "secretly pleased" if his 
>> predictions come
>> to pass.
>>>> "But will the rest of us?
>>>> "In the past 1000 years, three previous such events -- the Dalton, 
>> Maunder,
>> and Sporer Minimums, have all led to rapid cooling. One was large 
>> enough to
>> be called a "mini ice age". For a society dependent on agriculture, 
>> cold is
>> more damaging than heat. The growing season shortens, yields drop, 
>> and the
>> occurrence of crop-destroying frosts increases.
>>>> " ?What is incontrovertible, though, is that ice ages have occurred
>> before. And no scientist, even the most skeptical, is prepared to 
>> say it
>> won't happen again.
>>>> What can I say? I am getting very concerned.
>>>> See complete article, with many charts:
>> http://www.dailytech.com/Sun+Makes+History+First+Spotless+Month+in+a+Cen
>> tury/article12823.htm
>> Thanks to Lloyd Robins, Justin, Alan Caruba, Tim Rian and Marc 
>> Morano for
>> this link
>>>> See also:
>> http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/sun-poised-to-make-first
>> -spotless-month-since-1913/
>>>> See also: Recent Global COOLING report: Part 1:
>>>> http://www.rightsidenews.com/200808211777/energy-and-environment/global-
>> cooling-global-war ming-has-ended-scientists-agree.html
>>>> & Part 2:
>> http://www.rightsidenews.com/200808211778/editorial/spotless-sum-prompts
>> -scientist-to-fear -dramatic-turn-into-global-cooling.html
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