Sun's wind and output on extended dimmer switch
WASHINGTON -- The sun has dialled back its furnace to the lowest levels seen in the space age, new measurements from a space probe show.
But don't worry -- it's too small a difference to change life on Earth, scientists say.
Right, could it mean global cooling? No furnace, no heat.
And for the first time in about a century, the sun went for two months this summer without sunspots, said NASA solar physicist David Hathaway.
That record was broken Monday when a cluster of eight sunspots surfaced.
Sunspots are temporary regions of high magnetic activity that from Earth appear to be black splotches.
The cause for the sun's slight weakening seems to be a change in its magnetic flux, said Dave McComas of the Southwest Research Institute......
But scientists said Tuesday the sun is in "a very prolonged minimum." Typically a solar minimum lasts about a year, but this low point has gone on since the summer of 2006.
It is "like turning down the heat on a stove," said McComas, a scientist who used the Ulysses solar probe to document a significantly weaker solar wind.
Global cooling, not warming, but the faux scientists won't admit it, they might lose their funding. The media won't tell you about it because it will decrease paper sales, and make them look like idiots because they have been shrilling for the eco-nuts.
Funny, Suzuki was in Edmonton today, and my husband was at the conference, he couldn't understand why no-one was there. The bloom is frost bitten, and people are starting to understand that a carbon tax, is a tax grab by Liberal elitists and phony carbon credit companies.
What will be happening 4 years from now, during the next election? Will the Liberals be promoting a cooling tax? It has become increasingly obvious that global warming is a scam, and Canadians aren't buying it anymore. Why aren't the opposition parties YELLING about Kyoto and how the Conservatives killed it? HA, chickens. Speaking of chickens....
A cartoon leader for the Liberals. Every time he shakes his head, he reminds me of Beavis and Butthead, every time he talks about the green shift, he reminds me of Kermit.
It's not easy being green, especially if you can't get your carbon tax off the ground, to fund all your social programs. What scares me the most is that once a carbon tax is imposed on us, it will be such a money generator for the government they will never get rid of it, like the GST.
Say NO to a carbon tax.
