Sun's Fading Spots Signal a Big Drop in Solar Activity
 

Announcement today at American Astronomical Society meeting. This if true could be very important, if this turns into a Mauder minimum situation we could be looking at a growing season in the Northern Hemisphere that is 30 to 60 days shorter.

They can't predict Solar activity accurately (see the post on Chaos & computer models) However they are Observing (empirical data) significant changes that are bigger than anticipated (many had predicted a quieter sun than normal but we may be going below those predictions.

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A lot of commentary here and discussions of implications based on studies that have been out for awhile.


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Re: Sun's Fading Spots Signal a Big Drop in Solar Activity
 

The sun in general has looked far more orange than yellow here in North Florida, could be becuase of wild fire haze off in the distance, but's it a very odd looking sun thes epast 2 days.

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Could be the big wildfire in Az.

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This is important as it is the sun that drives climate. Is this related to the talk a year or so ago about us possible entering a period of global cooling?

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That is correct. This report goes further and indicated a scenario where the sun spots stop altogether for ???? time?

If you look at teh graph if the Gauss falls below 1500= no sun spots at all, at the current rate that could happen 5 years out.

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It's actually due to the deveral large wildfires here in NorthFlorida... for the past 3 weeks Jacksonville has been blanketed in smoke, and it's even rained ash more than a few times.

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BTW IF, we see a Dalton or Mauder type minimumit will provide a test of wether the CO2 crowd is correct or not. Schmidy and Hansen are on record that CO2 doubling will cause a 3.7W/M increase in radiation they are on the record that an even like the Mauder would only have a -.5W/M reduction in radiation. We will also be able to see in there is an increase in cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere and causing cloud formation cooling the planet, as per Svensmark.

So if things cool the Algore crowd is wrong. The bigger problem is that if we see a prolonged period of cooling like the Little Ice Age, it could severely impact crop production.

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that's OK......there are plenty of empty commercial warehouses available to grow crap indoors........tomatoes the size of basketballs

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What about Wheat, Corn and Rice......?

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same thing.......

you can actually have 22 levels of wheat growing in a 50 foot-high warehouse.......that's 22 acres of wheat in a 50,000 square foot warehouse.......and the yield would be 4-5X per square foot due to the controlled environment. that's 100 acres of wheat in an industrial park somewhere near your house. you can literally have 3 harvests per year provided you maintain the soil (organic fertilization along with a bit of nitrogen)

the best thing about having problems is that someone gave us the ability to deal with them. the only thing that is more insane than the harm we are capable of inflicting upon ourselves is the things that people come up with to save themselves

Corn is a much lower yield given its height, but you could manage 4 or 5 levels.

Rice you could do underground, next to the mushrooms