On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote:
> > We're currently coming out of a solar minimum (and the global temp > kept rising in spite of what climate change deniers predicted) however > recent evidence is showing that the solar minimum may be dropping to a > point where sunspots just don't form. Some scientists theorize that > this is what happened during the last "little ice age" in the 1600s > and 1700s. The evidence on the sunspots isn't conclusive yet nor is > the modeling of what would happen to temps if it is true. Something to > look at and think about however. This article also points out that > even if temps did stabilize/drop as a result, it wouldn't probably > change a number of other important issues related to rising CO2 levels > like ocean acidification. > > Interesting stuff: > > http://ksjtracker.mit.edu/2010/09/15/aaas-sciencenow-the-way-things-are-going-sunspots-will-disappear-in-five-years-and-earth-might-cool-off/ > > Sun spots or not, we're still going to get solar storms, that's our #1 problem right now since wer'e heading into a solar maximum. It would just take 1 big solar storm bursting directly at us to knock us back to the stone ages. Well not exactly... but it could distrupt things like electricity for months, that in turn will bring out the national guard and martial law as everyone goes crazy trying to find food. Better get use to killing Zombies now! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:327279 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
