tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post776040090296476265..comments2024-03-28T12:58:35.757-04:00Comments on Borepatch: The curious case of the planet Uranus and its connection to the price of tea in ChinaBorepatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-73182056696123013652010-12-27T20:47:41.329-05:002010-12-27T20:47:41.329-05:00You've hit on one of my favorite topics. See,...You've hit on one of my favorite topics. See, I'm a radio amateur (ham) so I am vitally interested in sunspots. There are researchers who say we are <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/20/a-dalton-minimum-repeat-is-shaping-up/" rel="nofollow">entering a Dalton minimum</a>, or worse. Livingston and Penn, from the NOAO McMath Solar Observatory, put out a paper almost 10 years ago saying that if the trend lines for sunspot darkness and magnetic field intensity kept going, there would be no sunspots by 2015.<br /><br />One thing to add to your info is that we have records of sunspots that go back a long way, but modern methods are so much more sensitive that it's a fight to not count things that we are pretty sure would not have shown up over a hundred years ago. Modern sunspot numbers may trend higher than older numbers.SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-59803580998677157182010-12-27T17:46:55.870-05:002010-12-27T17:46:55.870-05:00We have two frequently neglected sources for gener...We have two frequently neglected sources for general sunspot data. <br /><br />The first comes from the Chinese, who regarded sunspots as, among other things, an illness of the sun. While a count by spots taken by observing an image in a pinhole camera of sorts cannot be directly compared to the modern "sunspot numbers," there is more than enough data there to establish trends. <br /><br />The second also comes from the Orient. Aurora. When the records mention aurora almost daily for centuries you can wager the sun was jumping. And when records of aurora become as rare as rain in the Atacama, you can bet on a solar minimum. <br /><br />For climate - we have bog pollens, trade routes, and freezeup dates. All are greatly and periodically affected by climate - and all say it is time for another "little ice age." <br /><br />StrangerStrangerhttp://extranosalley.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-75861263393851513352010-12-27T14:22:57.659-05:002010-12-27T14:22:57.659-05:00Carbon is just a proxy for Capitalism - the Left o...Carbon is just a proxy for Capitalism - the Left only fights proxy battles (unless it fights amongst itself eg: Stalin/Hitler and the battle field of the Spanish Civil War) because it cannot win in open discourse.NotClauswitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358707844087117280noreply@blogger.com