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IPS – Solar Conditions – Monthly Sunspot Numbers

March 10, 2006:

Like the quiet before a storm.

This week researchers announced that a storm is coming–the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). “The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one,” she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958.

When the belt is turning “fast,” it means that lots of magnetic fields are being swept up, and that a future sunspot cycle is going to be intense. This is a basis for forecasting: “The belt was turning fast in 1986-1996,” says Hathaway. “Old magnetic fields swept up then should re-appear as big sunspots in 2010-2011.”

Like most experts in the field, Hathaway has confidence in the conveyor belt model and agrees with Dikpati that the next solar maximum should be a doozy. But he disagrees with one point. Dikpati’s forecast puts Solar Max at 2012. Hathaway believes it will arrive sooner, in 2010 or 2011.

Solar Storm Warning – NASA Science

Climate change is a poorly defined term, which requires the formal definition below.

• Warm weather
• Cold weather
• Lukewarm weather
• Wet weather
• Dry weather
• Weather that is neither wet nor dry
• Windy weather
• Calm weather
• Breezy weather
• Stormy weather
• Volcanoes
• Earthquakes
• Fires

All of the events above are climate change. For example, Colorado was warm and dry earlier in the month, and now it is cold and wet. Colorado never had hot, cold, dry or wet weather before. The dice are loaded, and it is due to climate change. The tsunami which hit Japan last year was also due to climate change.

It is important however not to blame everything on climate change. Some things are GWB’s fault, and other things are the fault of YouTube.

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h/t to Dave G

I spent yesterday evening with a 60 year Fort Collins resident, who said that yesterday’s three hour downpour at her house was the hardest she had ever seen.

Needless to say, it saddened me greatly to find out this morning that we are having an extreme drought.

US Drought Monitor

I was watching David Attenborough’s “Planet Earth” and was saddened to discover that many animals spend much of their day engaged in violence against other animals. Their goal appears to be to kill and eat other animals, though we all know that these soft furry creatures would never actually do that.

All violence in the animal kingdom is caused by man-made CO2.

“There are signs that Allah will grant victory to Islam in Europe without swords, without guns, without conquest. We don’t need terrorists, we don’t need homicide bombs. The 50+ million Muslims in Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.”

– Muammar al-Gaddafi

Polar bears can’t survive without sea ice, and they all died of shock this summer after the record minimum was announced. The warm summer in Colorado killed all the Pikas, and the excess ice in Antarctica caused the Penguins to have to march too far – so they all died.

On September 27, 1923, the temperature in Minocqua, Wisconsin was 85 degrees. Today’s forecast high is 63 degrees. One of the effects of man-made CO2 is more frequent and intense heatwaves.

HAMweather Climate Center – Record Events for The Past Week – Northern Plains View

‘Follow the Islamic way to save the world,’ Prince Charles urges

Prince Charles yesterday urged the world to follow Islamic ‘spiritual principles’ in order to protect the environment.

In an hour-long speech, the heir to the throne argued that man’s destruction of the world was contrary to the scriptures of all religions – but particularly those of Islam.

He said the current ‘division’ between man and nature had been caused not just by industrialisation, but also by our attitude to the environment – which goes against the grain of ‘sacred traditions’….

He added: ‘The inconvenient truth is that we share this planet with the rest of creation for a very good reason – and that is, we cannot exist on our own without the intricately balanced web of life around us.

‘Islam has always taught this and to ignore that lesson is to default on our contract with creation.’

‘Follow the Islamic way to save the world,’ Charles urges environmentalists | Mail Online

Charles thought that Di was supposed to have an “e” on the end of it.