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Will Earth's Future Be a FROZEN One?
| Quote From Source: | The disappearance of sun spots was the hot topic at a recent international solar conference held at Montana State University. For the past two years, the sun has undergone a phase of relative inactivity, meaning usual solar phenomena such as sun flares, sun spots, and solar eruptions have all but disappeared. "It's a dead face," researcher Saku Tsuneta says of the solar surface.
Tsuneta is with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and was one of the participants at the MSU conference The good news is that without such intense solar activity disruptions to space technology and even our beloved gadgets here on earth have been minimal. While this provides some relief to those of us whose cell phones dropped calls at the tiniest solar flare, scientists are concerned that this means bigger things to come for Earth's climate.
Dana Longcope, a solar physicist at MSU, explains that the sun generally runs on an 11-year cycle and that there is usually a minimum of activity as the cycles change. The last cycle peak was in 2001 and the next cycle is predicted to peak around 2012. The sun is now as inactive as it was two years ago, and scientists aren't sure why. Some have even suggested that the inactivity portents the beginning of a new ice age.
Geophysicist Phil Chapman, the first Australian NASA astronaut, confirms that there are indeed no sun spots currently on the solar surface. He also notes that the earth has cooled by about 0.7 degrees Celsius between January 2007 and January 2008, and says, "This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930."
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If you look at the bottom of that article they have previous articles about the sun. One of them is "Don't blame the sun for climate change."
Seems they just print whatever... |
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Unknown Country is Whitely Strieber's website which is enough to take with a salt bed full of salt. Interestingly enough, in 1999 Strieber and Art Bell co-authored the Coming Global Super Storm, which the Day After Tomorrow is based on. |
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the book is better, as usual. |
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Whitley Strieber is certifiably fucking nuts. |
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Agreed 550%, |
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Reading Communion as a Teenager was one of the trippiest reads of my life, up there with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but for different reasons, and in a different way. Every noise, weird memory, or weird happening was an alien. If you looked at it as a horror novel, it was one of the great ones.
As anything else, the dude is a lunatic. |
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No book ever scared me like that. |
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I was more refering to his insistance that he was abducted by aliens.
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| Quote: | On December 26, 1985, Strieber reportedly had an experience in which he thought he was abducted from his cabin in upstate New York by non-human beings of some kind.
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| Quote: | In the pre-dawn hours of June 6, 1998, Strieber was reportedly visited in his Toronto hotel room by a mysterious but apparently human man, who delivered an unsolicited lecture covering various subjects from spirituality to the environment. The man gave no name, but Strieber has taken to referring to him as the "Master of the Key."
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Dude is completely nucking futs.... |
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agreed. |
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Oh man, if you ever heard the guy on the radio, he's even more nuts than his wikipedia page leads you to believe. |
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I remember when he talked about the "visitor" in Toronto on Art Bell. The dude is, as you say, "certifiably fucking nuts." |
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oh - uhm - any comments about the ARTICLES ? |
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It's nothing that *we* don't already know and have been saying for months.... |
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I thought this " ... the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record ... " was quite interesting. |
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What's going on with the sun is very concerning. |
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you got that right. I think this might be a
'record setting' winter. |
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id have to agree. |
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I hope so. I need a cold (highs in the 20s would be good, lows near 10  ), and snowy (~10-15 inches per month in Dec-Jan-Feb) winter. It's happened here at sea level in the past quite a lot...just not in a while unfortunately.
"The rain it raineth every day, and every night also -- week in and week out, from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, there is nothing but rain, rain, rain, 'The windows of heaven are opened up.' Pluvius, grieved at some earth-giving wrong, weeps as if he never would dry up." - Overland Press (Olympia, WA), December 1861 |
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| Quoting thedood - posted on 7/2/2008 at 22:30 |
I hope so. I need a cold (highs in the 20s would be good, lows near 10 ), and snowy (~10-15 inches per month in Dec-Jan-Feb) winter. It's happened here at sea level in the past quite a lot...just not in a while unfortunately.
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No thanks. If you get that, that means we will too. |
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The Sun. Possibly Chaiten (hard to say at this point). Lets hope the ocean currents don't go wonkers again, or we could be in for one HELL of a winter. |
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yeah, im hoping for another great snow season. |
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