Wonder why it's so cold

[Robert L. Barney]

The cold year, and this particularly cold summer, are a result of reduced solar activity. You can follow the sun at:

http://spaceweather.com/

Note the sunspot count which is currently zero. Sunspots are magnetic storms on the sun which stir the sun like a spoon in a pot of boiling soup. When the sun is spotless there are less emissions which means it is sending us less heat.

And it is interesting to look at sunspot activity over past years:

http://spaceweather.com/glossary/sunspotnumber.html

And 2009 is on track to set another record breaking year for spotless activity:

http://spaceweather.com/glossary/spo...8augthua3 uu0

Last year was a record setter as well (about 260 spotless days) the second quietest year in the last century (see the above chart). But 2009 has already had 167 spotless days with about 150 days left in the year.

But it takes time for the cooling and warming trends of the sun, to be experienced on earth, because the earth stores heat and stores cold. After the sun has cooled, we are still warming due to stored heat. And after the sun warms, it takes time for the earth to respond accordingly. That's why summer's longest day is at the end of June (the most sun we get in the norther hemisphere) but the hottest temperatures don't occur until August. The same is true in the winter. The shortest day is in December but the coldest days are in February.

So not only is this summer cooler because of an inactive sun, next year is likely to be just as cold if not even colder.

We'll see what the global warming hucksters do with that.

[Robert L. Barney]

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories...julystats.html

[Robert L. Barney]

I'm going out on a limb here. I think we are on track to a record setting year of sun spotless days and I think we are repeating a cycle from the beginning of the 20th century.

Here are 3 record setting years in the early 1900's:

1911 - 200 days
1912 - 255 days
1913 - 310 days

Here are another 3 years to compare:

2007 - 160 days
2008 - 260 days
2009 - 183 (and counting)

So far 2009 has had 79% spotless days and if that continues, we are on track for about 288 spotless days.

I wondered about the temperatures for 1914 and did a little searching:

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/02/ny...eezy-damp.html

And note that 1914 FOLLOWED the three year record lull in sun spots.

I think as cool as it has been this year, 2010 will eclipse it.

Once again the thing that drives earth's temperatures is the sun, NOT man's activity.

[Robert L. Barney]

From this article:

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2...larminimum.htm

"Since the Space Age began in the 1950s, solar activity has been generally high," notes Hathaway. "Five of the ten most intense solar cycles on record have occurred in the last 50 years. We're just not used to this kind of deep calm."

Deep calm was fairly common a hundred years ago. The solar minima of 1901 and 1913, for instance, were even longer than the one we're experiencing now. To match those minima in terms of depth and longevity, the current minimum will have to last at least another year.

[Robert L. Barney]

This graph is interesting:

[Robert L. Barney]

From this article, from 2004:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3869753.stm

This is why things were quite warm but why things have been cooling off.

Man made global warming is BS, and Cap and Trade is even bigger BS.

[lechuga1]

Originally Posted by Robert L. Barney

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories...julystats.html

lol i know who did it

[Robert L. Barney]

Are global warming scientists actually engaging in a conspiracy to cover up the fact that they now know global warming IS NOT HAPPENING:

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/a...y_hacked#63657

Now the good news for global warming hucksters is the fact that it would appear that the sun is getting a little more active, but the key word to date is "little":

http://spaceweather.com/

243 days without spots this year is significant given that the year is now tied with the 4th quietest in the last century. This now makes 2007, 2008 and 2009 a string of 3 years of historically low solar activity. Read my earlier posts for why that is important. Needless to say, it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the sun, and NOT CO2, is the reason for climate change.

I mean, on the face of it is so obvious that global warming hucksters are part of the modern flat earth society. Global warming is a new age religion.

[Robert L. Barney]

Former Thatcher Science Advisor Unleashed: 'Fraud is what we now know it to be'

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/viscoun...pjm-exclusive/

[Robert L. Barney]

Global warming apologists run for cover:

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/a...eanalyisi ng/