Clipmarks | Solar activity Clips

Expert: World is Entering a Little Ice Age

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:27:32 GMT

clipped by: pkronfield
clipper's remarks: At present, assured the world is going through a transition phase where solar activity diminishes considerably, "so that in two years or so, there will be a small ice age that lasts from 60 to 80 years," and the immediate consequence of this He added, will be drought.

Here's hoping Algore freezes his gonads off...whoops... forgot he has no gonads....

Clip Source: 209.85.171.104

Un experto de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México pronosticó que en alrededor de diez años la Tierra entrará a una “pequeña era de hielo” que durará de 60 a 80 años y será causada por la disminución de la actividad solar. An expert from the National Autonomous University of Mexico predicted that in about ten years the Earth will enter a "little ice age" which will last from 60 to 80 years and may be caused by the decrease in solar activity.

Víctor Manuel Velasco Herrera, investigador del Instituto de Geofísica de la UNAM, sostuvo lo anterior durante una conferencia que impartó en el Centro de Ciencias Aplicadas y Desarrollo Tecnológico. Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the UNAM, as argued earlier during a conference that teaches at the Centre for Applied Sciences and Technological Development.

Tags: global warming, loony left

Sun Activity Effects Climate The Most

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:04:20 GMT

clipped by: hlimjr

Clip Source: www.politickernj.com

According to recent news reports, a top observatory that has been measuring sun spot activity predicts that global temperatures will drop by two degrees over the next 20 years as solar activity slows and the planet drastically cools down. They suggest this could potentially herald the onset of a new ice age. Following the end of the sun’s most active period in over 11,000 years, the last 10 years have displayed a clear cooling trend as temperatures post-1998 leveled out and are now decreasing.

Earlier this year, John Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel, stated that manmade global warming is “the greatest scam in history,” adding, “I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam.” Coleman said the theory of global warming is based on fraudulent science.

Tags: climate

Mercury's magnetic field is alive

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:43:56 GMT

clipped by: mysticnook

Clip Source: science.nasa.gov

July 3, 2008: Mercury's magnetic field is "alive." Volcanic vents ring the planet's giant Caloris Basin. And Mercury has shrunk in on itself more than previously suspected.

"The basin was formed from an impact by an asteroid or comet during a period of heavy bombardment in the first billion years of Solar System history. As with the lunar maria, a period of volcanic activity followed, producing lava flows that filled the basin interior. This volcanism is responsible for the comparatively light, red material of the interior plains intermingled with [newer] impact crater deposits."

Until Mariner 10 discovered Mercury's magnetic field in the 1970s, Earth was the only other terrestrial planet known to have a global magnetic field

Mercury's field appears to be generated by an active dynamo in the planet's core

Mercury's magnetic field is mostly dipolar

Global Warming Consensus Rejected By Scientists

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:32:17 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: the world continues to cool. That is leading to increasing scepticism that the call to sacrifice living standards in order to "save the planet" is just political spin designed to persuade the public to accept green taxes."

Syun-Ichi Akasofu
"There are so many times the Earth was warmer than now, or colder than now. We are not affecting the climate change."

Lord Nigel Lawson
The consensus is breaking down because no matter how much the global warming agenda-setters may want us to be, people are not sheep, to be led around and told what to think and what to say. You can only lie to us for so long before the truth exposes your movement for what it is; a dogma based on faulty science and ulterior motives.

We've heard prediction after prediction after prediction about how the polar ice caps were absolutely inevitably going to melt away into nothingness this summer. Of course, they haven't. Not even close. You'd think that would put some humility into these Chicken Littles.

Clip Source: app.e2ma.net

Professor Kunihiko Takeda

"Global warming has nothing to do with how much CO2 is produced or what we do here on Earth. For millions of years, solar activity has been controlling temperatures on Earth and even now, the sun controls how high the mercury goes. CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another. Soon it will cool down anyhow, once again, regardless of what we do. Every scientist knows this, but it doesn't pay to say so. What makes a whole lot of economic and political sense is to blame global warming on humans and create laws that keep the status quo and prevent up-and-coming nations from developing. Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver's seat and developing nations walking barefoot."

Dr. Muriel New man

In fact, in a bizarre twist of fate, at a time when advocates of man-made global warming continue to push government policies to restrict energy use and the burning of fossil fuels in order to prevent 'catastrophic' warming,

Tags: "global warming", co2, "save the planet", green taxes, ulterior motives

Electrical Activity on Titan Confirmed: The Spark for Life?

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:03:34 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.universetoday.com

Titan not only has an atmosphere it has hydrocarbon lakes, oceans, sand dunes and now research has just been published proving Saturn's moon is sparkling with electrical activity. Scientists are in general agreement that organic molecules, the precursors to life on Earth, are a consequence of lightning in the atmosphere

using data from the Huygens probe

scientists have "unequivocally" proven that Titan has electrical storms

causing much excitement as this could mean that organic compounds may be found in abundance

The fruits from the Cassini-Huygens mission are coming thick and fast. Only yesterday, Nancy reviewed the discovery of liquid hydrocarbon lakes

Now Titan has all the necessary components for life; it has an atmosphere with electrical activity, increasing the opportunity for prebiotic organic compounds to form, thus increasing the possibility for life to evolve

Titan is already considered a "unique world in the solar system"

Tags: astronomy, titan, life, solar system, saturn

Breaking News: The Sun is Still Doing Nothing (Much)

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:09:21 GMT

clipped by: dooria
clipper's remarks: The more magnetic activity there is, more sunspots appear. But, it would seem, the Sun remains magnetically inactive seven months since the beginning of Solar Cycle 24…

Clip Source: www.astroengine.com

As you can see, the Sun is keeping quiet, devoid of sunspots. As the world awaits an increase in solar activity to celebrate the onset of a new solar cycle, our closest star keeps a blank face and keeps us guessing.

The disk of the Sun as viewed by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO/MDI)

This most recent image was taken today by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) instrument. MDI measures plasma velocity and magnetic field strength at the top of the convection zone, so it is an invaluable sunspot detector. Sunspots are a good indicator about how active the Sun is, as when the magnetic field becomes stressed and twisted, it is forced from the convection zone, through the photosphere, chromosphere and high into the corona. These protrusions then fill with plasma and glow as coronal loops.

Tags: solar

New eruption on the Sun!

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:56:12 GMT

clipped by: mariana3
clipper's remarks: Note: To view the movie, you probably need to go directly to the site (spaceweather.com)

Clip Source: www.spaceweather.com

OVER THE HORIZON: NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft has beamed back a movie of a spectacular eruption on the sun's eastern limb. Click on the image to launch a 6 MB mpeg:

The movie spans a two day period, July 12-14, and shows a blob of gas five times the size of Earth being hurled away from the sun. Earth was not in the "line of fire" so no geomagnetic storms or auroras resulted from the blast.

Astronomers on Earth witnessed only the upper regions of the explosion. From our point of view, the action took place over the sun's horizon. STEREO-B, however, has a different point of view. STEREO-B shares Earth's orbit around the sun (approximately), but lags behind Earth by about 30 degrees. This allows the spacecraft to see "around the bend," revealing solar activity hidden from terrestrial eyes.

Seeing the hidden side of the sun is just one of many benefits of the ongoing STEREO mission; learn more from nasa.gov.

Tags: astronomy, sun, solar system, climate, geoscience

APOD: The International Space Station Transits the Sun

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:16:11 GMT

clipped by: pussycatdoll

Clip Source: apod.nasa.gov

2008 July 30

The International Space Station Transits the Sun

Explanation: That's no sunspot. It's the International Space Station (ISS) caught by chance passing in front of the Sun. Sunspots, individually, have a dark central umbra, a lighter surrounding penumbra, and no solar panels. By contrast, the ISS is a complex and multi-spired mechanism, one of the largest and most sophisticated machines ever created by humanity. Also, sunspots occur on the Sun, whereas the ISS orbits the Earth. Transiting the Sun is not very unusual for the ISS, which orbits the Earth about every 90 minutes, but getting one's timing and equipment just right for a great image is rare. Strangely, besides that fake spot, the Sun, last week, lacked any real sunspots. Sunspots have been rare on the Sun since the dawn of the current Solar Minimum, a period of low solar activity.

Tags: astronomy

Astrophysicist Dr. Nir Shaviv

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:21:30 GMT

clipped by: willhelm

Clip Source: epw.senate.gov

recanted his belief that man-made emissions were driving climate change. "Like many others, I was personally sure that CO2 is the bad culprit in the story of global warming. But after carefully digging into the evidence, I realized that things are far more complicated than the story sold to us by many climate scientists or the stories regurgitated by the media. In fact, there is much more than meets the eye," Shaviv said in a February 2, 2007 Canadian National Post article. According to Shaviv, the CO2 temperature link is only "incriminating circumstantial evidence." "Solar activity can explain a large part of the 20th-century global warming" and "it is unlikely that [the solar climate link] does not exist," Shaviv noted, pointing to the impact cosmic- rays have on the atmosphere. According to the National Post, Shaviv believes that even a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere by 2100 "will not dramatically increase the global temperature."

Tags: global warming, climate change

Theory on Relationship of Sunspots and Jovian Planets

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:40:45 GMT

clipped by: willhelm

Clip Source: www.americanthinker.com

But the most fascinating and encouraging news for the deniers is from Australian astrophysicists I.R.G. Wilson, B.D. Carter, and I.A. Waite. They have developed a theory that the sunspot cycle and its intensity is driven by the gravitational relationships between the Sun and the Jovian planets Jupiter and Saturn.

The Sun wobbles a bit around the center of the Solar System. Sometimes the center of the Solar System lies outside the surface of the Sun, only 1,000 times heavier than Jupiter and 3,000 times heavier than Saturn. All that wobbling seems to affect the behavior of the Sun.

Here is the nub of the paper, as explained by author Ian Wilson to Andrew Bolt.

It supports the contention that the level of activity on the Sun will significantly diminish sometime in the next decade and remain low for about 20 - 30 years. On each occasion that the Sun has done this in the past the World's mean temperature has dropped by ~ 1 - 2 C.

Global Change Master Diretory - NASA

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:52:11 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator

Clip Source: gcmd.nasa.gov


			Agriculture forest science, soils ...

			Atmosphere precipitation, air quality ...

			Biosphere ecosystems, vegetation...

			Biological Classification animals/invertebrates, plants...

			Climate Indicators air temperature, drought ...

			Cryosphere frozen ground, sea ice ...

			Human Dimensions land use, population ...

			Data Centers Projects Instruments / Sensors Platforms / Sources


		Land Surface erosion, topography ...

		Oceans ocean temperature , salinity ...

		Paleoclimate ice cores, land records ...

		Solid Earth geochemistry, seismology ...

		Spectral / Engineering radar, visible imagery ...

		Sun-Earth Interactions auroras, solar activity ...

		Terrestrial Hydrosphere ground water, water quality ...

		Map / Date Search or Location Name Search

Webmaster: Monica Holland
Responsible NASA Official: Lola Olsen
Last Updated: July 2008

Tags: global, change, master diretory, - nasa, goddard, monica

What's Wrong with the Sun? (Nothing)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:31:04 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: There was a clip last night which expressed justifiable concern. This paints a clearer picture. No need to worry yet.

Clip Source: science.nasa.gov

So says NASA solar physicist David Hathaway. "There have been some reports lately that Solar Minimum is lasting longer than it should. That's not true. The ongoing lull in sunspot number is well within historic norms for the solar cycle."

This report, that there's nothing to report, is newsworthy because of a growing buzz in lay and academic circles that something is wrong with the sun. Sun Goes Longer Than Normal Without Producing Sunspots declared one recent press release. A careful look at the data, however, suggests otherwise.

But first, a status report: "The sun is now near the low point of its 11-year activity cycle," says Hathaway. "We call this 'Solar Minimum.' It is the period of quiet that separates one Solar Max from another."

Above: The solar cycle, 1995-2015. The "noisy" curve traces measured sunspot numbers; the smoothed curves are predictions. Credit: D. Hathaway/NASA/MSFC. [more]

Tags: astronomy

Planetary line up excites the sun

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:47:19 GMT

clipped by: pokkets
clipper's remarks: The equatorial region of the sun spins more rapidly than the poles, and this differential rotation winds up the magnetic field lines like a rubber band
sunspots typically appear wherever these magnetic field lines bubble to the surface.
They still have to do more testing, but it makes more sense than other theories such as tidal forces, or the movement of the sun around the solar system's center of gravity, which don't seem to have a significant enough effect.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Marilyn Head

Australian astronomers may have found a solution to how far-away Jupiter and Saturn drive the sun's solar cycle.

In a paper published in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, astronomer Dr Ian Wilson and colleagues from the University of Southern Queensland, suggest Jupiter and Saturn affect the sun's movement and its rotation, and hence its sunspot activity.

Every 11 years the sun undergoes a period of intense solar activity, marked by flares, coronal mass ejections and sunspots. This period is known as the solar maximum and occurs twice each solar, or Hale, cycle.

the tiny gravitational tugs of Jupiter and Saturn speed up or slow down the sun's orbital motion about the centre-of-mass, when they are aligned or separated by an angular distance of 90 degrees.

when the sun's orbital motion changes, so too does its equatorial rotation rate

provides

circumstantial evidence

there is a spin-orbit coupling mechanism operating between Jupiter and Saturn and the sun

India in solar energy push as climate plan launched

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:20:09 GMT

clipped by: Socratoad

Clip Source: www.solardaily.com

India in solar energy push as climate plan launched

New Delhi (AFP) June 30, 2008
India on Monday released a national plan to tackle climate change with a focus on renewable energy, but stuck by its refusal to specify targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Under the National Action Plan on Climate Change, the country will gradually move towards renewable sources of energy and focus on solar energy.

"We must pioneer a graduated shift from economic activity based on fossil fuels to one based on non-fossil fuels and from reliance on non-renewable... to renewable sources of energy," Premier Manmohan Singh said at the launch

"In this strategy, the sun occupies centre stage, as it should, being literally the original source of all energy," Singh said.

Dynamic Architecture

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:57:18 GMT

clipped by: splendidus
clipper's remarks: Rotating towers...

Clip Source: www.dynamicarchitecture.net

DYNAMIC TOWER | DUBAI

Clip Source: www.dynamicarchitecture.net

ABOUT DR. DAVID FISHER

Dr. Fisher's professional activity has always been focused on two concepts: an industrial approach involving the use of prefabricated units, and Dynamic Architecture, where the traditional three-dimensional design meets a fourth dimension: Time. With his new Dynamic Towers, he is transforming time to herald a New Era of Architecture.

Clip Source: www.dynamicarchitecture.net

A NEW ERA OF GREEN BUILDING

The building generates electricity from wind turbines mounted horizontally between each floor

Another environmentally green element of the Dynamic Tower is the photovoltaic cells that will be placed on the roof of each rotating floor to produce solar energy, approximately 20% of each roof will be exposed to the sun, so a building that has 80 roofs will equal the roofing space of 10 similar size buildings.

Clip Source: www.dynamicarchitecture.net

Moscow Rotating Skyscraper

Clip Source: www.dynamicarchitecture.net

PREFABRICATION

The prefabricated units arrive at the building site ready for quick and efficient installatio

Tags: dynamic architecture, architecture, rotating towers