No Sunspots in August Points to Global Cooling?
Normally at the beginning of each month, I do a post on some of the weather records from the previous month. This month’s notable record, however, has less to do with the weather than it does with the atmosphere. The Daily Tech is reporting that August was the first month in 100 years with no sunspots. Why is this significant? Historical record show that the lack of sunspots correlate closely with periods of global cooling. According to the article,
In the past 1000 years, three previous such events — the Dalton, Maunder, and Spörer Minimums, have all led to rapid cooling. One was large enough to be called a “mini ice age”. For a society dependent on agriculture, cold is more damaging than heat. The growing season shortens, yields drop, and the occurrence of crop-destroying frosts increases.
Now, I won’t say we’re going into a mini Ice Age. But, global temperatures have not been following the model predicted by the global warming agonistes; instead the increase in temperature has leveled off in recent years, corresponding to the reduced number of sunspots. Of course, since Al Gore and his crowd can’t control sunspots, much less cow flatulence, it’s much easier to blame carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles and power plants.
Hat tip to the Drudge Report for alerting me to this article.
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September 5th, 2008 at 1:34 am
Sorry but I have to correct that article, just because a spot didn’t receive a number does not mean there were no spots…Most people, including scientists, obviously, don’t know on the 21st a short lived but well defined active regions spawned 2 clear sunspots which can be seen in this picture from my website:
http://www.seemysunspot.com/solar_pics2/0821_rapavy1.jpg
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