Comments on: Global Warming: New Sunspot Cycle May Mean The Iceman Cometh http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2008/06/global-warming-new-sunspot-cycle-may-mean-the-iceman-cometh/ The WORLDWIDE LEADER in WEIRD ~~~ News - Politics - Commentary - Weird News - Crime - Opinion - Entertainment - Scandals - Celebrities - Video Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:31:34 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: John A. Jauregui http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2008/06/global-warming-new-sunspot-cycle-may-mean-the-iceman-cometh/comment-page-1/#comment-5701 John A. Jauregui Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:55:51 +0000 http://deathby1000papercuts.com/?p=1120#comment-5701 I just returned from visiting Yellowstone and was struck by the devastation of the 1988 fires, which were preceeded by acute drought and record setting dry lightening. I began to wonder what solar activity occured leading up the 1988 fire storms. Solar cycle 22 started just a couple of years before that summer of drought and dry lightening. Check this out. <strong>Relative to other cycles, that solar cycle had 1) a very fast rise time - 2.8 years, 2) a very short cycle length - 9.7 years, 3) a high minimum sun spot number - 12.3, and 4) a high maximum sun spot number - 158.5</strong> more: “Cycle 22 certainly provided us with many highlights. Early in the cycle the smoothed sunspot number (determined by the number of sunspots visible on the sun and used as the traditional measure of the cycle) climbed rapidly; in fact more rapidly than for any previously recorded cycle. This caused many to predict that it would eclipse Cycle 19 (peak sunspot number of 201) as the highest cycle on record. This was not to be as the sunspot number ceased climbing in early 1989 and reached a maximum in July of that year. Whilst not of record amplitude, Cycle 22 still rated as 4th of the recorded cycles and continued the run of recent large solar cycles (Cycles 18, 19 and 21 were all exceptional!). A very notable feature of Cycle 22 was that it had the shortest rise from minimum to maximum of any recorded cycle.” Material Prepared by Richard Thompson. © Copyright IPS - Radio and Space Services. I just returned from visiting Yellowstone and was struck by the devastation of the 1988 fires, which were preceeded by acute drought and record setting dry lightening. I began to wonder what solar activity occured leading up the 1988 fire storms. Solar cycle 22 started just a couple of years before that summer of drought and dry lightening. Check this out. Relative to other cycles, that solar cycle had 1) a very fast rise time – 2.8 years, 2) a very short cycle length – 9.7 years, 3) a high minimum sun spot number – 12.3, and 4) a high maximum sun spot number – 158.5

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“Cycle 22 certainly provided us with many highlights. Early in the cycle the smoothed sunspot number (determined by the number of sunspots visible on the sun and used as the traditional measure of the cycle) climbed rapidly; in fact more rapidly than for any previously recorded cycle. This caused many to predict that it would eclipse Cycle 19 (peak sunspot number of 201) as the highest cycle on record. This was not to be as the sunspot number ceased climbing in early 1989 and reached a maximum in July of that year. Whilst not of record amplitude, Cycle 22 still rated as 4th of the recorded cycles and continued the run of recent large solar cycles (Cycles 18, 19 and 21 were all exceptional!). A very notable feature of Cycle 22 was that it had the shortest rise from minimum to maximum of any recorded cycle.”
Material Prepared by Richard Thompson. © Copyright IPS – Radio and Space Services.

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]]> By: John Harvey http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2008/06/global-warming-new-sunspot-cycle-may-mean-the-iceman-cometh/comment-page-1/#comment-1215 John Harvey Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:09:25 +0000 http://deathby1000papercuts.com/?p=1120#comment-1215 For access to real-time pix of solar flares and sunspots, see: http://www.solarcycle24.com/ For access to real-time pix of solar flares and sunspots, see:

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