Comments on: Upcoming TV special on the Sun – worth watching

By: Stan Needham

Stan Needham — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:17:29 +0000

Sorry, Matt. If I’d seen the program I probably would have picked up on your intent.

By: MattN

MattN — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:08:21 +0000

Yep, tongue in cheek….

By: papertiger

papertiger — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:58:26 +0000

Sounded to me like Mattn had his tongue in cheek for that comment.
I found an astronomer who claims that the sun hasn’t shown spots since Aug. 9th.
http://blog.iomastronomy.org/blog/_archives/2007/8/15/3160583.html#attachments

His site consists of interesting astro photos he has taken with his own equipment, mostly pix of sunspots. See the thing is sunspots are one of the easiest targets for an amateur. This guy is fastidious.(I know the type) If there were sunspots available he would have imaged them. This lends credence to his claim. I beleive him.
No spots since Aug 9th means 81 days.

By: Stan Needham

Stan Needham — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:27:00 +0000

and of course made refderence (sic) to the undisputable warming man has caused.

Matt, how much of the warming experienced over the last century or so has been undisputably caused by man? And since it is “indisputable”, I assume you have “indisputable proof” that you would be willing to share with the rest of us.

By: MattN

MattN — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:19:29 +0000

And, boy howdy, did they drag out some U-G-L-Y people to interview for that special. Wowzers….

By: MattN

MattN — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:10:15 +0000

That consensus “view” was changed after #24 failed to start early 2007. The problem is, we haven’t see the signs of #23 coming to a final conclusion (reverse magnetic sunspots). And when those happen, #24 is still months away from starting.

The NGC special was OK, could have done a better job on a few things, and of course made refderence to the undisputable warming man has caused.

By: davidcobb

davidcobb — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:31:13 +0000

pretty interesting show, except “global warming is an undisputed fact” and “man is causing the recent rise in temperature” and “the sun is the primary driver for climate”. oops, my head just exploded.

By: PeterV

PeterV — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:16:05 +0000

The consensus view has the new Cycle 24 starting in March of 2008. See http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/SC24/index.html It is quiet right now. This is a “long” solar minimum. We may have a low solar maximum in cycle 24. But it is not late….

By: MattN

MattN — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:35:20 +0000

22 days without a sunspot. No sign of #24 starting anytime soon. Very, very quiet….

By: Evan Jones

Evan Jones — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:48:56 +0000

Cycle 24 where aaaaare you?

By: Nicholas J Harding

Nicholas J Harding — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:04:59 +0000

This will be interesting; National Geo generally drinks the Kool-aid on the CO2 theroy of AGW.

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TV » Upcoming TV special on the Sun - worth watching — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:35:02 +0000

[...] ds10@users.sourceforge.net (ds10) wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe National Geographic Channel has a TV special on the sun, sunspots, climate, etc. They interviewed several people involved in that debate. It includes interviews with Judith Lean, Leif Svalgaard, and others. … [...]