Daily Archives: November 4, 2008

Mount Shasta’s glaciers- proxy for what?

The photo below I took this weekend on my way back from a station survey in the remote northestern corner of California. It shows Mount Shasta getting it’s first significant snow of this precipitation season here in California. Our local … Continue reading

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A look at the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Sunspots

This paper appeared in the journal Technological Forecasting & Social Change: Sunspots, GDP and the stock market (View paper PDF) by: Theodore Modis Abstract A correlation has been observed between the US GDP and the number of sunspots as well … Continue reading

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