From Space.com
Astronomers will unveil a “major result” on Tuesday (June 14) regarding the sun’s 11-year sunspot cycle.
The announcement will be made at a solar physics conference in New Mexico, according to an alert released today (June 10) by the American Astronomical Society. The discussion will begin at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT).
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I’m not sure what this is, but it may be related to the previous announcement about the collaboration with the Met Office on Space Weather Forecasting for protecting the electric grid.
It is also possible that it is related to Livingston and Penn’s findings or related to the sunspot forecasts that have been constantly changing.
However, given the state of science promotion these days, I’m going with sensationalism, maybe something to justify the new US-UK joint venture.
We’ll see.
h/t to reader Scarlet Pumpernickel
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They have realised the Sun is actually bigger than the earth … It’s a ‘perspective’ anomaly…!!
‘Sarc off’
I reckon NASA is going to finally admit that the Sun does not have a molten core which of course will lead to the admission that the Earth doesn’t have a molten core. Leif is gonna love this one!
Either way, it will somehow be related to this discovery:
http://www.suite101.com/content/vast-solar-eruption-shocks-nasa-and-raises-doubts-on-sun-theory-a327330
It’s very likely a NEW Psyentific Discovery that the Sky is REALLY Falling and even though it is a Cover Story for a newly discovered plot by the Martians to invade and take over Planet Earth it will give President Obama the excuse he needs to get a Gulf of Temperature Resolution through Congress so that he can declare Martial Law and put everyone back to work in salt mines (Salt is the only thing that kills Martians). Go figure! Well, it had to happen one day, I guess it’s better now than later. Remember, if they say anything, you say “Yes Massah!” or “No Massah!” and don’t look them in the eyes, they don’t like it when you look ’em in the eyes.
“The Mayans were right folks –it’s all over next year.”
Pascvaks:
Sounds like we’d be better off with the Martians in charge. After all, they’d be introducing Martial law too, but at least we’d know where they were coming from.
I think they are going to tell us that it would be really really difficult for life on earth if we didn’t have a sun, AND more funding is needed to study this discovery!
@tallbloke Not sure what made me laugh more, Martial/n law or we’re not sure where their coming from. 😉
They couldn’t possibly be saying that Oliver Manuel is right about his iron sun theory?
/joke
The Movie Knowing is coming true!!! we are all gonna burn!! haha.
C’mon guys, enough sarc, you’re beginning to sound like demented warmists. Let Anthony post the announcement and then comment.
Pluto is a planet again?
Something about the coming deadly solar winds, I bet.
geo says:
June 14, 2011 at 7:45 am
“The Mayans were right folks –it’s all over next year.”
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The Mayans were right, but we blew the translation. The world will not end in 2012. However, new phenomena, unlike any previously witnessed by modern sentient Humans, will commence. Hold on tight people.
They will announce the return to old time sound science:
1. The sun orbits the earth.
2. The earth is flat.
3. Burning witches and heretics will solve global warming.
4. The tax collector will be at your door soon – have money available or else (see 3. above)
I think it may be more about a solar minimum and the possible effects re cooling. I think most of these astronomers DON’T concur with AGW from what I hear
In fact a look around blogosphere suggest this might be a furfy lets see….
tallbloke says:
June 14, 2011 at 4:57 am
Leif is at this conference. Which taking place in a town called Sunspot. You couldn’t make it up.
Maybe he can tell us something?
Although having a poster there [with Livingston and Penn] I’m actually not attending [just too many conferences], so don’t know. On the program for July 14 at the time of the ‘news’ unveiling the schedule lists ‘Wine and shopping Trips”.
Suranda says:
June 14, 2011 at 7:23 am
I reckon NASA is going to finally admit that the Sun does not have a molten core ….
This is it: http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=4eefp0kj
According to the wisdom collected in Wikipedia, Sunspot, NM, was named after the solar observatory. The highway is named after the hydrogen H-alpha emission. Causality, not correlation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspot,_New_Mexico
Major drop in solar activity? Was this their major announcement?
It is about L&P and more: http://www.space.com/11960-fading-sunspots-slower-solar-activity-solar-cycle.html
Looks like Space.com got an embargoed press release; they just published that the announcement is that the Sun is surprisingly quiet. Some think the polar magnetic field might not do what is expected, and nobody knows what that would cause. They’re worried that the Sun is going outside their models.
http://www.space.com/11960-fading-sunspots-slower-solar-activity-solar-cycle.html
REPLY: Way ahead of you, see main page – A
Decision was made to cancel the press conference. A public summary release will follow.
The press release has this lapse:
“If the rush to the poles fails to complete, this creates a tremendous dilemma for the theorists, as it would mean that Cycle 23’s magnetic field will not completely disappear from the polar regions”
Except that the magnetic field at the North Pole has already disappeared: http://www.leif.org/research/WSO-Polar-Fields-since-2003.png [the blue curve]
Sun’s Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity
http://www.space.com/11960-fading-sunspots-slower-solar-activity-solar-cycle.html
Hmm, thanks to WUWT, I’ve known that the sun was headed for a low max for quite some time now… nice to see it confirmed and at least partially explained. Still, it’s “unexpected”!