The Sunspot Enigma: The Sun is "Dead", What Does it Mean for Earth?

Re:The Sunspot Enigma: The Sun is "Dead", What Does it Mean ... by grimoire on Friday August 15, 2008 @04:01PM (#277289)

There is some serious smack-down in that NASA article.

"In the early 20th century there were periods of quiet lasting almost twice as long as the current spell."

"In summary, "the current minimum is not abnormally low or long.""

"Hathaway anticipates more spotless days, maybe even hundreds, followed by a return to Solar Max conditions in the years around 2012."

Along with some interesting graphs, it looks like everything is business as usual for the sun.

A google search on the author, Rebecca Sato, shows that she typically writes lots of "what if" and other fluff pieces.

Sounds like fear mongering to me.

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Re:The Sunspot Enigma: The Sun is "Dead", What Does it Mean ... by kajecounterhack on Saturday August 16, 2008 @12:17AM (#277579)

Whatever it is, what does it matter if we can't predict what's going to happen? As far as we know, the world's getting warmer and its time to start buying priuses wherever we can afford them ;)

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Re:The Sunspot Enigma: The Sun is "Dead", What Does it Mean ... by kingkongrevenge on Saturday August 16, 2008 @03:53PM (#277921)

> As far as we know, the world's getting warmer

Temperature peaked in 1998.

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Re:The Sunspot Enigma: The Sun is "Dead", What Does it Mean ... by ojbyrne on Saturday August 16, 2008 @11:25PM (#278156)

It would be nice to have a reference for that.

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Re:The Sunspot Enigma: The Sun is "Dead", What Does it Mean ... by eru on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @02:23AM (#280127)

Actually it peaks every year - in summer.

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