Re: NEXT SOLAR STORM CYCLE WILL START LATE

Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

It's part of the global warming debate. If the Sun spot cycles keep
becoming shorter and the number of sunspots keeps increasing, it
explains why the Earth is getting warmer. The Sun puts out more heat,
the Earth gets warmer.

Theres hardly any sunspot at all right now, so it doesn't really explain why on average April has been 5 Celsius (!!!) warmer in the Netherlands since recording began. Also the driest April recorded ever. So I'm puzzled about the higher number of sunspots causing higher temperatures on earth, but maybe I'm missing something?

OTOH, I made these comments not to start another climate debate, they were 100% genuinely shortwave related.

Declaring that the Sun is not producing more output make us the sole
culprit therefore in order to fit in the current political climate,
you have to predit the cycle will be longer and there will be less
Sun spots.

At minimums the sun is outputting the least amount of matter as opposed to the maximums?

And I dont understand those people talking like this, forget the climate. How about pollution and the high number of deaths caused by smog, just to name two other very good reasons to lower oil consumption.

Channel 4 in the U.K. did a very good documentry on this subject. If
you STFW you can find it and it is well worth watching. Personally
I would not give a lot of credence to their conclusions, but
it provides a different side to the story.

STFW?

From a shortwave listening point of view, this is a good time for Medium
Wave and low band shortwave DXing. With the large scale deployment of
unsheilded flourescent lights, the U.S. love affair with BPL, and so on,
this may be our last chance to do it.

My main interest is in the 60mtr bands, but these days its terrible, the same ~10 stations over and over, and thats with far better radio and antenne as back then more up in the cycle where I have a ton of tropical QSL cards collected with the aid of my old Philips D2999 and a Sony AN-1 (thats right, the one everyone says sucks mega...) active antenna...

Irony that some people expect all tropical shortwave stations to have ended operation by 2010, practically at the next solar maximum...

There will always be number stations to switch interest too ;)

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JeroenK
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Relevant Pages

  • Re: Sunspots II.
    ... In Sunspots I, below, a few minor corrections ... number of sunspots modulates the solar luminosity by fractions of a ... Since sunspots follow an eleven year cycle and the Sun orbits through ... Earth will be impacted more often simply because an incoming body ...
    (sci.physics)
  • Sunspots II.
    ... In Sunspots I, below, a few minor corrections ... I'll try to connect sunspots to the Sun passing through ... Sun Area =10^4 Earth Area ... Sun Strikes = 3*10^9 Earth Strikes. ...
    (sci.physics)
  • Re: Sunspots II.
    ... In Sunspots I, below, a few minor corrections ... I'll try to connect sunspots to the Sun passing through ... Sun Area =10^4 Earth Area ... Sun Strikes = 3*10^9 Earth Strikes. ...
    (sci.physics)
  • Re: NEXT SOLAR STORM CYCLE WILL START LATE
    ... becoming shorter and the number of sunspots keeps increasing, ... explains why the Earth is getting warmer. ... Some areas are cooler and some hotter. ...
    (rec.radio.shortwave)
  • Re: NEXT SOLAR STORM CYCLE WILL START LATE
    ... becoming shorter and the number of sunspots keeps increasing, ... explains why the Earth is getting warmer. ... connector junctions for HF. ...
    (rec.radio.shortwave)