Solar activity runs in 11-year cycles. Some are as short (9 years) or long (14). In the 17th century, a 70-year period minimal sunspot activity (Maunder Minimum) has become known as the Little Ice Age, which extended from the 16th century to the 19th century.
What happened during the ‘little ice age’? Valley Forge, Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, and people traveled from Cape Cod to Martha’s Vineyard across the ocean on horse drawn sleighs.
Global warming seemingly stopped in 1998. Solar activity is minimal and the lowest of the last century.
“NOAA reports that in 2008 and 2009, the sun set Space Age records for low sunspot counts, weak solar wind and low solar radiance. The sun has gone more than two years without a significant solar flare.
"The sun is behaving in an unexpected and very interesting way," says Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's lead representative on the panel. "In our professional careers, we've never seen anything
"Even a below-average cycle is capable of producing severe space weather," says Biesecker. "The great geomagnetic storm of 1859, for instance, occurred during a solar cycle of about the same size we're predicting for 2013."1
“Just before dawn in 1859, skies all over planet Earth erupted in red, green, and purple auroras so brilliant that newspapers could be read as easily as in daylight. Indeed, stunning auroras pulsated even at near tropical latitudes over Cuba, the Bahamas, Jamaica, El Salvador, and Hawaii.
“Even more disconcerting, telegraph systems worldwide went haywire. Spark discharges shocked telegraph operators and set the telegraph paper on fire. Even when telegraphers disconnected the batteries powering the lines, aurora-induced electric currents in the wires still allowed messages to be transmitted.2
“A recent report by by the National Academy of Sciences found that if such a storm occurred today, it could cause up to $2 trillion in damages to society's high-tech infrastructure.
“The National Research Council has estimated that such a storm would play havoc with our power grid, resulting in "large-scale blackouts affecting more than 130 million people (in the U.S.) and (exposing) more than 350 major transformers to the risk of permanent damage."1
The next peak is predicted by NASA in 2012 or 2013.
The end of the world is predicted by the Mayan calendar on Dec. 12, 2012.
Somehow, I don’t think that global warming is what we should be worried about. If you look behind a trend to find the truth, it’s about power. Money goes with power so it looks like money (it leaves a trail), but look who, what, where the power lies.
The people who insist that we take action now live in big homes, travel by private jet, make money using hedge funds (almost like insider trading), and build ego’s in front of adoring crowds. False messiahs. Accept nothing without investigation, and reading both sides of the story. Life is not about cheering for the right team. It’s about truth.
And by the way, if you’ll be around in 2013, stock up on food, cash, and oh yeah, sunscreen (http://www.consumersearch.com/sunscreen).
Buddha always emphasized the rational pursuit of truth. "He instructed his disciples to critically judge his words before accepting them. He always advocated reason over blind faith.
"Buddha was speaking about reality," says Dalai Lama
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Buddha
References
2. NASA 1859
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I love magnetism!
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