| We have all been hearing about the gloom doom of | | | | the start of the next solar cycle. The wait is over. A |
| Global Warming. Although I am definitely not a | | | | magnetically reversed, high-latitude sunspot emerged |
| believer nor is anyone in our Think Tank after | | | | today. This marks the beginning of Solar Cycle 24 |
| reviewing all the data, I still would like to see humans | | | | and the first step toward a new solar maximum. |
| cut their pollution a bit, as it is just wasteful, | | | | Intense solar activity won't begin right away. Solar |
| inconsiderate and not very efficient to pollute when | | | | cycles usually take a few years to build from solar |
| you clearly do not have to. | | | | minimum (where we are now) to Solar Max |
| About now 85% of the population will tell me that I | | | | (expected in 2011 or 2012). It's a slow journey, but |
| do not know what I am talking about and that Global | | | | we're on our way!" |
| Warming is real and Al Gore proved it. Well, would | | | | What does this all mean to you and I and our |
| you like a bit of proof to consider? Have you ever | | | | families, water supplies, drought challenges and harsh |
| heard of space weather or solar flares? Here is a | | | | weather? It means things in the next six years will |
| short excerpt of what is to come, but it has nothing | | | | get worse, not better, but it also means it has very |
| to do with carbon emissions: | | | | little to do with mankind's CO2 emissions. It has much |
| Space Weather News for Jan. 4, 2008 | | | | more to do about the naturally occurring solar cycles |
| "Solar physicists have been waiting for the | | | | and solar flares. Something to contemplate in 2008. |
| appearance of a reversed-polarity sunspot to signal | | | | |