The sunspot cycle is behaving a little like the stock market. Just when you think it has hit bottom, it goes even lower.
2008 was a bear. There were no sunspots observed on 266 of the year’s 366 days (73%). To find a year with more blank suns, you have to go all the way back to 1913, which had 311 spotless days: plot. Prompted by these numbers, some observers suggested that the solar cycle had hit bottom in 2008.Maybe not. Sunspot counts for 2009 have dropped even lower. As of March 31st, there were no sunspots on 78 of the year’s 90 days (87%).
It adds up to one inescapable conclusion: “We’re experiencing a very deep solar minimum,” says solar physicist Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center.
“This is the quietest sun we’ve seen in almost a century,” agrees sunspot expert David Hathaway of the Marshall Space Flight Center.
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April 2nd, 2009 at 9:58 am
Hence, the reason Mr. Groundhog hasn’t seen his shadow for 2 years straight.
April 2nd, 2009 at 9:58 am
if this means there will be less solar activity in 2009, doesn’t this mean our planet is going to cool down?
EnglishPatriot Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:08 am
Aye, it does.
mr activist Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:24 am
well hopefully more people are going to wake up then..
unless al gore explains it with another pseudoscientific theory saying that its our fault and we should all be taxed for it.
TanookiSuit Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:12 am
Well… you see emissions from military rockets have drifted through space and finally reached the sun, blocking view of these sunspots, that’s why we can’t see them. The world is gonna catch fire if we don’t herp derp derp derpderpyderpy derp…
Who Me? Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:11 pm
LMAO I love that episode…
I hate Al Gore
and people used to say Quayle was an idiot
Black Sheep Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:25 pm
No it means we’re experiencing a solar low and that temperatures MAY cool.
Chris uk Reply:
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:08 am
Temperatures WILL cool
April 2nd, 2009 at 9:59 am
Either i can choose to deal with the coming crisis in america or i can say s.crew it and wait till 2012 for it to be over. this sucks why couldnt have i been born in the 1800’s. O well get ready is all i can do
EnglishPatriot Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:32 am
What makes you think this 2012 stuff isn’t just nonsense?
Seriously, every year we have lunatics claiming the end of the world.
TH in MI Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:14 pm
At least if it all ends in 2012, I won’t have to see Obama’s next 4 years.
TheGhost Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:07 pm
look man the y2k thing was stupid.. i didnt believe in that shit.. but the 2012 jazz is pretty compelling.. i wouldnt just say its all bullshit before really researching it you know
Love the father first Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:30 pm
I can tell you all right down to the hour when this world age will end? When satan defacto kills the two witness sent by God to witness for God. they will lay Dead in the streets of Jerusalum for three days and within the next hour Christ himself will come back and we will start the new age. How will you know this happened ? you will be transformed into a spirtual body.
How can you save yourself from satan and not be decieved by him? Know that he comes first Pretending to be Christ. ( you will still have a Flesh Body untill the true Christ comes back)
When does this happen? Chirst said “know the parable of the fig tree” When Israel becomes a nation again, inhabited by the good and the BAD figs. All of these events will happen before this generation dies. so you do the math 1948? with-in a 100 years after. You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free
uchikoma Reply:
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:26 am
The smell of zionism……………….. Derby der!
Love the farther first Reply:
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:30 am
Zionism? read the letter our father gave us(the Bible) he told us all things. those who fail to read the book with understanding will be decieved by satan for lack of knowaledge?
You can get prepared by buying food and guns, and so on, but without prepareing with the word and knowalege he gave us, you will fail! Google ” shepherds Chapel” find out what one of the 350 stations they are on and watch Pastor Murray. PS> he won’t ask you for money like all the other preacher’s on TV?
Jesus Christ Reply:
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:10 am
jesus christ here we go with the second coming of jesus. tell him he can lick my nuts if u see him.k thx
Black Sheep Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:28 pm
You mean during the civil war? That was a good ol bloodbath in our own country not these lame ass kill people in other countries times we’re in now.
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:01 am
There’s all these relations to the sun,all of a sudden.Then talking about solar flares in 2012,it is undoubtedly worth looking into.Obviously there’s something going on.”The quiet before the storm”
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:04 am
LOLOLOLOLOLOLZZZZ sAtAn! i mEaN tNaSa, iS sO cArEfUl nOt tO mEnTiOn a cOoReLlaTiOn wItH sUnSpOt aCtIvItY aNd pLaNeT tEmPeRaTuReS sYsTeM wIdE~
wHaT eLsE hApPeNnEd iN 1913? hMhMhMhM i kNoW! dO yOu?
iT’s aLl a jOkE, aNd i’M tHe jEsTeR~ ROFLMAO
Smoke and Mirrors Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:52 am
Here are just a few events that took place in 1913.
http://www.gold-eagle.com/edit.....22602.html
http://www.scragged.com/articl.....ction.aspx
http://escapethecollapse.com/2.....1913-2008/
http://www.scientificblogging......nimum_1913
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1913MNRAS..74..116P
http://circanceast.beaufortccc.....3/1913.htm
http://www.nowpublic.com/weath.....s-disaster
It’s people like you that make me sick of people like you!!!
You are a joke, not a jester.
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:10 am
They better hurry up and advance their man-made global warming and carbon tax scams before everyone realizes it was all a hoax.
roaddog Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:03 pm
or freezes to death.
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:15 am
There was a huge spike in 2000-2001. Why didn’t the worlds electronics go down then? It’s good to EMP proof your communication electronics spares in case they hit us with an emp and blame it on “solar activity”
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:25 am
hmmm,,,
the high is at/near Dec 21st 2012…
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:29 am
Think what you want, something is going to take place!
http://www.viewzone.com/endtime.html
April 2nd, 2009 at 12:49 pm
I hope Al Gore gets to work on this. Where can I buy solar off-sets?
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:03 pm
the article failed to mention that 2008 was one of the warmest years on record.
Alaskan Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Funny, I heard it was the coolest year of the decade. Warmest on record eh? I’m positive that there were warmer years out there. Like when there were people dying in Europe from heat stroke.
wikity Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Not true. Scientists have realized that temperature averages have been extremely skewed recently because many of the temperatures used to average global temperatures are taken from urban areas which are much warmer than the surrounding rural areas. This is due to the fact that urban areas absorb much more heat with asphalt, dark roofs/buildings etc… When we only take rural temps into account the average temperature (the REAL temperature) is much lower.
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Is a deep freeze is a coming? Al Bore and his evil friends will have a solution for that as well.
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:02 pm
The climate fearmongers knew about this cycle of solar activity and will use it as “proof” of anthropogenic global warming. Since most of us citizens don’t bother to look at real data, we’ll swallow it and put our own handcuffs on while the enviro-cops punish us for not having any money to pay the carbon tax.
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Just sit and fry?Just sit and freeze?What will happen will happen,with or without the NWO.So down will the NWO .that is the goal now and till 2012 or until it get done!
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:59 pm
I love it how NASA comes out with an article on the same day an article surfaces that contradicts their own research.
http://www.examiner.com/x-2912.....s-collapse
Black Sheep Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Actually I’ve been following spaceweather for a while now and have seen a report which I think came from NASA about the vulnerability of our power grid and communications systems to huge solar flares. That article came out maybe 2 months ago, I’m sorry I don’t have a link.
April 2nd, 2009 at 4:55 pm
am not a Dr. am not a Nasa excpert. Just an older country guy from NC. I been listening to Alex Jones for many years, sometimes constantly and sometimes seldom, if never. The shootdown of that TWA plane over Long Island a long time ago was the thing that got me thinking. I found infowars right after that happened.
The Dark Secrets of Bohemian Grove was what got me to REALLY thinking.
Now I have to watch a President of our country go by the queens rules to meet her. I see our TV news groveling like that was a reward.
I see our elected officials barking like seals at feeding time to corporate and elitest for money so they can be re elected the next term.
I do see very many people here beating chests to outdo each other in comments.
Something else I see every morning as I am also an avid listener to Washington Journal on CSPAN…..is the fact that people are waking up. I heard the truth there this morning…and every morning for the last while. I even hear Alex Jon’es websites mentioned there many times. Almost daily now.
Call into other talk radio shows that are covering the news. Be stealthy when being screened as many times if you are not you will not get on air. As Alex has said it is one more target of opportunity in the infowar.
Just think if all that post here called into a morning radio talk show and even one tenth was able to get on the air? Just think.
Let’s be the tiny snowball at the top of the hill that becomes the avalanche
freedomworks Reply:
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:36 am
to Dan;
You make good suggestions about folks calling in to local showes. I hope you will remind us of this again in the future. We can stop the NWO and lock up these criminals.
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:18 pm
This global warming deal is due to the devastation of our woodlands..
1. The amount of carbon dioxide will increase
- the tree absorbs carbon dioxide during photosynthesis and converts them into oxygen, therefore this will help the living things like us(man) and animals to get more oxygen.
2. The Earth will be hotter.
- during the hot weather, transpiration on the surface of the leaves will occur. during transpiration, water in the form of vapour is given out and this will eventually increase the humidity of the air and tend to be cooler.
April 2nd, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Don’t get your hopes up that global cooling is soon ahead, and will soon put an end to the carbon-dioxide fueled greenhouse effect myth. Let’s not forget that they (and by they, I mean the scum of the Earth) have got weather modification technology, and will continue to use heat-trapping chemtrail blankets it to warm the climate artificially, while they continue to hype the carbon tax as a solution. I wish I were wrong, but I’m not.
April 2nd, 2009 at 6:48 pm
first of all the date december 21 2012 that we know of on our calendar system is not the real date of december 21 2012…the calendar systems of the world have been altered many many times since the Mayan set the date for 2012.
i personally believe that whatever is going to happen that is hyped by this date will actually occur more toward 2016-2020
the solar maximum that reaches it peak in 2012 (scientist are saying that it could be the worse one seen since the 1800’s) could fry the electrical grid and satellites sending us back more than 100 years tech wise.
on a darker note it is quite possible for a big enough flare to scorch our ozone,weaken the magnetic field and cause a pole shift…or it could end like the end of the movie Knowing. (Crap movie btw, but had one of the best ending to a movie i ever saw…maybe we are in store for the same)
April 2nd, 2009 at 7:03 pm
I worry less about a date set by an ancient civilization than what is very obvious today.
We have a bunch of people that think they Deserve to rule the rest of us. They have taken over the mass information that so many live their lives from. They have taken over the government that is supposed to represent US. They have their minions on high that are slick trying to convince us they care.
If all this 2012 stuff is true then so be it. It will come from the true Master of the Universe.
As far as those on earth thinking they are the masters of us all?
Reminds me a lot of why we fought to have a country
April 2nd, 2009 at 7:18 pm
It’s pretty simple. ‘Well, climate change may not entirely be caused by man, but this temporary cooling is just an anomaly, because we BELIEVE blah blah blah.’ The other great thing going for all of these nincompoops is that they always get to play catch up, and still act superior. It doesn’t matter what they say, as long as they say it over and over again, stupid people will believe them. Here’s a couple of links, one is about the press’ vacillating back and forth about ice age/fiery death catastrophe scares, many times in the last 100 years.
The other is about how “global warming” actually CAUSES global cooling- duh.
http://www.livescience.com/env....._rise.html
Can anyone say cyclical??
April 2nd, 2009 at 7:18 pm
http://www.businessandmedia.or.....andice.asp
This one shows the BS news stories cool/hot/cool/hot
April 2nd, 2009 at 7:51 pm
We already have the Maunder Minimum and the Dalton Minimum. I would suggest we call this one “The Gore Minimum”
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:35 pm
1913 was when the Fed was created.
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:52 am
Wierd… Spaceweather.com….. where all they do is look at the sun, must have them seeing spots! Spaceweather says were at 26 days since the last sunspot… but this article on infowars is from NASA…. I totally believe NASA.
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:24 pm
I totally believe, I totally believe,I totally believe,I totally believe,I totally believe,I totally believe
April 7th, 2009 at 10:03 am
1913 was when satan erected his federal reserve and 2012 means nothing cos in 2013 it would be
a whole century that satan has won.
I think its when the NWO will finally reveal their leader figure who will claim to be god and rule over mankind
April 8th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
After reading through this article, I just feel that I really need more information on the topic. Can you share some resources please?
April 15th, 2009 at 6:53 am
My fellow on Orkut shared this link with me and I’m not dissapointed that I came to your blog.
April 16th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Hey. I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
I am from Benin and now study English, please tell me right I wrote the following sentence: “Cheapest air search, compare save up to on cheap airline tickets.”
With respect
, Monica.