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Actually it is well documented that the Sun's activity dictates our climate.MKIII N00b said:yeah i think it is the end of the world, think about it...ever heard of the green house affect? wel anyways the heat gets trapped because of the gasses and shit thats produced it goes up to the atmosphere and keeps in the heat, and the heat messes with the weather...yeah sucks huh? hopefully i can take my supra to the moon, or mars!
And the people that tell you that are not scientists either.MKIII N00b said:i know, but there are more and more gases being produced...and its getting stuck in the atmosphere so that means alot of heat is getting trapped, im no scientist im just saying from what ive heard.
For the rest of the story, look it up yourselves.menacing peak in cyclical solar activity officially has passed, a NASA scientist says, but its impact on Earth's weather is far from over. In fact, the outlook is sunny in many ways.
The flurry of Sun flares and expulsions seen over the past two years has begun to ebb, and activity will continue to decline for the next five years or so. Now it has set into motion a series of salutary changes to the planet's long-term climate and perhaps even daily weather.
The outcomes are predicted to include fewer clouds over the United States in coming years and a southward shift in storm tracks. Other effects should include a deflation of the planet's atmosphere, which will make it easier for mission managers to keep the International Space Station in its proper orbit.
And the beleaguered ozone layer, infamous for growing that gaping hole each year, is about to get a slight breather thanks to less abuse from solar activity.
Changes in the Sun's output appear to be related to temperatures on Earth.
Peaks in the solar cycle create extra cloudiness across much of the United States.
The rhythm of the Sun
The Sun has rhythm. Beyond its propensity to show up in the East every 24 hours (a rhythm actually dictated by Earth's rotation) there is a deeply rooted cycle of activity within the Sun that increases and decreases every 11.3 years, on average.
This solar cycle, as it is called, is measured by the number of sunspots, tangles of magnetic energy that reflect the overall activity near the surface of the Sun. With more and stronger sunspots come increasingly furious coronal mass ejections -- bubbles of gas and charged particles that are hurled into space and sometimes threaten Earth satellites and power grids.
During the peak in activity, called the solar maximum or solar max, the Sun also releases energy through coronal holes, open magnetic fields that cause sharp increases in the amount of charged particles riding outward on the ever-present solar wind.
David Hathaway, a solar physicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, began predicting the recent peak in the Sun's activity back in the early 1990s. He had figured it would come in June or July of 2000. Only recently has he been able to look back at the data and figure out where the peak was.
"The maximum sunspot number occurred in July of 2000 and we expect that date to hold," Hathaway told SPACE.com. He said this peak was bigger than average but less dramatic than the previous two.
But as its temper settles, the Sun still has some punch in store.
"Solar flares and coronal mass ejections will decline in frequency with the sunspot number," Hathaway said. "However, geomagnetic storms will continue to increase in frequency due to the high speed solar wind streams from low latitude coronal holes that form late in the solar cycle."
The visible effect will at times be stunning. Earlier this year, a geomagnetic storm sparked aurora -- sheets and filaments of multicolored lights caused by the excitation of gas molecules high in the atmosphere -- that were seen as far south as Texas.
Space weather this weekend squares with the passage of the peak, Hathaway says. A powerful solar flare erupted Saturday at the Sun and sent a coronal mass ejection to Earth that triggered a strong radio blackout on the sunlit side of Earth.
Flares and coronal mass ejections like Saturday's will continue into the future but at a lower rate than a year ago during the solar maximum peak, Hathaway said. "The cycle doesn't show any evidence that we're going to peak again at a higher value than we did last year," he said. "It still looks to me like we passed the maximum."
I havent been there for about a year but it looked alot better last time I went.Joel W. said:Yellow: I have not been to L.A. for about 12 years. Is it better today?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4315968.stm#antarcticEverybody thinks that the Antarctic is shrinking due to climate change, but the reality is much more complex," says David Vaughan, a principal investigator at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK.
"Parts of it appear to be thickening as a result of snowfall increases. But the peninsula is thinning at an alarming rate due to warming.
"The West Antarctic sheet is also thinning, and we're not sure of the reason why.
silent_sniper said:im not even gonna bother telling u what the weather is outside in BC it will change befor u could finish the first word