Solar Cycle Will Be Weakest...Or Not?
It wasn't very long ago that we were being told to brace for, in 2012, the biggest solar maximum for some time. Now some scientists are predicting that it will be "the weakest since 1928".
The panel now expects the sun's activity will peak about a year late, in May 2013, when it will boast an average of 90 sunspots per day. That is below average for solar cycles, making the coming peak the weakest since 1928, when an average of 78 sunspots was seen daily.So there's nothing to worry about, except:
"The panel consensus is not my individual opinion," says panel member Mausumi Dikpati of the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado.Such disparate predictions are similar to the global warming debate. Perhaps they are connected after all?
Dikpati and her colleagues have developed a solar model that predicts a bumper crop of sunspots and a cycle that is 30% to 50% stronger than the previous cycle, Cycle 23.
Labels: solar cycle 24
posted by Rob at
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
4 Comments:
Group think such as GE and NBC are promoting for financial gain makes all climate change talk sickening.
It seems that our scientists do not have the slightest idea of what they are talking about...
Hmm I wonder if the central point of the late cycle peak will then fall around the time of my 13-Ahau date on 31-03-2013?
http://tiny.cc/2DvOZ
That would be interesting as some Maya elders are saying the energy of the new 5th sun fully enters on that date also.
Is there a correlation between number of sun spots and their size? Just because there are fewer predicted doesn't mean there won't be any big ones.
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