{"id":244,"date":"2008-09-29T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2008\/10\/sunspots-what-sunspots.html"},"modified":"2008-10-29T03:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T03:52:00","slug":"sunspots-what-sunspots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2008\/09\/sunspots-what-sunspots-244.html","title":{"rendered":"Sunspots. What Sunspots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/5\/5c\/Carbon14_with_activity_labels.svg\/300px-Carbon14_with_activity_labels.svg.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/5\/5c\/Carbon14_with_activity_labels.svg\/300px-Carbon14_with_activity_labels.svg.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time since 1913 we have had a month without a single sunspot. The 7 months prior to August averaged a very low 3 sunspots. This is the most likely cause for global temperatures dropping this year. Is it something we should be concerned about?<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, we could be heading into a &#8220;mini-Ice Age&#8221; that coincided with the Maunder Minimum of 1645 to 1715. This would mean colder weather and nothing an extra layer of clothing and a million glasshouses won&#8217;t fix.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, it could just be &#8220;one of those things&#8221; and come right soon.<\/p>\n<p>Or, there is grave concern that the Sun is building up to an almighty Coronal Mass Ejection or similar, in 2012, that could wipe out humankind.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobkingsley.co.uk\/blog\/?p=188\">Bob Kingsley&#8217;s site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since 1913 we have had a month without a single sunspot. The 7 months prior to August averaged a very low 3 sunspots. This is the most likely cause for global temperatures dropping this year. Is it something we should be concerned about?<br \/>\nOn the one hand, we could be heading into a &#8220;mini-Ice Age&#8221; that coincided with the Maunder Minimum of 1645 to 1715. This would mean colder weather and nothing an extra layer of clothing and a million glasshouses won&#8217;t fix.<br \/>\nOn the other hand, it could just be &#8220;one of those things&#8221; and come right soon.<br \/>\nOr, there is grave concern that the Sun is building up to an almighty Coronal Mass Ejection or similar, in 2012, that could wipe out humankind.<br \/>\nRead more at Bob Kingsley&#8217;s site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunspots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->