The Sun is Going to Sleep

[mustardman]

Maunder Minimum is another great move by the pr firms hired to discredit science.
Misinformation is the name of their game

[Ache4Acres]

In my opinion any major changes with the sun are going to take hundreds, thousands of years to play out. What many people fail to put into relation is span of a human life time compared to the lifetime of a solar system. We are here on earth just for a blink of an eye. Ice ages that have occurred don't happen overnight but evolve over periods of millions of years! Try to put a million years in relation to the 80 years I may live on this planet.

So come on out of your bunkers and make some hay while the sun is shining!

[Ache4Acres]

I did meet some people last night and when I asked one couple what they do for a living...he "studies the social impact of climate change on the Inuit living in Northern Canada" and she "studies the impact of climate change on the forest ecology"

Thank god I pay my taxes...good grief

[cottonpicken]

So you know the suns polarity just flipped and finding mammoths flash froze with green plants in their stomachs we can study,measuring a few points of co2 in a million equals changing everthing we do as a species at god knows what cost,magnetic shield weekening,cloud decks and formations i have never seen before..... There are more things on heaven and earth than you and I will ever know-can't remember whose quote that was

It's complicated

[Ache4Acres]

Couldn't agree more cotton. It is very complicated, and frankly I don't believe anyone can predict much decades ahead. They can't tell me if it is going to rain this afternoon

[stonepicker]

Mustard, i might be suspicious of tim ball if he lived like al gore or david suzuki, tim lives a modest lifestyle, not sure about the big corp. money you say he's getting. Did you know that the david suzuki foundation receives money from big oil? No credibility there either then, he's been bought off. Re-read some of tim's articles, they make far more sense than the outrageous claims of your so-called global warming scientists. We've had dinasoars and ice ages in this country and everything in-between! Doesn't long term weather patterns make more sense than man-made climate change?

[biglentil]

Opinions are like assholes everyone's got one I prefer observational data. The number of visible sunspots are a tiny fraction of what has typically been observed over the past century. That's a fact.

[Ache4Acres]

Maybe with the lack of sun spots it means the sun is stabilizing and will remain free of solar flares for the next 1,000 years!

[biglentil]

The relevance of this post is not solar flares but the link between the solar weather and worldwide drought conditions. Which has the potential to drive up grain prices and change farming practices.

[biglentil]

The relevance of this post is not solar flares but the link between the solar weather and worldwide drought conditions. Which has the potential to drive up grain prices and change farming practices.

[mustardman]

Not so much as Change farming practice as Change where farming is practised.
Try moving north a hundred miles

[biglentil]

Yes might shrink productive area. Could send guys on marginal, low rainfall, or short season areas packing. Change in farm practices may include a switch to more drought tolerant varieties, that are shorter season and require less heat units. Fertilizer rates would drop as well as fungicide. We've had some oddly cool nights this July I really hope this crop finishes in time.