Comments for Solar Science http://solarscience.auditblogs.com A blog of solar physics Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:44:55 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on David Hathaway: Mea Culpa by Dennis Hand http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/2009/10/31/david-hathaway-mea-culpa/comment-page-1/#comment-755 Dennis Hand Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:44:55 +0000 http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/2009/10/31/david-hathaway-mea-culpa/#comment-755 This is the way science should be. We all make assumptions based on the available data at the time. Good science is when researches are willing to admit their error and move forward with the current best available data, even when it conflicts with their previous statements. Some at CRU and NASA can't seem to do that. This is the way science should be. We all make assumptions based on the available data at the time. Good science is when researches are willing to admit their error and move forward with the current best available data, even when it conflicts with their previous statements.

Some at CRU and NASA can’t seem to do that.

]]> Comment on Ken Tapping: Still no sign of the next cycle by Sean Houlihane http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/2009/07/10/ken-tapping-still-no-sign-of-the-next-cycle/comment-page-1/#comment-745 Sean Houlihane Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:15:56 +0000 http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/?p=154#comment-745 I updated my graph for the holidays. Seems like the trend is much slower than the start of 23 (not counting December). Vs. my guess above, the actuals were 70.4 (70.6), 69.0 (71.3), 71.2 (72.0), 71.8, 72.0 http://www.houlihane.co.uk/blog/2009/12/18/solar-flux-graph-update/ I updated my graph for the holidays. Seems like the trend is much slower than the start of 23 (not counting December).
Vs. my guess above, the actuals were 70.4 (70.6), 69.0 (71.3), 71.2 (72.0), 71.8, 72.0
http://www.houlihane.co.uk/blog/2009/12/18/solar-flux-graph-update/

]]> Comment on About by Kah Wai http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/about-2/comment-page-1/#comment-725 Kah Wai Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:42:03 +0000 http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/about-2/#comment-725 Hello John, We are a team of solar enthusiast who are planning to publish a magazine devoted to solar astronomy. We are now in the stage of planning, as well as developing the website (http://www.linkahwai.webs.com/) and establishing the editorial team. I read your blog and I am really impressed with your passion in solar science. We would like to invite you to be one of our team. If you agree, we would like to have you as a contributing editor for our magazine. At this moment, we cannot gurantee any reward, but I believe our our contribution to solar astronomy will be appreciated, and popularize solar astronomy among the amateur astronomer as well as to public. I am very looking forward for your reply for your decision, and further discussion. Your comments and suggestions are very welcome. Thank you! Kah Wai Hello John,
We are a team of solar enthusiast who are planning to publish a magazine devoted to solar astronomy. We are now in the stage of planning, as well as developing the website (http://www.linkahwai.webs.com/) and establishing the editorial team.
I read your blog and I am really impressed with your passion in solar science. We would like to invite you to be one of our team. If you agree, we would like to have you as a contributing editor for our magazine.
At this moment, we cannot gurantee any reward, but I believe our our contribution to solar astronomy will be appreciated, and popularize solar astronomy among the amateur astronomer as well as to public.
I am very looking forward for your reply for your decision, and further discussion. Your comments and suggestions are very welcome. Thank you!
Kah Wai

]]> Comment on Is the Earth’s magnetic field a cosmic ray funnel? by Dennis Brooks http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/2009/07/25/is-the-earths-magnetic-field-a-cosmic-ray-funnel/comment-page-1/#comment-724 Dennis Brooks Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:39:01 +0000 http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/?p=178#comment-724 Hello Solar Science, I am sending a news release regarding Earth's magnetic field that you can use on your blog. Please consider using it. You can find images on my website. Dennis CRAM SCHOOL FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dennis Brooks Phone: 1-808-566-0654 Email: dennisbroo@gmail.com Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Produced By An External Dynamo System, Not An Internal Dynamo. Researcher finds that Earth’s magnetic field is not produced by an internal dynamo. Nor is it produced by ocean current. The dynamo is outside the Planet! New findings by independent researcher, Dennis Brooks, show that Earth’s magnetic field and the planet itself are components of a complex dynamo system, which surrounds the planet. The planet and its magnetic field are part of the dynamo. According to this new theory, no internal dynamo or ocean current helps in producing or maintaining the magnetic field because other planets with magnetic fields do not have ocean currents or iron cores. Image by NASA Each planet does not have a unique way of producing its magnetic field. The magnetic field of each planet is produced by a planetary dynamo system and its ring current. For many years researchers thought that a similar dynamo system was within the planet and that this internal dynamo generated the magnetic field. However, we know now that it is too hot inside the planet to produce and maintain a magnetic field there. The planetary dynamo system is composed of a magnetosphere, the planet, the magnetic field, radiation belts, ring current, and charged particles from the solar wind. The planet is the central component of the system and its rotation plays an important part in operating the dynamo and generating ring current. The magnetic field is generated by the system’s ring current, which is made up of charged particles. The magnetic field captures even more charged particles and brings them into the dynamo system as fuel. Everything works together. Earth’s inner and outer core simply cannot provide the fuel a dynamo system needs. If earth’s dynamo had to depend on energy from the planet for fuel, the entire planet would have been completely consumed many years ago. To learn more about Earth’s magnetic field, Visit http://sites.google.com/site/earthsmagneticfield/ Hello Solar Science,

I am sending a news release regarding Earth’s magnetic field that you can use on your blog. Please consider using it. You can find images on my website.

Dennis

CRAM SCHOOL

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Dennis Brooks
Phone: 1-808-566-0654
Email: dennisbroo@gmail.com

Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Produced By An External Dynamo System, Not An Internal Dynamo.

Researcher finds that Earth’s magnetic field is not produced by an internal dynamo. Nor is it produced by ocean current. The dynamo is outside the Planet! New findings by independent researcher, Dennis Brooks, show that Earth’s magnetic field and the planet itself are components of a complex dynamo system, which surrounds the planet. The planet and its magnetic field are part of the dynamo.

According to this new theory, no internal dynamo or ocean current helps in producing or maintaining the magnetic field because other planets with magnetic fields do not have ocean currents or iron cores.

Image by NASA

Each planet does not have a unique way of producing its magnetic field. The magnetic field of each planet is produced by a planetary dynamo system and its ring current.

For many years researchers thought that a similar dynamo system was within the planet and that this internal dynamo generated the magnetic field. However, we know now that it is too hot inside the planet to produce and maintain a magnetic field there.

The planetary dynamo system is composed of a magnetosphere, the planet, the magnetic field, radiation belts, ring current, and charged particles from the solar wind. The planet is the central component of the system and its rotation plays an important part in operating the dynamo and generating ring current. The magnetic field is generated by the system’s ring current, which is made up of charged particles. The magnetic field captures even more charged particles and brings them into the dynamo system as fuel. Everything works together.

Earth’s inner and outer core simply cannot provide the fuel a dynamo system needs. If earth’s dynamo had to depend on energy from the planet for fuel, the entire planet would have been completely consumed many years ago.

To learn more about Earth’s magnetic field, Visit
http://sites.google.com/site/earthsmagneticfield/

]]> Comment on NASA predicts weak Solar Cycle 25 by Mike http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/2007/03/28/nasa-predicts-weak-solar-cycle-25/comment-page-1/#comment-715 Mike Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:58:22 +0000 http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/2007/03/28/nasa-predicts-weak-solar-cycle-25/#comment-715 I know this is massively late in posting, but since this article is still up it might be interesting for those viewing to see how this situation has evolved. It is now October of 2009 and we're STILL at minimum level activity. Cycle 24 is predicted to be weaker than normal, and now predictions are being made that cycle 25 might indeed be even weaker. But I get tired of people saying "slow down global warming." Look, I am all on top of cleaning up our act, but really. If the bloody sun goes cold, it doesn't "slow down" global warming; it STOPS it. Global cooling has occurred every time the sun has gone into these periods of low activity followed by stronger cycles of greater activity that then heat the oceans, the surface, and in turn the atmosphere. To ignore the very affect of a weaker sun and claim that it is buying us time. Its like candy dangling in front of a child's face. They don't ignore it. Why do we? If this pans out, and we go through a long cold period, then global warming isn't just postponed. That kind of proves that CO2 isn't as great of an insulator as we think. Attempting to say that temperatures would drop further without it is an unprovable hypothesis that has no business in real science. Cleaning up the environment is the right thing to do. However, ignoring the signs pointing to cooling rather than warming is bloody fool hardy at best. I know this is massively late in posting, but since this article is still up it might be interesting for those viewing to see how this situation has evolved. It is now October of 2009 and we’re STILL at minimum level activity. Cycle 24 is predicted to be weaker than normal, and now predictions are being made that cycle 25 might indeed be even weaker.

But I get tired of people saying “slow down global warming.” Look, I am all on top of cleaning up our act, but really. If the bloody sun goes cold, it doesn’t “slow down” global warming; it STOPS it. Global cooling has occurred every time the sun has gone into these periods of low activity followed by stronger cycles of greater activity that then heat the oceans, the surface, and in turn the atmosphere. To ignore the very affect of a weaker sun and claim that it is buying us time. Its like candy dangling in front of a child’s face. They don’t ignore it. Why do we?

If this pans out, and we go through a long cold period, then global warming isn’t just postponed. That kind of proves that CO2 isn’t as great of an insulator as we think. Attempting to say that temperatures would drop further without it is an unprovable hypothesis that has no business in real science.

Cleaning up the environment is the right thing to do. However, ignoring the signs pointing to cooling rather than warming is bloody fool hardy at best.

]]> Comment on Solar Science blog to go into extended minimum by George Walton http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/2009/10/03/solar-science-blog-to-go-into-extended-minimum/comment-page-1/#comment-710 George Walton Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:21:10 +0000 http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/2009/10/03/solar-science-blog-to-go-into-extended-minimum/#comment-710 See the Solar Terrestrial Activity Report prepared by Jan Alvestad. http://www.solen.info/solar/ A running 3-month plot of sunspot number, solar flux, and planetary A index updated daily. Plus details of current activity and historic charts. See the Solar Terrestrial Activity Report prepared by Jan Alvestad.

http://www.solen.info/solar/

A running 3-month plot of sunspot number, solar flux, and planetary A index updated daily.
Plus details of current activity and historic charts.

]]> Comment on SC24: Sunspots appear in both hemispheres by HE http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/2009/09/23/sc24-sunspots-appear-in-both-hemispheres/comment-page-1/#comment-709 HE Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:33:22 +0000 http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/?p=242#comment-709 Is there an official, I'm not sure of the terminology, start of solar cycle 24? When is the cutoff between 23 and 24? I see the excellent graph on the site below and it seems the minimum should be sometime in the 1st quarter of 2009 or maybe even April.. But the graph doesn't distinguish 23 and 24 sunspots. http://www.robertb.darkhorizons.org/DeepSolarMin.htm Is there an official, I’m not sure of the terminology, start of solar cycle 24? When is the cutoff between 23 and 24?

I see the excellent graph on the site below and it seems the minimum should be sometime in the 1st quarter of 2009 or maybe even April.. But the graph doesn’t distinguish 23 and 24 sunspots.

http://www.robertb.darkhorizons.org/DeepSolarMin.htm

]]> Comment on Solar Science blog to go into extended minimum by Steele http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/2009/10/03/solar-science-blog-to-go-into-extended-minimum/comment-page-1/#comment-708 Steele Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:29:37 +0000 http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/2009/10/03/solar-science-blog-to-go-into-extended-minimum/#comment-708 I've really enjoyed your remarkably exciting blog about... nothing really happening on the sun. I hope you'll find some free time in the future to come back. Until then, good luck to you with your other commitments. I’ve really enjoyed your remarkably exciting blog about… nothing really happening on the sun. I hope you’ll find some free time in the future to come back. Until then, good luck to you with your other commitments.

]]> Comment on SC24: Sunspots appear in both hemispheres by Gary DeBois http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/2009/09/23/sc24-sunspots-appear-in-both-hemispheres/comment-page-1/#comment-707 Gary DeBois Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:47:26 +0000 http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/?p=242#comment-707 Is there an official, I'm not sure of the terminology, start of solar cycle 24? When is the cutoff between 23 and 24? I see the excellent graph on the site below and it seems the minimum should be sometime in the 1st quarter of 2009 or maybe even April.. But the graph doesn't distinguish 23 and 24 sunspots. http://www.robertb.darkhorizons.org/DeepSolarMin.htm Is there an official, I’m not sure of the terminology, start of solar cycle 24? When is the cutoff between 23 and 24?

I see the excellent graph on the site below and it seems the minimum should be sometime in the 1st quarter of 2009 or maybe even April.. But the graph doesn’t distinguish 23 and 24 sunspots.

http://www.robertb.darkhorizons.org/DeepSolarMin.htm

]]> Comment on Solar Climate Linkages by dscott http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/2009/09/11/solar-climate-linkages/comment-page-1/#comment-698 dscott Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:25:10 +0000 http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/?p=236#comment-698 Yes, I saw a similar reference at Wattsupwiththat: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/10/solar-wind-suprise-this-discovery-is-like-finding-it-got-hotter-when-the-sun-went-down/#more-10728 However, while they talk about a transfer of energy and acknowledge it is heating the atmosphere in some way (2nd paragraph), they fail say in what form the energy transfer ends up being, e.g. to the Mesosphere in the form of higher air temperature (hence radiant heat downward to the trophosphere)... Ultimately, all weather on earth originates from space as a response to various influences whether that be it's orbital path shape, it's obliquity, the moon's orbital path inclination (influences the jet stream), TSI, solar wind, cosmic rays (cloud formation) and now solar magnetic field strength. Is it any wonder why the earth's weather appears chaotic from day to day and year to year? Yes, I saw a similar reference at Wattsupwiththat: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/10/solar-wind-suprise-this-discovery-is-like-finding-it-got-hotter-when-the-sun-went-down/#more-10728

However, while they talk about a transfer of energy and acknowledge it is heating the atmosphere in some way (2nd paragraph), they fail say in what form the energy transfer ends up being, e.g. to the Mesosphere in the form of higher air temperature (hence radiant heat downward to the trophosphere)…

Ultimately, all weather on earth originates from space as a response to various influences whether that be it’s orbital path shape, it’s obliquity, the moon’s orbital path inclination (influences the jet stream), TSI, solar wind, cosmic rays (cloud formation) and now solar magnetic field strength. Is it any wonder why the earth’s weather appears chaotic from day to day and year to year?

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