The SUN's solar activity and climate change

All this crap about man being the cause of global warming never ceases. In the political arena man is to blame and everyone totally discounts the effects of the SUN. What a bunch of moron’s using nature’s normal cycle as an excuse to generate taxes (cap and trade/carbon emission reduction) and force lifestyle changes on the population. Years ago I took a course on the Sun’s effects on radio propagation. This was long before Owl Gore and his CO2 vs temperature chart (which he read backwards by the way). It was quite apparent that the 11 year solar sunspot cycle’s overall trend has the greatest influence on the Earth’s temperature. Much more than what man can do to the planet. We have been at the bottom of the last solar cycle for a much greater period of time then cycles in the past. If the new solar cycle had followed the pattern of previous cycles we would now be a couple of years into a rising sunspot count. This pattern has not occurred in this cycle. We have been in a period of no sunspot activity. We have been in the low period of sunspots for a few years. The comment below speaks of the period of time where NO sunspots have appeared at all. Continued low solar activity will drive the Earth temperatures down. In the current political arena the wording is changing from “global warming” to “climate change”. That way they cover all bases no matter what the temperature does. They can continue to spread lies about climate change to effect new taxes and control of the population.


This is comment was in a DX news letter that follows along with what I found when I took the propagation course.


Out in space the sun remains on a record pace at 51 days without sunspots, and no expectations of any change soon.  We’ll be in the top 3 longest quiet periods by Wednesday evening (tied with 54 days from 1879) and by late next week we’ll head into the 2nd position as we surpass 63 days from 1901. The daily solar observations began in 1849, but we know from other observations between 1400 and 1830 that these
periods of sunspot minimums were associated with a 400-year stretch known as the Little Ice Age. The only problem with observations from that time is that there were no telescopes and satellites with the observational power we have today. In other words, the long periods without sunspots are even more impressive now because we can pick out the smallest sunspot, ones that would have been missed 100 to 200 years ago. We
won’t know if this is true for a long time, but at this point there is no reason to discount the idea that we’re heading into another Little Ice Age, or possible a major ice age. Time will tell…