Sentences with phrase «about sunspot»

Finally, I don't recall any national leaders talking about sunspot activity.

Klapper, others - Note that there is some ambiguity about the sunspot numbers - according to Svalgaard 2012, due to changes in counting methods the sunspot numbers pre-1875 are low by a factor of 50 %, and the numbers from 1940 onward are high by a factor of 20 %.

In the solar science circles, during the last two years, there is a raging debate about sunspot activity, and why NASA's top people got it so wrong.

I'd also be keen to know more about the sunspot activity vs. temperature, which according to Channel 4's «The Great Global Warming Swindle» is also an excellent fit with temperature.

I know this is about sunspots but wouldn't it make sense that there would be magnetic cycles of a larger degree that would cause warming and cooling?

The Incas, Arabs and Chinese all knew about sunspots and their effect on climate — and agriculture.

As well as changing their mind about 1998 the alarmists are also changing their mind about sunspots.

Leif is thinking about sunspots which were quite numerous during cycle 19.

It was about sunspots, and only peripherally about climate, but the rumor was that the implications for a potential Maunder type minimum was the main reason why the paper was rejected in the first place.

Granted, all this stuff about sunspots is pretty speculative, but the last time they disappeared it got cold.

At the risk of being a bore, I again recall with fascination the BBC2 Horizon prog 30 + years ago all about Sunspots, you know, that time when the BBC was a trusted, well respected, honourable, & factual public broadcaster.

We Americans have garnered ourselves quite a little reputation as foot - dragging obstructionists when it comes to global warming; the arctic is melting, our crops are drying out, the problem is staring us in the face, the rational world is moving to act, and our politicians and pundits blather on about sunspots and debunked conspiracy theories.

They're talking about sunspots, but how are they related to aurora?

Not exact matches

These deltas «comprise about 5 percent of the total number of sunspots, but contribute almost 100 percent of the trouble,» he says.

How old we look is not just about counting the wrinkles at the corners of our eyes or the sunspots that dapple our skin.

So far this has been the best way to observe the surface structures of distant stars, but there may be misinterpretations, so there have been doubts about the accuracy concerning the existence of the polar sunspots.

We could see the four small sunspots jumping about like a family of fleas.

Wang's team is now analyzing sunspot images in conjunction with about 100 other recent flares to search for similar events.

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.

A: The sun is now just about at the peak of its 11 - year solar cycle, meaning that there are a significant number of sunspots visible.

The gigantic sunspot in the upper left of this image is about 50,000 miles (80,000 km) long and was observed on the sun by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on Nov. 3, 2011.

The number of sunspots varies as solar magnetic activity does — the change in this number, from a minimum of none to a maximum of roughly 250 sunspots or clusters of sunspots and then back to a minimum, is known as the solar cycle, and averages about 11 years long.

The future scenes also contain some good action beats that bookend the 1973 section, but because many of the featured mutants (like Bishop, Blink, Warpath and Sunspot) are appearing on screen for the first time with almost no introduction, you don't really care what happens to any of them, especially when the actors only have about three lines of dialogue combined.

From the plotted data about the previous sunspot cycle, they predict when the next sunspot cycle will occur.

About the sun we should be at a maximum in the sunspot cycle but it has failed to happen.

Because of the variations of sunspots and faculae on the sun's surface, the total solar irradiance (TSI), also called the solar constant, varies on a roughly 11 - year cycle by about 0.07 %, which has been measured by orbiting satellites since 1978 [Lean, 1987, 1991; Wilson et al., 1981].

You seem to be happy about a leveling off trend even though we are essentially in a cool phase with low sunspot activity and La Nina occurrence.

We talked about the temperatures going down potentially with higher sunspots based on the (possibly very dubious) spectral results reported in Haigh et al (2010)-- but I think that is unlikely.

Could you comment on the recent articles about the reduction in sunspot activity possibly negating the effect of global warming and even putting us into another Little Ice Age.

It is simply astounding that solar cycle 24 having the least CME's or sun spots, «NASA predicts that solar cycle 24 will peak in early or mid 2013 with about 59 sunspots.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/08/did-the-sun-hit-record-highs-over-the-last-few-decades/ «Regardless of any discussion about solar irradiance in past centuries, the sunspot record and neutron monitor data (which can be compared with radionuclide records) show that solar activity has not increased since the 1950s and is therefore unlikely to be able to explain the recent warming.»

Just that is enough to create about 0.08 K of warming; not much but over the sunspot cycle the global temperature varies by about 0.1 + K.

My colleague Ken Chang has written about the sun's unusual stretch with 205 days this year without sunspots and a sleepy solar wind.

The reconstructed sunspot number shows in particular a minimum at about 7k, slow rise to a maximum at 4.5 k and decrease again.

If we scale sunspot numbers so that the variations from solar minimum to maximum represent about a 0.1 deg change in temperature, and if we lag the sunspot data 6 years, it compares well visually with the adjusted GISS LOTI data.

Eighteen sunspot minima in 7,800 years is about 400 years per cycle.

In about 1700 we had the «Maunder Minimum», when there were no sunspots (indicating low solar magnetism) for a period of some years.

During the past 5 - 6 years the solar radiation decreased by about 0.2 W / m2 since the sunspot cycle was in its decreasing phase.

According to Livingston, Penn and Svalgaard, sunspots become invisible below about 1500 gauss.

Instead of trying to CON Vaughn, for him to legitimize your lies; explain first: how are you going to prove to the jury about the correct number of» documented sunspots» for the last 997 years, before 1990 AD?!

You're not allowed to talk about solar energy, sunspots, storms on the sun.

If we're really serious about understanding if and when sunspot activity had anything to do with global warming, we ought to start evaluating from the time when the running average annual SSN is the highest (going back from now), which is 68.9, 1936 - now.

(June 17, 2011) Five years ago, NASA's David Hathaway predicted that the Sun was about to enter an unusually intense period of sunspot activity.

Do sunspots explain about 0.15 degree C of warming since the little ice age?

Detailed information about the various diagnostics and corrections applied to the Sunspot Number in version 2.0 can be found in:

With solar max about 2 years away the question remains «will there be enough sunspot activity necessary for pole polarity reversal»?

During more modern times, the Maunders, re-examining sunspot records kept at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, established the famous butterfly diagramthat shows the quasi-symmetrical distribution of sunspots between about 40 ° N and 40 ° S over the 11 - year solar cycle — one butterfly per cycle.

What is special about the Maunder Minimum is the fact that during that period sunspots barely appeared on the Sun's northern hemisphere and, when they appeared in the Southern portion, the dark spots were very narrowly crowded within a narrow band 20 degrees off the solar equator.

If the sunspots were to ever go through real extremum, I doubt there would be anyone left here to talk about it.

Yet according to this study: http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2006/brightness.shtml «Data collected from radiometers on U.S. and European spacecraft show that the Sun is about 0.07 percent brighter in years of peak sunspot activity, such as around 2000, than when spots are rare (as they are now, at the low end of the 11 - year solar cycle).