2012 and Solar flares

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

I bet there are lots O'people out there thinking, "cool, I won't have to finish paying off my credit cards"!

- dissin' the Irish again, eh

[pmajka]

On the other hand, We could have no solar flare activity. Sun has an 11 yr cycle, but hey, If its round and generates gravity, it has a weather cycle.

I wonder how Global Warming, I mean climate change was affected during the little ice age. There was little to no solar flare activity recorded at this time. Called the Maunder Minimum.

Maunder Minimum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[BeyGon]

Webb says sun spots and solar flares having anything to do with climate change was debunked a long time ago.

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by cwiert

Its not like there's a set date or anything... just a range over a few years when the "experts" are expecting a solar storm. i think it just brings to light (no pun intended) the vulnerability of our entire way of life. It doesn't seem to out of the realm that a solar flare could knock out power for some length of time to a large area. As some "experts" said, it's happened before, but we just didn't have the technology at the time for it to harm anything. Things are a bit different now.

When exactly does someone become a non-parenthetical expert to you?

Those "experts" as you call them are drawing on an extraordinarily high resolution knowledge of the sun, being examined more than almost anything else in the world, as well as thousands of years of actual direct observation (not the secondary stuff like the climate scientists are using). If this isn't enough raw information and knowledge to make someone a full fledged expert, than what does it take?

[Jim Richards]

"Experts" are too thin-skinned.

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

"Experts" are too thin-skinned.

Not at all like the "underground bunker faithful", right?

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

Not at all like the "underground bunker faithful", right?

Right. Or us "drive-by internet smart-asses." Hmmm, should "us" be parenthetical, too?

[Pazuzu]

There is no "us" in "them"...but there is "us" in "pus".

What does that say about "us"?

[The Gaijin]

Originally Posted by BeyGon

Webb says sun spots and solar flares having anything to do with climate change was debunked a long time ago.

Apparently, solar activity is part of the mix used by the almanac people to forecast weather.

Also, we are protected by intense radiation by the earth's magnetic fields. Flying high altitudes near the poles is limited during these events.

[Jim Richards]

It's only "me," which might be part of "them," only "I'm" just looking in a mirror.

[red-beard]

Hey Mike, Welcome back! Good to see you jumping back in with both feet!

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by BeyGon

Webb says sun spots and solar flares having anything to do with climate change was debunked a long time ago.

try to get straight what people actually do say

after that, you can work on context

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

... expert, than what does it take?

c'mon! - you know it takes the correct politics AND the willingness to have your politics affect everything you say to be a real expert to the PARF BARFers

[BeyGon]

Originally Posted by RWebb

try to get straight what people actually do say

after that, you can work on context

so you are changin what you said again? no surprise there.

[BeyGon]

Originally Posted by RWebb

c'mon! - you know it takes the correct politics AND the willingness to have your politics affect everything you say to be a real expert to the PARF BARFers

this from the ONLY expert here. On EVERYTHING.

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by beygon

this from the only expert here. On everything.

Hahahaha!

[RWebb]

I'm sorry you people never put forth the effort to get an education.

[red-beard]

So Randy, what are you this week?

[BeyGon]

I think he is randy. in old english.

[cwiert]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

When exactly does someone become a non-parenthetical expert to you?

Those "experts" as you call them are drawing on an extraordinarily high resolution knowledge of the sun, being examined more than almost anything else in the world, as well as thousands of years of actual direct observation (not the secondary stuff like the climate scientists are using). If this isn't enough raw information and knowledge to make someone a full fledged expert, than what does it take?

Fair question. I'd have left off the parentheses had I known specifically who the "experts" were. Some of the info I was referring to I heard on TV shows. Other info I read on conspiracy theory websites. So yeah, those "experts" get the parentheses....because really, who are they? I wasn't referring to the (non-parenthetical) experts at NASA or any other specific group.