Harold Saive: Global Coolong Back In Forecast

After IPCC Steers Global Warming Into Iceberg! The Mayan's didn't use their calendar to predict doom in 2012, but their 394 year Baktun cycle, may predict a long period of low solar activity, and years of extreme global cooling, starting now. Marking the end of the thirteenth Baktun on December 21, 2012, places the onset of solar events that led to the Maunder Minimum, also referred to as the "Little Ice Age". Are we ready yet for potentially disastrous impacts of space weather? Comparing a future solar event to the 1859 Carrington event: Directly or indirectly, a comparable geomagnetic storm today, and in the foreseeable future, would likely include widespread, and long term disruptions on transportation and commerce, agriculture and food stocks, medical facilities, satellite based communication and navigation systems, national security, etc. By Steve Trackton, The Capital Weather Gang, a review of the 2012 Space Weather Enterprise Forum, presented by The National Space Weather Program Council. Are we ready yet, for potentially disastrous impacts of space weather? Comparing a future solar event, to the 1859 Carrington event: Directly or indirectly, a comparable geomagnetic storm today, and in the foreseeable future, would likely include widespread, and long term disruptions on transportation and commerce, agriculture and food stocks, medical facilities, satellite based communication, and navigation systems, national security, etc. By Steve Trackton: The Capital Weather Gang, A review of the 2012 Space Weather Enterprise Forum,presented by The National Space Weather Program Council. Our Sun is losing Energy: The typical peak to peak solar cycle have long been established to be about 11 years. The last solar minimum began in 2001, following an unremarkable maximum, but in April 2009, the solar minimum was officially recognized as having lasted far longer than normal. It was not until the middle of 2010, when sunspot numbers began to increase, signalling an overdue, but very weak return to a solar maximum. Relative to Earth, the maximum would be even weaker, than forecast, due to to a mysterious absence of earth directed solar flares, a persistent event, that continues to defy the label of "coincidence." The health of Earth's atmosphere, extending out to the magnetosphere, relies on the energy of solar flares to maintain, what we have come to expect as a "normal" electrical balance between Earth, Sun and the solar system.