Scientists Predict Big Solar Cycle

Posted by Zonk on Saturday December 23, 2006 @11:24AM from the batten-down-the-planet dept.

An anonymous reader pointed us at a post on the Physorg blog, which discusses the possibility of an upcoming period of intense solar weather. We've discussed this before, but increasingly the evidence looks like 'Solar Cycle 24' (due to start in 2010 or so) is going to make life interesting here on earth. From the post: "Hathaway explains: 'When a gust of solar wind hits Earth's magnetic field, the impact causes the magnetic field to shake. If it shakes hard enough, we call it a geomagnetic storm.' In the extreme, these storms cause power outages and make compass needles swing in the wrong direction. Auroras are a beautiful side-effect. Hathaway and Wilson looked at records of geomagnetic activity stretching back almost 150 years and noticed something useful:. 'The amount of geomagnetic activity now tells us what the solar cycle is going to be like 6 to 8 years in the future,' says Hathaway."

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Damn them solarians! by whoop · 2006-12-23 12:12 · Score: 0, Troll

So, obviously our culture has diseased the innocent solarian people. Now they are causing their own homeland to have solar warming.

When will we learn from Algore??

And it's been scientifically proven by consensus that the above is true. The only ones who doubt it are right-wing, gun-toting religious wackos who want corporations to make money and kill Bambi. Don't fall for their hype.