NASA Confirms Solar Storm Near 2012

An anonymous reader writes "`This week researchers announced that a storm is coming — the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one," she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958.`

`Dikpati's forecast puts Solar Max at 2012. Hathaway believes it will arrive sooner, in 2010 or 2011.`

Anyone familiar with the Mayan Calendar? December 21, 2012 (13.0.0.0.0 in the Mayan Calendar) Coincidence?"

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Insightful???

[dunc78]

Wow, great moderating. Two whole words, and this is moderated insightful? That has to be the most efficient post in ./ history. I'm going to make a program that counts the number of questions marks in a post and responds with random sequences of no and yes. Depending on the diversity of perogatives and knowledge in the ./ community, I can get up to 2^(Number of ?'s) insightful posts per questioning post. I will be the most insightful person ever.

Re:Oh nooo!!!

[ccarson]

Here are some facts about global warming. Some of which you hear and don't hear from the main stream media:

1.) Apparently, the Earth magnetic field has decreased by 10% in the last 150 years (source: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/earth_magnet ic_031212.html). I'm an electrical engineer and during my studies in particle physics, I learned that a particles velocity can be affected by magnetic fields. I believe it's possible that more of the Sun's radiation is penetrating the Earth's magnetosphere ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_magnetic_fiel d ) due to it being weaker. If more radiation hits the Earth, shouldn't that also increase the overall temperature of the Earth and can global warming be attributed to this?
2.) Jupitor is experiencing the same climate change that Earth is. (source: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060504_red_j r.html [space.com])
3.) Mars is experiencing the same climate change that Earth is. (source: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/ mars_snow_011206-1.html and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/new s/news.html?in_article_id=410901&in_page_id=1770)


How can you explain the recent same climate changes on different planets? I doubt it's all those cars being driven there.
4.) The United Nations found that there is more Methane produced from livestock, which raises global temperature greater than CO2 by a factor of approx. 20, than any human caused CO2 combined (source: http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/i ndex.html)


Is it possible that the warmer temperatures that Earth is experiencing are caused by cyclical natural phenomena? What about glaciers in Greenland that have been shrinking for 100 years (source: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/21/060821191 826.o0mynclv.html [breitbart.com])? Also, how do you explain huge ice ages on Earth? Were these caused by huge carbon emissions or was it a small natural climate cycle that just happens? Were those climate changes, which are no doubt more extreme than what's going on now, caused by the combustion engine? I don't have answers and everyone seems to have an opinion including a Nobel laureate who says the answer is more pollution (source: http://reports.discoverychannel.ca/servlet/an/disc overy/1/20061117/discovery_pollutionsolution_06111 7/20061117?hub=DiscoveryReport)

One last thing. Lets say we all buy into the fact that we're causing the climate change through CO2. Regardless of what actions we (America) take, China will still produce more CO2 than anyone because they want to get rich. There's no stopping it folks.

HA ha HA ! You lying kniving shitheads !

[unity100]

Check this out !

For 2000-3000 years now, there are prophecies as to great catastrophes around year 2012-13 or so, and not only in mayan religion, in many religions too.

Things seem to be going awry lately for the last 10 years, non-periodical quakes, weather anomalies, etc and such, everyone is aware.

when asked what was going on, for 10 years they have suppressed, smeared, belittled people wanting know what was afoot, and fed standard shit into the media - nothings happening nothing is wrong etc and shit - any abnormal phenomenon (like pre-quake lights in places that were about to have an earthquake), they have (10.000s of people) must have seen hallucionations/weather phenomenons (green, blue, red lights dancing in 5000 ft heights over the cities) etc etc.

in general they have been usual scientifict pricks, who are unfortunately passing as modern-day priests/churches of the modern science religion.

and when an earthquake of major proportions started happening in pacific close to inhabited regions, and every other major fault line bearing region of the earth started experiencing increased daily considerable (4 and more)quake activity, 'weather phenomenons' exploded in stuff, many 'ufo' sighthings started taking place over major cities, it started to be impossible to cover up whatever shit was going on with the world, and voila, now enter the 'solarstorm' excuse.

they have practised it actually for over 10 years now. by then solar storms were just causing minor distresses with the satellites, communication or local electricity infrastructure.

and suddenly there is a MAJOR warning of a MAJOR solarstorm, that curiously coincides with doomsday prophecy date from zillions of different religions/legends of human history, worldwide.

now all they need to do to acquit themselves from their kniving ongoing cover-up of whatever is going to happen is to say that solar storms CAN cause earthquakes, climate changes, orbit changes, mass deaths, ufo sightings, paranormal phenomenon, (insert whatever they were denying and covering up here). just like that.

i just dont buy the fucking solar storm lie. something is ongoing around and on the increase apparently, but what it is, these pricks wont tell us. what the shit they are doing is just to acquit themselves from the sure-to-befall guilt which will result from their coverup of what was and is going to happen for all these years.

Re:Apocalypse?

[muellerr1]

To all those mods who modded me flamebait: I'm an insensitive clod--I hadn't realized that you were sheeple. Yeesh, used to be that making fun of fundies guaranteed the +5's.

Global Warming, is there no end to Bush's evil?

[BigFire]

This just proved that not only is the CO2 on Earth killing the baby seals in the Arctic Ocean, it's actually causing Solar Storm from the sun. Is there no end to Bush's evil?

Re:Oh nooo!!!

[ltbarcly]

Claim in bible => True?

0. "No one now living will die" -Jesus circa 30AD => Proven False
1. Earth is flat => Proven False
2. Sun revolves around earth => Proven False
3. Animals/Woman created AFTER man => Proven False
4. Animals created whole in current form => Proven False

The bible has a pretty bad track record. I wouldn't bet that it's predictions hold true either.

Re:You know...

[Caspian]

Christ on a cracker... Can you fundamentalist lunatics stay out of ANY discussion? EVER? Please take your homophobic, misogynistic, pro-slavery, mass-murdering, jealous ASSHOLE of a God and go the fuck AWAY with him.