Molasses Sun

Thankfully, NOAA now has GOES 14 online.  This means that even though the Sun is in deep minimum, we can again monitor solar x-ray activity. 

The above graph depicts solar x-ray activity for Dec 15 through Dec 18 UTC.  There are four distinct solar x-ray spikes; three of them are on Dec 16, and the first of the series in on Dec 15 at about 14:00 to 15:00 hrs.  According to my research, these spikes indicate a gravitational wave passed through the solar system at the indicated times. 

Usually, the spikes rise and fall so quick that they are as thin as the last spike on Dec 17.  The slow fall times of the gravitational wave spikes seems to indicate the Sun is becoming thicker, like molasses.  This should coincide with lower solar surface temperatures.  Hopefully, someone is measuring solar surface temperature right now.  If the solar surface temperature is dropping, that might explain the slowly decaying solar x-ray spikes.

I would point out that slow decays also occur during major X class flares and during solar maximum.  However, those slow decays are due to excessively strong magnetic fields.  The present slow decay rates seem to have a different cause.

Dave

Plasma Discharge Phenomenon Begins

I had predicted earlier this year that we were likely to experience a rare event, which occurs every few thousand years. David Talbott has been researching this phenomenon for the past thirty years, which was also reported earlier by Emanuel Velikovsky.

A plasma discharge has just occurred in Norway.

This is an electrical event caused by the extremely quiet Sun. As the solar winds died down, electrostatic charges began increasing around all the planets. The positively charged solar wind normally sweeps the negative ion buildup away from the planets. As can be seen in the Total Electron Count (TEC) maps, the planet is presently experience a strong electrostatic charge.

Coincident with this strong electrostatic activity is an unusual ramping up of solar x-ray flux:

The quiet Sun appears to be caused by an unusually long transit of the solar barycenter across the surface of the Sun.  Furthermore, the solar system is now approaching the Milky Way magnetic plane, which among other things, has a strong galactic magnetic field.  It is also the source of the increase in large bollides burning up in the Earth's atmosphere, and also the unexpected large asteroid collision with Jupiter recently.

There will be more of this new and exciting activity occurring in the next several years.

Land Uplift in Alaska

From HomerNews.com in Alaska:

Like a giant fist punching through the earth, a 1,000-foot long section of the beach below Bluff Point rose up 20 feet from the tidelands sometime last Friday or late Thursday, pushing boulders up from the ocean bottom, cracking sandstone slabs and toppling rocks upside down.

Below Bluff Point, a new fissure opened up at the base of the 800-foot high cliff. The uplift could be a re-activation of a landslide that happened perhaps 12,000 years ago.

Scientists don't know exactly what caused the uplift. It would take an earthquake over magnitude 7 to cause an uplift that high, said Peter Haeussler, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Anchorage.

Another New Comet to Solar System

As reported on spaceweather.com, comet Lulin (C/2007 N3), discovered in 2007, is passing through our solar system. Since 2003, our solar system has entered an Interstellar dust cloud. Since then, numerous new comets and asteroids have been observed. Astronomer Karzaman Ahmad sends this picture taken Jan. 7th from the Langkawi National Observatory in Malaysia:

The near-parabolic orbit of Comet Lulin suggests this could be the comet's first visit to the inner solar system.

Global Warming and Predictions of an Impending Ice Age - Part 1

"Is the sun the source of that extra heat? The data clearly show that it is not."



And there is the end of your argument. The Sun is the ONLY source of heat in the solar system on planetary scales. Carbon dioxide does not produce heat, it traps heat. If the source of the heat cools down, no amount of carbon dioxide will heat the planet. Conversely, if the Sun heats up, no decrease in carbon dioxide will cool the planet.



You are taking the side that solar irradiance is virtually invariable, yet you agree it is variable. You are taking the side that carbon dioxide heats the planet, but carbon dioxide gas does not produce heat. At best, carbon dioxide gas traps heat, but only if there is heat that can be trapped. Since solar irradiance has declined, average ocean temperatures have also declined. The ocean is the primary source of heat, which the carbon dioxide is supposed to trap. Your argument fails on all sides.
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Global Warming and Predictions of an Impending Ice Age - Part 1

"1. I never said or implied that there was not an 'unequivocal connection between solar activity and Earth temperature changes.' "



And I did not say you did. I said, "Bill would need to provide sunspot data for the past 300 years, not 30 years..." and then it was my opinion that you would see the unequivocal connection between solar activity and Earth temperature changes.



Because the Earth has polar ice, it has a mechanism for storing heat without significantly raising the atmospheric temperature. Increases in solar irradiance accrue, however, the heat manifests as ice changing to water thus decreasing the Earth's albedo. Fast heating of the Earth from 150 years ago is absorbed by the ice with very little atmospheric temperature change, but when the ice is significantly reduced, the Earth is able to absorb more solar irradiance in the visible spectrum. Hence, temperatures may continue to rise slightly even if total solar irradiance decreases slightly or remains constant.



As Bubu pointed out above, changes in solar irradiance also relate to changes in cosmic rays hitting the Earth, which affects cloud cover. There are several feedback systems related to solar activity.



If carbon dioxide were the true cause of global warming, then a linear increase in temperature would occur. Let us predict the warming or cooling of the coming winter (December 2008 through April 2009). Then we can falsify either the global warming theory or the TSI theory.
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Solomons Islands Rise Ten Feet out of Ocean

Earth changes are occurring right before us. The Earth's coastlines are rising and sinking and it has nothing to do with global warming or global thawing. The geology of the inner Earth is becoming much more active. The recent Solomon's 8.0 earthquake is just one more example, of many to come.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21524866-601,00.html

Below are two recent solar flares:

This follows a strong, and possibly quite distant gamma ray burst. If the solar flares represent gravitational waves striking the Sun, then the presumed long distance of the burst is supported by the relatively long lag from the time the GRB arrived and the late arriving gravitational wave.
Below is a GRB report from:
http://grb.sonoma.edu/details.php?id=203
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This was a relatively long burst, lasting at least 120 seconds. The total length is unknown as yet due to a data backlog from the downlink station.This may (repeat, may) be a very important burst. It was not seen at all at optical wavelengths, but it was definitely detected in the near infrared. If there is significant dust in the burst's host galaxy, optical light can be absorbed, leaving only infrared able to reach us. However, the brightness and fading rate observed don't support this conclusion.The other possibility is that this burst is *very* far away. The data indicate a probable redshift of z = 6-8, corresponding to a distance of 12.7 to 13 billion light years. This could mean this was the most distant object ever detected! Astronomers will be keeping a close eye on this burst over the next few hours to collect more data and try to pin down the actual redshift.
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Dave