Solar Wind Slowing Down: WE ARE DOOMED!
@redyellowblackdog (10629)
United States
September 25, 2008 12:00pm CST
Yes, it is true.
The solar wind is slowing down. Unfortunately, we have not been able to measure this critical feature of the sun for very long. So, we don't really know if this is important or not. Still, I did not lie. WE ARE DOOMED! We just don't know when or why. It is unlikey the solar wind decreasing will kill us all, but it could happen.
Here's the story about the solar wind.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7632331.stm
I say that given the decrease in sunspots and now the decreasing solar wind, which just does happen to corelate with the heat output of the sun, global cooling is a bigger worry right now than global warming.
What do you say?
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@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
25 Sep 08
My favorite hypothesis along these lines is that mankind was placed on earth to emit from their machines the extra CO2 needed because plants could not exhale enough CO2 to prevent the earth from freezing during an upcoming solar cold cycle.
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@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
30 Sep 08
OOPs... Of course, higher animals emit CO2 and breath oxygen while plants breath CO2 and exhale oxygen. Just change the smart aleck remark around to fit. Thanks.
@Barb42 (4214)
• United States
25 Sep 08
Well, redyellowblackdog, we came here dying the minute we entered this world. Maybe,if we'd had a choice, we wouldn't have come.
Seriously, I believe global warming and global cooling has always been around. We just haven't had the means by which to measure it. And now people want to say they know more than God does. I think I'll leave the environment to him and keep on doing what I know best, living my life.
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@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
25 Sep 08
In the not too distant future it is likely that even the public at large will be amazed that so many got so upset about something so obviously untrue. It very well may be that man made global warming will some day have the same credibility as phrenology.
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@Barb42 (4214)
• United States
25 Sep 08
I really think most people are smart enough already to know that Al Gore doesn't know what he's talking about. We've had these changes in the climate as long as people have been reporting it. But it's brought him lots of money through his books, I am sure. Gives him something to talk about besides his claim that he invented the Internet.
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@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
25 Sep 08
Well, you already know where I stand on the man made global warming hysteria.
We already know that there has been no warming since 1998, and that the earth has actually been cooling for a couple of years now.... despite the CO2 output that has been falsely attributed to climate change.
The sun is the ONLY SOURCE of warming for the earth, so anything that happens with it results in how warm or cold our climate gets.
No legislation of Congress is going to change that...or change the climate.
Whatever the climate does, the only thing we can do is what we have done for millennia, and that is adapt to the changes... whatever they may be.
This also illustrates that warming and cooling is indeed cyclical, that it is natural, and unavoidable... no matter how much man tries to interfere.
It seems that not only are there long cycles of cooling and warming, such as ice ages and now... these long cycles contain much shorter cycles such as the cooling scare we witnessed about 30 years ago.
Man has nothing to do with this, and all we can do is adpt to our changing climate.
Our climate is in a state of constant flux, so we are bound to have warmer and cooler alternating periods depending on what the sun does.
If by chance it explodes, then we might have time to notice it about 8 minutes later... although I wouldn't count on it.
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@clrumfelt (5490)
• United States
26 Sep 08
There are so many possibilities around already for earth's demise, why worry if one more is added to the list? There's nothing we can do about any of it, so why worry? When it's our day to go, well go.
@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
26 Sep 08
Yes, let's enjoy the good earth God has given us while not messing it up for those to follow. There really is not much else to be done.