Major Drop In Solar Activity Predicted

[Thomas F Davis]

May I ask, what dire predictions?
A disappearance of sunspots will likely be a repeat of Maunder Minimum and the "Little Ice Age" of the 1600's.  The shortwave bands will not be open for decades, and the growing season will be shorter in northern latitudes, but that's about it.  We survived it then, and we'll survive this.
Tom W1TFD

--- On Sat, 6/25/11, Richard O'Neill <richardoneill at earthlink.net> wrote:

From: Richard O'Neill <richardoneill at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Major Drop In Solar Activity Predicted
To: tacos at amrad.org
Date: Saturday, June 25, 2011, 11:07 AM



  
    
  
  
     Well, isn't that just peachy! In the fifties we were warned of an
    impending ice age, nuclear testing fallout in our food and fast
    dwindling oil reserves. Off course the threat of nuclear
    annihilation was always in the background but folks mostly managed
    to ignore that.

    

     Then came ozone depletion and the prediction that we were all going
    to die of starvation from ultraviolet induced crop failures.
    Meanwhile, skin cancer would eat us alive. As those warnings started
    to fade our collective latent paranoia was once again reinforced by
    Al Gore's inconvenient nonsense delivered to a scientifically
    ignorant/ politically gullible populace governed by ruthless
    politicians. 

    

     Now that these dire predictions have been unmasked as fiction we're
    faced yet again with an unproven yet 'almost certain' calamity by
    cosmic forces beyond our control. What is a poor human to do?
    Threats abound everywhere! 

    

     Perhaps some day cockroaches will inherit the Earth. In the
    meantime I think I'll have lunch and a short snooze. As Alfred E.
    Neuman said,

    "What - Me worry?   :-) 

     

  


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