Uh Oh There goes Global Warming ...

[OldsnowboarderME]

:roll:

 

[Moe Ghoul]

In the past, they observed that the sun once went 50 years without producing sunspots. That period coincided with a little ice age on Earth that lasted from 1650 to 1700.
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Who is "they"? I find it hard to believe anyone was able to point a telescope at the sun and make that observation in 1650. Did they have telescopes capable of that back then?

 

[Moe Ghoul]

Ever hear of Galileo Galilei?

Sure, 1610, but I don't think it was a refractor or reflector. They just slapped concave and convex together and stared into space

 

[Moe Ghoul]

I never thought they had developed a telescope capable of making solar observations that early. Has little to do with age, lol.

 

[Moe Ghoul]

Uh, I knew the time frame and that it was Galileo. I didn't know that sunspot observations were made that early. I'll wager that you are the only one on this board that knew that.

 

[Moe Ghoul]

Ok, you win. I'm dumb. Happy?

 

[Moe Ghoul]

I don't follow baseball, too many and too long a game with little to no action most of the time. But I'll cheer for the hometown team

 

[Moe Ghoul]

We can't all be omniscient geniuses like you. I do the best I can.

 

[ski_resort_observer]

The Medival Ice Age actually lasted closer to 400 years and is the reason we all do not have Scandinavian accents, say yumping yiminy alot and ski with helmets with horns....:lol: Prior to this there was 500 years of global warming. In the warmer temps England started growing grapes and producing wine much to the chagrin of France and almost went to war over it. Saw a show on the history channel a couple of months ago about it.

I'm hoping to grow pineapple trees here in Vermont in the not to distant future. A friend in Maine is doing it right now.

 

[wa-loaf]

Bring on the ice age! Just as long as it's not as abrupt as in that movie "day after tomorrow?".

 

[hardline]

Galileo began his sun-spot observations in 1612 .. I am sure others continued these observations on through the rest of the century.. refractor telescope is what he used..

the data flawed.
1612 to now isn't even a dot on the astral timeline. any statistician will tell you that 1612 to now as comapred from the time the sun arived in its current astral location within the milky way is not enough for a proper dataset.

 

[hardline]

My favorite kind of person a statistician .. has the ability show or prove anything equally in either direction..

i will give you that statisticians are the alchemists of numbers but averages are the only way we have to predict a future event.