Oh but you've sure got everything working like clockwork, haven't you? 11-year solar cycle, etc. And everything just HAS to follow these silly little observations as though they were great laws of the universe that even the sun itself has to follow for fear of retribution of the gods... or even worse - a scolding from The Great mgopilot!!!
So the last observed peak was in 2001, and the next one's expected in 2012, right? Well, the sun's decided that it's not interested in that today. See, you have to at least not be so naive to think that science makes any attempt to set out laws for nature to follow, but merely observes nature to try to understand it.
As for what you think of me is indicative of just how off-base your estimates are in general! But, I digress.
So back to the sun not obeying the 11-year cycle you think it is obliged to follow. 28 October 2003 saw the third largest recoded storm classified X17.2. To give you an idea of that magnitude, in March '89, an X15 knocked out power for millions of people in Canada. In 2001, two unexpected (even for being in the 11-year peak) X20's occurred.
By April 25 last year, sunspot 756 had already grown to five times the size of the earth, when it is very unusual for sunspots to even be appearing during a solar minimum!
So keep 'em peeled in 2012. Might not necessarily happen, but it looks like we might just be in for a really dramatic solar maximum!
And if you honestly think that our planet's heating has nothing to do with the sun, then you need to climb out of your
cave de glace sometime, and look upwards - you'll notice a big yellow thing in the sky - if it wan't for that thing, the earth would be experiencing a temperature of near 3K!
Tab. solar flux/temperature?
Linear Mode
