Breaking news...

[Gilligan]

..who woulda thunk this was possible?

In a discovery scientists are calling "shocking," it turns out that solar output, that is, how much radiative heat the sun pumps out, is, get this, somewhat variable and changes over the years, and furthermore, changes in solar output may actually have effects in places as distant as -- well, let's say the Earth, for example.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/357519.php

 

[GWguy]

..who woulda thunk this was possible?





http://ace.mu.nu/archives/357519.php

Well, don't know about you, but I learned something....


Like some people really are stupid.

It's been years, and wouldn't even remember where I read or learned it, but there was something about how just a tiny tiny fraction of the sun's energy makes it to the earth, a basically insignificant amount. The loss of just 1% more of the amount that does make it would wipe out all life on earth, we'd freeze.

The sun's energy fluctuates all the time. The earth responds accordingly.

 

[Gilligan]

Well, don't know about you, but I learned something....

I've accepted the fact that the only time I can learn anything new any more is when TommyJo posts.