Comments on: Here comes the Sun(spot)! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/17/here-comes-the-sunspot/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:36:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sun Spot Problem Finally Solved | Disinformation http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/17/here-comes-the-sunspot/comment-page-1/#comment-215983 Sun Spot Problem Finally Solved | Disinformation Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:56:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/17/here-comes-the-sunspot/#comment-215983 [...] GO TO FULL STORY [...] [...] GO TO FULL STORY [...]

]]> By: steve http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/17/here-comes-the-sunspot/comment-page-1/#comment-206704 steve Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:13:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/17/here-comes-the-sunspot/#comment-206704 August 16 2009 36 days running no sunspots ! August 16 2009 36 days running no sunspots !

]]> By: Sun, Sun, Sun … here it comes – NOT « Greenfyre’s http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/17/here-comes-the-sunspot/comment-page-1/#comment-201316 Sun, Sun, Sun … here it comes – NOT « Greenfyre’s Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:17:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/17/here-comes-the-sunspot/#comment-201316 [...] Here comes the Sun(spot)! [...] [...] Here comes the Sun(spot)! [...]

]]> By: David http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/17/here-comes-the-sunspot/comment-page-1/#comment-195286 David Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:27:48 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/17/here-comes-the-sunspot/#comment-195286 An interesting bit of work, but I don't understand how a one year delay in this sub-surface movement has produced a three year delay in the start of the cycle. In 2006, the main-stream prediction was for a year's delay, but a very energetic cycle. Cycle 24 has finally started, but it certainly doesn't look energetic. An interesting bit of work, but I don’t understand how a one year delay in this sub-surface movement has produced a three year delay in the start of the cycle. In 2006, the main-stream prediction was for a year’s delay, but a very energetic cycle. Cycle 24 has finally started, but it certainly doesn’t look energetic.

]]> By: Ken http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/17/here-comes-the-sunspot/comment-page-1/#comment-194940 Ken Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:40:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/17/here-comes-the-sunspot/#comment-194940 RE: KC Says -- paraphrasing that remark that 'this wasn't a NASA press release' ... NASA might not have done the work, but, it DID sponsor the work & did provide the press release; the NASA press release for this is at: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/17jun_jetstream.htm?list1065474 Also, Stanford's Dr. Leif Svaalgard (an eminently qualified 'solar scientist') addressed this specific press release, and he didn't mince words, at (scroll down or search to the first "Leif" reference): http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/17/solar-cycle-24-lack-of-sunspots-caused-by-sluggish-solar-jet-stream-returning-soon/#more-8598 He comments regularly at that site to inject some objective science -- and deserves credit for restricting his comments to the subject for which he's most qualified. I just wished our "Bad Astronomer" picked up on what that release was really about and gave it the proper credit due, and no more.... RE: KC Says — paraphrasing that remark that ‘this wasn’t a NASA press release’ … NASA might not have done the work, but, it DID sponsor the work & did provide the press release; the NASA press release for this is at:

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/17jun_jetstream.htm?list1065474

Also, Stanford’s Dr. Leif Svaalgard (an eminently qualified ’solar scientist’) addressed this specific press release, and he didn’t mince words, at (scroll down or search to the first “Leif” reference):

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/17/solar-cycle-24-lack-of-sunspots-caused-by-sluggish-solar-jet-stream-returning-soon/#more-8598

He comments regularly at that site to inject some objective science — and deserves credit for restricting his comments to the subject for which he’s most qualified.

I just wished our “Bad Astronomer” picked up on what that release was really about and gave it the proper credit due, and no more….

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]]> By: JustPassingThru http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/17/here-comes-the-sunspot/comment-page-1/#comment-194150 JustPassingThru Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:41:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/17/here-comes-the-sunspot/#comment-194150 nevermind nevermind

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