re: #855 Pythagoras

Actually, I wouldn’t say I disagree; I just don’t know. But the Onus Probandi is on the folks who want to change our lives. They don’t know either.

I’ll admit right here that I’m starting to get a bit scared about something else I just don’t know. What the heck is going on with the sun? NASA’s decreasing magnetism chart is kinda creepy.

[Link: science.nasa.gov…]

I was at a conference recently where a senior NASA scientist gave a seminar on Space Weather. I talked to her afterwords and, while she was very careful with her public statements, she was not sanguine about the future of climate with respect to solar changes. She clearly believed that the sun is not a minor player in climate change.

OT but when you say “South Beach,” which one?

I’m not too worried about the solar cycle. We might “miss” this solar max, but the guys I know in the field aren’t freaked about it. The nigling question I have is how the sun will “wake up”. Will it just resume the cycle, like after the Maunder minimum, or will it have some kind of minor fit with a boatload of big flares. That’s something I’d like to ask them for their opinions on, actually.

As for “which South Beach”, my answer is “there’s more than one?” I was thinking FL.