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[dunton joe]

sorry, what is it with all the recent hype of solar flares? aren't they proportional to sun spot cycles in which we are presently in a low activety one? or am i missing something?
(i'm not accusing our current host of hype, just msm news including dr michio cookoo (i love his name almost as much as george moonbat and more than bernie madeoff))

[Jiminy Cricket]

I am just humbled...

[cmdocker]

These look suspiciously anthropogenic, too much sunbathing perhaps?

[Frosty]

it's the correlation to earthquakes and volcanic activity that's piqued my interest, year without a summer n all that.

[Sparks]

The particles are protons fired into space by sun spots, which appear in regular 11 year cycles. The next big cycle is due to take place in 2012.

Aurora displays in the UK.by photographer, Jim Henderson,
Jim became involved in photography in the 1980s. He left a stable and lucrative job in the oil industry in favour of photography and his growing interest in the night sky.
he is the custodian of the aurora detection devices at the Met Office and Lancaster University both use to predict the likelihood of an aurora phenomenon becoming visible.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/8347764/The-northern-lights-in-the-UK-photographed-by-aurora-borealis-expert-Jim-Henderson.html

[dunton joe]

@sparks: you mean cycle of observed sun spots peaks in 2012? cos it looks like 2013 here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/02/09/nasa-revises-the-sunspot-prediction-down-again/

[Sparks]

@ dunton joe

I know, I read that article, I posted the information that accompanied the Aurora photographs by Jim Henderson.

Are you suggesting that a Custodian of the aurora detection devices at the Met Office could get sun spot cycle predictions wrong?
/sarc

[dunton joe]

@sparks.
o. interesting. i heard that b4 from people like dr cuckoo. that the 11year cycle is going to 'happen' in 2012.