Trouble with our sun?

[righteousdude2]

Sorry I can't copy and paste the link, but the sun is now being very quiet, and astronomers are somewhat concerned. Well should we be, or is this what Jesus meant when He told us we'd see signs in the heavens, or did he mean signs and wonders?

If anyone can post the link on the latest concerns with our star, the sun, please paste it for me, and I will be grateful.

 

[InTheLight]

Nothing is happening with the sun right now so we should consider that to be a "sign in the heavens"? Sheesh...

 

[just-want-peace]

Nothing is happening with the sun right now so we should consider that to be a "sign in the heavens"? Sheesh...

Really?? Meaning 'zactly WHAT????

 

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

Here's a story regarding the concern:

Los Angeles Times: Suddenly, the sun is eerily quiet -- Where did the sunspots go?http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-the-sun-goes-eerily-quiet-20140718-story.htmlhttp://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-the-sun-goes-eerily-quiet-20140718-story.html

Our sun has gone quiet. Almost too quiet.

A few weeks ago it was teeming with sunspots, as you would expect since we are supposed to be in the middle of solar maximum -- the time in the sun's 11-year cycle when it is the most active.

But now, there is hardly a sunspot in sight. If you look closely at the image above, taken on July 18 by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, you will see a tiny smidge of brown just right of center where a small sunspot appears to be developing. But just one day before, there truly was nothing. It was a totally spotless day.

So what's going on here? Is the "All Quiet Event" as solar physicist Tony Phillips dubbed it, a big deal or not?

"It is weird, but it's not super weird," said Phillips, who writes about solar activity on his website SpaceWeather.com. "To have a spotless day during solar maximum is odd, but then again, this solar maximum we are in has been very wimpy."

In searching for this story, I came across one idiot who wondered if "global warming" was causing the Sun to go inactive.

Apparently, NASA isn't concerned. Maybe that's a good reason we should be. :laugh:

 

[church mouse guy]

The lack of solar activity is related to the cold winter wherein the Great Lakes were about 90% frozen for the first time in a few years.

 

[preachinjesus]

Oy vey, trying to link a season of solar quiet with eschatology. Goodness.

 

[InTheLight]

Oy vey, trying to link a season of solar quiet with eschatology. Goodness.

Indeed.

The Bible:
Matt 24:29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken." --Jesus

RighteousDude2:
...the sun is now being very quiet, is this what Jesus meant when He told us we'd see signs in the heavens?

 

[TCassidy]

The lack of solar activity is related to the cold winter wherein the Great Lakes were about 90% frozen for the first time in a few years.

Uh, no. The extreme cold experienced in the mid-west last winter, and the cool summer is due to a stagnant stationary front over the eastern Pacific ocean. This front forces the Pacific air mass that normally moves east over northern California, Oregon, and Washington state to move farther north into the arctic. This incursion into the arctic has forced the polar vortex southward into central Canada and the mid-west of the US. This has brought very cold weather to the mid-west and cooler than normal temperatures this summer. The front has nothing to do with the downturn in solar activity which is now over 3 years old. Post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.

 

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

Uh, no. The extreme cold experienced in the mid-west last winter, and the cool summer is due to a stagnant stationary front over the eastern Pacific ocean.

And why do you suppose that upper level high -- not a stationary front -- is stagnant? High- and low-pressure systems don't have ability to just sit down and not move. There has to be a reason. And the reason is, the lack of solar activity has slowed down the weather patterns around the world.

Any eighth grader who's had his/her meteorology section in science class knows that.