[extropy-chat] Hurricanes and global warming

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Hal Finney <hal at finney.org> wrote:
> 
> I don't see any reason to expect this.  Looking at the sunspot chart,
> the last peak was a little lower the the previous two, but the one
> before
> those had been an even bigger drop.  There is quite a bit of
> fluctuation
> from cycle to cycle, but nothing in the pattern strongly suggests
> that the next few cycles will be extremely low.

Solar astronomers seem to believe that the scheduling of the peaks and
their intensity tends to predict the next peak. Early peaks tend to be
lower, etc. They are predicting a 2010 peak, only four years after the
start of the next cycle in 2006, which they predict will be lower than
the most recent peak.

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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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