{"id":677,"date":"2009-04-02T06:35:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T06:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=677"},"modified":"2009-04-02T06:35:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T06:35:02","slug":"im_not_a_scientist_but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Not A Scientist, But&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2009\/01apr_deepsolarminimum.htm\">NASA<\/a>&nbsp;has released information on solar activity during the year 2008.&nbsp; Just for the record, nothing we&nbsp;as people do on earth effects solar activity.&nbsp; The bottom line on this is that the sun is emitting less heat than it has for a while.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2009\/images\/deepsolarminimum\/irradiance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"324\" alt=\"see caption\" src=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2009\/images\/deepsolarminimum\/irradiance_strip.jpg\" width=\"500\" border=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We reached our peak of sun heat emissions in 2001 and have been going down ever since.&nbsp; The article pointed out that 2008 was one of the quietest years for sun activity (sunspots, etc.) since we have measured.&nbsp; According to the article:<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><em>&#8220;There were no sunspots observed on 266 of the year&#8217;s 366 days (73%). To find a year with more blank suns, you have to go all the way back to 1913, which had 311 spotless days: <\/em><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2009\/images\/deepsolarminimum\/centuryplot_gif2.gif\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><em>plot<\/em><\/font><\/a><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><em>. Prompted by these numbers, some observers suggested that the solar cycle had hit bottom in 2008.&#8221;<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">As I said in the heading for the article, I am not a scientist, but it seems to me that if we are going to study climate change, it might be wise to start with solar activity.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&nbsp;has released information on solar activity during the year 2008.&nbsp; Just for the record, nothing we&nbsp;as people do on earth effects solar activity.&nbsp; The bottom line on this is that the sun is emitting less heat than it has for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=677\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}