Careful what you wish for, David Autumns... those sunspots dont'\s have anything good in store for what's living on Earths surface. 45-50 million km square of snow, now the abundance of that having shifted forwards, and whilst more, it's still melting under that moderate active sun, just outputting 0.076% less than in 2003... yes all sign in nature indicate decline...



Food for thought, but not to you.

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P.S. The news descended here reports of Northern Alaska, on the Arctic coast with 23C, and Resolute Point, 18.7C, right off Ellsemere, Canada... something gonna give. "Where have all the people gone?" someone asks... not waiting on you they wont!

Denialists playing a game of chess with the planet, clearly not understanding the rules that apply:


July Report by NOAA, early departure of snow pre-ludes declines of Arctice Sea Ice, and more...

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2011/080311.html






Does the world need more sunspot to help the Brits to survive another terrible winter?



Whatever happened to "Stiff upper lip", food for thought, but not for all!

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P.S. Don't let it rob you of your sleep!

More sunspots you want [though we know on the total TSI it means diddely squat difference and even after the Medieval Warming Optimum and the 70 years long Little Ice Age there was only 0.7 C differential? Want to only think of the UK? Well, the riots of the youths may be a signal that the future as prepared by their elders is not exactly as rosy as you'd like to think.

Meantime, more uncomfortable forest fires in Russia... already 1 million hectares lost: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/09/russia-forest-fires-burn-again

Now for the really bad news to spoil your evening: We told you several times about the negative effect on the nutritional value of wheat through the rise of CO2 in the atmosphere... plants used to live on 280 ppmv for hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years, tops 300 ppmv during interglacials... our cultivated plants were trained on that. Seems that rice is also not liking higher CO2... more disease and fungi susceptibility and we're reading of land unit drops of yields already being detected.

And in the news today that population is now thought not to stabilize on 9 billion by 2050, but the rapid growths continuing and at least 1 billion more to feed and house, and provide cars and smartphone and clean water and and and.

Maybe in some worlds the answer just sits in a top-hat



Food for thought, but not for all!

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P.S. Heat waves in China too, hundreds of thousands evacuated because of a typhoon [reads like landfall to me, or is that the semantics where islands don't count?], severe flooding in the Korean peninsula... really, David Autumns, do we need more UV rich sunspots to shine down on your garden? Sunspots are actually 6,000C cooler than the surrounding areas on the sun.

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P.P.S. The wheat crops in the US are failing too with this record record heatwave and drought. Interestingly, corn is grown for biofuel and wheat is fed to cow, for that bigger stake, under enhancement of some growth hormones. Bon appetit.

Just was reminded of something when I was young ... a top hat story: Howard Christmas Older [The Collectors, 1968]... Yes David Autumns, I'm a few years ''older'' than you and have been around and worked for 30 years at a [geo]science & research company... picture that! Maybe I know a few things more on the earth topic, the excitation of photons and CO2 and to me mundane things as magnetic resonance imaging, neutron lifetime decay... some more I could not share with you... stuff that has been in vaults since a certain weekend in 1986 when pointing more advanced spectrometers at the sky than any government agency had access to. We did that in our own time, at our own expense, just to verify if the stories checked ... unwanted science at the frontier locked away forever... of statistical insignificance we know now 25 years on.

Heed Thé, don't tread on areas you can only guess or you might be crossing onto that what Kruger and his mentor Dunning made a study off... C02 does it predominantly at 15um and the higher up it is, the nastier the effect.

Food for thought, but is it that to you?

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P.S. it took *only* 12 years to get from 6 billion to 7 billion humans. My parents remember times when it was just not a third when they were young: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population and a World War ruled for half a decade because... They think the world's gone mad, crack-head potty, burning the one place from which there's no escape.

P.P.S. Do you know when <a href="http://www.sott.net/articles/show/229639-The-...ying">noctilucent clouds</a> started appearing? You can see them when not shut eye at more northern quarters, but the phenomena is gradually showing more and more southern... why would that be? On the suggestion, comet dust will always have been there... much more probable, the upper atmosphere cools, because of that thickening blanket below, due you know why... told many times.

While the country was focused on the debt extension deal being hashed out between Congress and the White House, President Obama reached an agreement with the auto industry to raise what are called Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. These are laws that mandate the average mileage that a fleet of cars sold by a particular manufacturer must achieve. Under these new rules, the fleet standard would increase to 54.5 mpg by 2025. Just for comparison, the 2011 2-passenger Smart Cart is advertising 41 mpg on the highway. The problem is that if automobiles are going to meet this standard, the auto companies will have to seriously downsize their fleet. The reason why the Smart Car even gets the mileage it does is because it’s so small and light, as was noted in this Washington Examiner Editorial: ------------ http://lockerroom.johnlocke.org/2011/08/04/ob...ion-trades-blood-for-oil/