yes phil, that was actually just reported on, on the osgood file radio commetary program, he even mentioned how the mainstream media wont even touch the report from astronomers for broadcast because it TOTALLY refutes the far left narrowminded liberal hysteria of GW and thats a big NO NO....the sun is presently the DIMIST IT HAS BEEN in 100 years...its normally in a certain 11 year cycle of radio wave output and solar flares and astro people are BAFFLED by why its not acting the way it normally does, and theyre saying that if it keeps to its new pattern of activity (or lack there of) it will put us into a mini ice age...i just copied it from my e mail...here is the word for word transcript from the radio broadcast
The Osgood File. I'm Charles Osgood.
>
> I know you've already got a lot to worry about as it is, but something
> rather odd is going on --- on the Sun.
>
> The Sun normally undergoes an 11-year cycle of activity --- and last year,
> it was supposed to have heated up --- and, at its peak, would have a
> tumultuous boiling atmosphere, spitting out flares and huge chunks of
> super-hot gas.
>
> Instead, it hit a 50-year low in solar wind pressure, a 55-year low in radio
> emissions, and a 100-year low in sunspot activity. Right now, the sun is the
> dimmest it's been in nearly a century.
>
> Did you know that? It's true. Astronomers are baffled by it, but has the
> press covered the story? Hardly at all. Is the government doing anything
> about it? No, it's not even in the Obama budget or any Congressional
> earmarks.
>
> But, sooner or later, I bet it will turn out to be our fault --- yours and
> mine. And in Washington, where everything is political, they'll note that it
> began before President Obama took office --- perhaps "another example of the
> failed policies of the Bush Administration."
>
> At an upcoming meeting of astronomers in the United Kingdom, they'll be
> studying new pictures of the Sun taken from space, looking for any hint that
> the Sun will start heating up again and acting up again, the way it's
> supposed to. But there is no sign of that, so far.
>
> In the mid-17th Century, there was a quiet spell on the Sun --- known as the
> Maunder Minimum --- which lasted 70 years, and led to a mini-Ice Age here on
> Earth.
>
> Right now, global warming is a given to so many, it raises the question:
> Could another minimum activity period on the Sun counteract, in any way, the
> effects of global warming?
>
> Hush, child! You're not even supposed to suggest that. The only thing that
> can change global warming is if we human beings --- we Americans, especially
> --- completely change our ways and our way of life.
>
> I'm sure you'll be hearing more about this solar dimming business, now that
> the story is out. Remember, you heard it here first...
>
