SEARCH BLOG: GLOBAL WARMINGThis information from SpaceWeather.com:SPACE WEATHER
Current conditions Solar wind
speed: 334.9 km/sec
density: 1.0 protons/cm3
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Updated: Today at 1936 UT X-ray Solar Flares
6-hr max: A0 1935 UT May21
24-hr: A0 1215 UT May21
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Updated: Today at: 1935 UT 
Daily Sun: 21 May 09 
The sun is blank--no sunspots. Credit: SOHO/MDI
Sunspot number: 0
What is the sunspot number?
Updated 21 May 2009
Spotless Days
Current Stretch: 1 days
2009 total: 115 days (83%)
Since 2004: 626 days
Typical Solar Min: 485 days
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Updated 21 May 2009
Far side of the Sun: 
This holographic image reveals no sunspots on the far side of the sun. Image credit: SOHO/MDI
NOAA appears to have given up crying wolf about extreme weather.
(CNN) -- Forecasters predict the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season will be "near-normal," with four to seven hurricanes likely, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday, less than two weeks before the season begins.
The science is settled: earth has been cooling for a decade, the sun is abnormally quiet, and no extreme high temperature records are being set [see more at
Icecap soon].
Therefore, now is the time for the government to enact onerous legislation around the misconception that man-made CO2 is driving climate change. Now is the time to create economic hardship and energy uncertainty. Now is the time to create expanded bureaucracies to mismanage the marketplace. Then when the noticeable effects of normal climate change... the cooling side... occur, the government can take credit for saving us from ourselves and justify why colder areas have such high heating bills...
