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The birds are dying in the windmills.
1,000 of acres of solar panels were destroyed by hail storm in Texas.

I'm all for solar, but they're not funding my labs to design something better.
They have idiots working on those projects.
 
jasperkent said:
I do know that it's gotten hotter here in TN over the last 10 to 20 years because I've lived here my whole life. Winters are milder with fewer days below freezing, and summers are hotter with more days above 100F.
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I'm just outside London, been here 20 years that I remember accurately. What I will say is, that the weather particularly over the past decade has been weird.. but this is not evidence of anything given the timeframe is so small. From older people I have spoken to, they tend to say the same thing.. it hasn't gotten hotter, or colder, our weather has always been a little dash of Artic, a dash of tornado alley, a dash of mediterrean, and a big dollop of dingy grey shite.

The real change has been the cloud cover, or rather the increase in this persistently hazy amorphous 'cloud'.

The only real anomaly was 2020, when it was wall to wall sunshine from April to September, with clear skies. That never happens in the UK:
Met Office - Spring 2020
  • All UK countries recorded their sunniest spring on record - records back to 1919.
  • We saw more sunshine this spring than we see in most summers, with only three summer seasons being sunnier (1976, 1995, and 1989).
  • It was the eighth warmest spring on record for the UK, with both England and Wales having their fifth warmest spring on record
  • It was the sunniest April on record for the UK as a whole.
  • It was the fifth driest spring for the UK overall, but some counties in north east England and eastern Scotland recorded their driest spring since rainfall records began in 1862.
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Now, what is bizarre.. is that the simple explanation would be the lack of air travel due to covid. We saw the same thing post 9/11 in the USA. But yet, the media has made no big deal out of it. In fact most people I speak to have no idea 2020 was that Sunny (though they remember it being good), because the media really didn't play it up. You would think they would play it up, because if aeroplanes affect the weather that much, it feeds the green agenda nicely.
 
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I'm just outside London, been here 20 years that I remember accurately. What I will say is, that the weather particularly over the past decade has been weird.. but this is not evidence of anything given the timeframe is so small. From older people I have spoken to, they tend to say the same thing.. it hasn't gotten hotter, or colder, our weather has always been a little dash of Artic, a dash of tornado alley, a dash of mediterrean, and a big dollop of dingy grey shite.

The real change has been the cloud cover, or rather the increase in this persistently hazy amorphous 'cloud'.

The only real anomaly was 2020, when it was wall to wall sunshine from April to September, with clear skies. That never happens in the UK:
Met Office - Spring 2020

Now, what is bizarre.. is that the simple explanation would be the lack of air travel due to covid. We saw the same thing post 9/11 in the USA. But yet, the media has made no big deal out of it. In fact most people I speak to have no idea 2020 was that Sunny (though they remember it being good), because the media really didn't play it up. You would think they would play it up, because if aeroplanes affect the weather that much, it feeds the green agenda nicely.
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We are approaching solar max.

And of course that big old fiery ball in the sky has no effect on earth's weather and climate, right?
 
ions said:
I did propose my solar project to various petroleum companies. Owens Corning too. No buyers.
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I made similar proposals in the 1970's with zero results.
And I am a E E with experience in R & D in the Military previous to that proposal.
Zero results.

Don't feel bad, they really just don't care ;)
 
Cheshire_Kat said:
We are approaching solar max.

And of course that big old fiery ball in the sky has no effect on earth's weather and climate, right?
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Absolutely. I personally believe its affect on Earth is understated, in particular the electrical connection which we don't understand. Look at Saturn's permanent hexagon shaped storm at one of its poles, that's clearly an electrical effect but the academics still cling to turbulence explanations. They denied upper atmospheric lightning until fairly recently too, until pilots finally started getting photos of it.
 
I feel like research grants go to a select few no matter what they write about. Playing favorites to the Nobel laureates instead of anything out necessity. A lot of, It can be done.

Maybe my graduate research project was mostly it can be done. It’s still too early to tell. We lost a lot of good years. @Cheshire_Kat
 
ions said:
I feel like research grants go to a select few no matter what they write about. Playing favorites to the Nobel laureates instead of anything out necessity. A lot of, It can be done.

Maybe my graduate research project was mostly it can be done. It’s still too early to tell. We lost a lot of good years. @Cheshire_Kat
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Grant funding is very risk averse, partially due to the extremely limited funds. Perhaps if the administrations were to actually fund research sufficiently, the grant agencies would be a bit more lenient rather than just going with those who have the most solid track records
 
superenforcer said:
What does the black screen mean? I’m blocked from seeing, just curious as to what might cause that.

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Just Google "solar max" or "solar cycles" and there should be a lot of info.

Basically, the sun has it's own cycles and we are reaching a time of maximum solar output. It's nothing new and not catastrophic. It's been happening for millions of years, but not many think about on a regular basis.
 
Cheshire_Kat said:
Just Google "solar max" or "solar cycles" and there should be a lot of info.

Basically, the sun has it's own cycles and we are reaching a time of maximum solar output. It's nothing new and not catastrophic. It's been happening for millions of years, but not many think about on a regular basis.
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Thank you!
 
someguyontheinternet said:
Its an 11 year cycle which means that most people experience multiple maxima through their life. That being said it is still hotter on earth than previous maxima
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Yes, and the solar storms which accompany this cycle are stronger than the last few cycles. I do remember one that occurred in the 1950's that was particularly strong. Blazing hot temps and strong radio and TV interference. I used to tune in my short wave radio and listen to the storms raging through the Van Allen radiation belt.

:bolt: :bolt: :bolt: :bolt: :bolt: :bolt:
 
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