Sun's Wind Is Lowest Ever Recorded

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Sun's Wind Is Lowest Ever Recorded

A wind of charged particles that stream constantly from the sun is at its lowest level ever recorded in the 50 years since spacecraft have made the measurement possible.

The Ulysses spacecraft observed the weak solar winds, the constant, high-speed stream of particles that races from the sun, during a quiet period in the sun's activity. The solar weather cycle affects Earth and other planets in the solar system.

"We know that the sun has been this cool before, this inactive before," said Nancy Crooker, a physicist at Boston University in Boston, Mass., during a NASA teleconference on Tuesday. "But that was prior to the Space Age, so we didn't have actual physical measurements until now."

I wonder how much this is taken into account when calculating Global Warming.

[candyman]

Sun's Wind Is Lowest Ever Recorded

I wonder how much this is taken into account when calculating Global Warming.

I am actually wondering how much this is ignored when it comes to global warming. That allong with alot of other things that are not taken into account. Cow farts...yeah they add to the problem too.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Well, it's directly related to the Solar Minimum, an affect there of. It means that the Sun is cooler... and lends credibility to the claims that the warming we experianced in the 90's was the "last bang" before the coming ice age.