The Cosmic Hand of Luck?

[Meem]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110614/ts_afp/usspacesun

WASHINGTON (AFP) – For years, scientists have been predicting the Sun would by around 2012 move into solar maximum, a period of intense flares and sunspot activity, but lately a curious calm has suggested quite the opposite.
According to three studies released in the United States on Tuesday, experts believe the familiar sunspot cycle may be shutting down and heading toward a pattern of inactivity unseen since the 17th century.
The signs include a missing jet stream, fading spots, and slower activity near the poles, said experts from the National Solar Observatory and Air Force Research Laboratory.
"This is highly unusual and unexpected," said Frank Hill, associate director of the NSO's Solar Synoptic Network, as the findings of the three studies were presented at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Solar Physics Division in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
"But the fact that three completely different views of the Sun point in the same direction is a powerful indicator that the sunspot cycle may be going into hibernation."
Solar activity tends to rise and fall every 11 years or so. The solar maximum and solar minimum each mark about half the interval of the magnetic pole reversal on the Sun, which happens every 22 years.
Hill said the current cycle, number 24, "may be the last normal one for some time and the next one, cycle 25, may not happen for some time.
"This is important because the solar cycle causes space weather which affects modern technology and may contribute to climate change," he told reporters.

So the question tugging away at my noodle is, could we be extremely lucky if this is the case and some of the effects of climate change are severely slowed or even canceled if we get our collective asses together? As far as my previous thoughts on climate change went, yes we are most certainly a part of it, and no there is nothing we can really do because nothing is being done fast enough. I had pretty much decided things would get bad, and it was something of a "cosmic freight-train" .... it's in motion with a full head of steam, not slowing down anytime soon. But it seems we luck out and the ... track at this point is on a hard incline?

Could this be used as, well see ... we can burn all we want, and when the cycle kicks back in again, we have the solar systems largest and most advanced human cooker? Is it misleading to think, that this ... if true will throw off many of the "by the decade/centuries end .... it will be this bad" projections ... and give us a chance to correct the problems within our systems to begin an actual recovery effort and not a cute little notion? I'd like to believe we are doing something better ... now, but the truth is we haven't done anything, and many countries are dialing-up industrial efforts. Many at the same time, saying yes, there's something to this ... does this give the window to prove it?

[Mikal]

I received a download from Earth Changes also connected to NASA, NOAA and NOS but it was a tad different from that report.
Mine said:

“Join me tonight along with George Noory and find out what will be disclosed officially tomorrow by joint forces of the entire US solar society which includes NASA, AAS, NOAA and just about every other scientific body that includes studies into our solar system and galaxy.
Then another report….
Note: This will be a brief overview of today’s “official” announcement regarding new information of solar cycle 24 and cycle 25.
The official announcement made today speaks of a surprising low solar cycle beginning at the end of cycle 24 and through cycle 25. This means cold-cold-cold weather is ahead. I do not think it will be such as the mini ice-age, but we many very well see ‘record’ low temperatures.
On a second issue: it speaks of a weakening magnetic field, and again surprising large amounts of charged particles coming from ‘coronal holes’ on the Sun. They made the point of saying-the monitoring of sunspot count, solar flares and cmes to be held and the deciding factors of cycle predictability missed the mark. With new instruments we can now see how the emission of (charged particles, solar winds, plasma clouds) coming from coronal holes play a much larger component in predicting space weather.
Earth Changes

What happened to Global Warming?? This guy works with all these agencies mentioned and speaks out in reports about space findings. Every time there was a solar flare—he sent me pictures. What about the Carbon Tax as part of the Global Warming concern, they want to hit everybody with? That idea rose from the concern of Global Warming. Did they find out we know about climate-gate, that it was proven and they all looked like fools.

I don’t know about these guys or whether they are to be trusted after climate-gate….how can we even be sure this is a natural earth cycle affecting our entire climate when all the major countries have weather-modification technology??
Regards Mikal