Re: Records

On 03 Nov 2021, Rudy Canoza <[email protected]> posted some
news:[email protected]: 

> In 2021 (*to date* — Nov. 03), a total of *770* all-time high
> temperature records have been broken in the United States, versus only
> 222 all time low. 
> 
> https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/records
> 
>    High    High    Low     Low
>   _max_   _min_   _max_   _min_
> 
>    426     344     114     108
> 
> Temperatures are rising due to global warming.  This is in
> dispute. 

Deer Rudy, you and climatists are are stupid.

The sun is getting stormier, and it’ll peak just in time for a total solar 
eclipse

The next solar cycle is ramping up, offering spacecraft an unprecedented 
chance to unravel the sun’s mysteries while giving people on Earth a 
stunning show.

A strong solar cycle might spell trouble for Earth. Sunspots can unleash 
massive explosions called solar flares, and those flares sometimes sling 
volleys of radiation and charged particles into space called coronal mass 
ejections, or CMEs. If a sufficiently strong CME collides with Earth, it 
could cause a damaging geomagnetic storm.

Perhaps the best-known of these storms occurred in 1859, during solar 
cycle 10. Known as the Carrington Event, it disrupted telegraphs and 
shocked operators at the controls, and it lit the skies with auroras that 
were visible as far south as the Caribbean. Today, a storm of this 
magnitude would be devastating. It could crash power grids, knock out 
satellites, endanger astronauts in orbit, change planned flight routes, 
and render Earth’s upper atmosphere impenetrable to ground-based 
communication systems.

Weaker eruptions are also dangerous. On March 12, 1989, the entire 
province of Quebec lost power when a CME a fraction the strength of the 
Carrington event smashed into Earth and fried the power grid, trapping 
people in elevators and tunnels. In orbit, multiple satellites temporarily 
went dark or had trouble maintaining altitude, and sensors tripped aboard 
the space shuttle Discovery—which had launched earlier that day.

The influence of solar activity on Earth is called space weather, and for 
years, scientists have been fine-tuning how to anticipate when the sun 
might turn hazardous. Better forecasts for solar storms mean better 
opportunities for protecting vulnerable infrastructure, similar to how 
weather forecasts allow people in a storm’s path to prepare for its 
onslaught.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-sun-is-getting-
stormier-just-in-time-for-a-total-solar-eclipse