Nasa: Sun will 'flip upside down' within weeks

[Seriously]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...side-down-within-weeks-says-nasa-8942769.html

Interesting!

The sun is set to “flip upside down” within weeks as its magnetic field reverses polarity in an event that will send ripple effects throughout the solar system.

Although it may sound like a catastrophic occurrence, there’s no need to run for cover. The sun switches its polarity, flipping its magnetic north and south, once every eleven years through an internal mechanism about which little is understood.

The swap could however cause intergalactic weather fronts such as geomagnetic storms, which can interfere with satellites and cause radio blackouts.

 

[RiaX]

dun dun dun

 

[Pooky]

This type of stuff always sounds so scary. Makes you think just how small and insignificant we are.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Time to meet the sun on the flip side...

 

[Musiclover08]

That's insane stuff

 

[sand_man]

Yip, yip... For the non religious folk who cannot relate to the intangibles which some refer to as God, consider the sun the tangible God. Without the sun we would simply cease to exist...

 

[MKFrost]

So the sun will then rise in the west and set in the east....

 

[w1z4rd]

Well its magnetic poles will flip. This happens every 11 years. The actually sun does not flip, just its magentic poles.

 

[w1z4rd]

So the sun will then rise in the west and set in the east....

That will happen when the earths poles flip (geomagnetic reversal). This happens about every 250 000 years.

 

[Nicodeamus]

Well its magnetic poles will flip. This happens every 11 years. The actually sun does not flip, just its magentic poles.

The flip is also not so instantaneous.

 

[genetic]

Isn't the Earth's magnetic poles meant to flip sometime soon as well?

 

[w1z4rd]

Isn't the Earth's magnetic poles meant to flip sometime soon as well?

Yeah, it is seems to be in the process of starting.

But as pointed out:

The flip is also not so instantaneous.

 

[RiaX]

wait ... the sun also switches from sloar max and solar min every 11 years no ?

 

[Picard]

I hope it won't affect my Internet connectivity.

I'm still recovering from that Blizzard (Diablo 3) login debacle, earlier this week.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

I hope it won't affect my Internet connectivity.

I'm still recovering from that Blizzard (Diablo 3) login debacle, earlier this week.

It's only going to affect Sun Microsystems.

 

[ponder]

Cues Finladia by Sibelius

 

[Techne]

More interesting solar data here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/solar/

 

[bot]

More interesting solar data here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/solar/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Watts_(blogger)

View of climate change[edit]

Watts has expressed a skeptical view of anthropogenic CO2-driven global warming, believing the Sun, not man, is the driver of climatic change

Anthony Watts began his broadcast meteorology career in 1978 as an on-air meteorologist for WLFI-TV in Lafayette, Indiana and then joined KHSL-TV, a CBS affiliate based in Chico, California in 1987.[5][13] He stopped using his first name "Willard" to avoid confusion with NBC's The Today Show weatherman Willard Scott.[5] Watts temporarily resigned from KHSL in 2001 but was able to negotiate more personal time to use for his private business, ITWorks.[14] In 2002 he left KHSL to devote his full-time to ITWorks.[15] He returned to KHSL part-time in 2004.[16] Watts has been the chief meteorologist for KPAY-AM, a Fox News affiliate based in Chico, California since 2002.[10][17][18] In 2002, Watts won a Chico News & Review "Readers' Best Of" award for "Best Local Personality".[19]

Data about that blog you are linking to:

Patrick J. Michaels, climatologist and contributor to the IPCC First Assessment Report, described WUWT as part of a new "parallel universe" of emerging online publications, manned by serious scientists critical of world governments approach to climate change: "A parallel universe is assembling itself parallel to the IPCC. This universe has become very technical – very proficient at taking apart the U.N.'s findings."[20]

Watts's blog has been criticized for inaccuracy. The Guardian columnist George Monbiot described WUWT as "highly partisan and untrustworthy".[21] Leo Hickman, at The Guardian's Environment Blog, also criticized Watts's blog, stating that Watts "risks polluting his legitimate scepticism about the scientific processes and methodologies underpinning climate science with his accompanying politicised commentary."[22]"There are many credible sources of information, and they aren't blog sites run by weathermen like Anthony Watts", wrote David Suzuki.[23]

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[koeksGHT]

wooo its happeing!!

 

[bromster]

I was walking into work this morning. It was very hot and no wind to speak of. I noticed the heat of the sun on my arms slightly more than usual, so I looked up and did a Google search on the sun's distance.

149 million kilometers! Hectic.