Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Increased solar activity

Keith Kiernan put me onto this recent news, so I researched it and selected the Space.com story from Aug 24. The 40 sec video comparing side by side outbursts  of the sun in Aug 2009 and Aug 2012 is impressive. This increased solar activity is more of a concern for hi-tech electronics on Earth, like GPS, satellite communications, the internet, power grids, etc., than it is for global warming.

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GREENLAND - Will probably be the focus of near term sea level rise

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