Dave wrote:
Art Unwin wrote:


Remember that it is predicted that our world will flip with respect to
the poles
thus the zenith of sun spots will alter by eleven years. Best to learn
to swim before that happens. Last thing I heard was the magnetic pole
was in Siberia and still going away. Hopefully there is
still time for the poles to change their minds and return.
Art
Art

The Earth's magnetic field does not affect when sunspots happen.
Actually the northern magnetic pole is in Eastern Northern Canada and
progressing slowly eastward.

The current sunspot cycle is merely slow in appearing. The 11 year cycle
is only an average. Some cycles are less than 11 yrs and some are longer.

Dave

On Jan 14, 8:47*pm, "David G. Nagel"
wrote:
Dave wrote:
Art Unwin wrote:

Remember that it is predicted that our world will flip with respect to
the poles
thus the zenith of sun spots will alter by eleven years. Best to learn
to swim before that happens. Last thing I heard was the magnetic pole
was in Siberia and still going away. Hopefully there is
still time for the poles to change their minds and return.
Art
Art

The Earth's magnetic field does not affect when sunspots happen.

Actually the northern magnetic pole is in Eastern Northern Canada and
progressing slowly eastward.

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Outch How can I be so wrong? I will blame it on my poor memory.
I thought its position was in the area of the Berring sea straights
heading for
Siberia. Could it be Mrs Palin who said she could see it from her
house in Alaska
which is America's NORTH WEST coast. If you feel it is positioned
between Canada and Greenland more power to you !
Art

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The current sunspot cycle is merely slow in appearing. The 11 year cycle
is only an average. Some cycles are less than 11 yrs and some are longer.

Dave

Art Unwin wrote:
Outch How can I be so wrong? I will blame it on my poor memory.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/Y2...neticfield.htm

Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to see what a pole
reversal in progress might look like.

http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/geomag/nmp/northpole_e.php

"The North Magnetic Pole is slowly drifting across the Canadian
Arctic. ... The most recent survey, completed in May, 2001,
determined an updated position for the Pole and established that
it is moving approximately northwest at 40 km per year."
--
73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

Art Unwin wrote:
On Jan 14, 8:47 pm, "David G. Nagel"
wrote:
Dave wrote:
Art Unwin wrote:
Remember that it is predicted that our world will flip with respect to
the poles
thus the zenith of sun spots will alter by eleven years. Best to learn
to swim before that happens. Last thing I heard was the magnetic pole
was in Siberia and still going away. Hopefully there is
still time for the poles to change their minds and return.
Art
Art
The Earth's magnetic field does not affect when sunspots happen.
Actually the northern magnetic pole is in Eastern Northern Canada and
progressing slowly eastward.

.................................................. ..

Outch How can I be so wrong? I will blame it on my poor memory.
I thought its position was in the area of the Berring sea straights
heading for
Siberia. Could it be Mrs Palin who said she could see it from her
house in Alaska
which is America's NORTH WEST coast. If you feel it is positioned
between Canada and Greenland more power to you !
Art

.................................................. .....
The current sunspot cycle is merely slow in appearing. The 11 year cycle
is only an average. Some cycles are less than 11 yrs and some are longer.

Dave


Hay Art. They say the memory is the second thing to go, I forget what is
first. HI HI

The following is from Wikipedia:
In 2001, the North Magnetic Pole was determined by the Geological Survey
of Canada to lie near Ellesmere Island in northern Canada at [show
location on an interactive map] 81°18?N 110°48?W? / ?81.3, -110.8?
(Magnetic North Pole 2001). It was estimated to be at [show location on
an interactive map] 82°42?N 114°24?W? / ?82.7, -114.4? (Magnetic North
Pole 2005 est) in 2005.

There is a URL link in the actual Wiki listing showing where the mag
poles are located. Please refer to Wiki for this information.
I hope you have a Happy New Year.

Dave

"David G. Nagel" wrote in message
...


The current sunspot cycle is merely slow in appearing. The 11 year cycle
is only an average. Some cycles are less than 11 yrs and some are longer.

Cycle 23 was strongly double-peaked. If you view a graph of several
single-peak cycles overlaid with 23, then move the second half of 23 to the
left, so its second peak matches the peaks of the other cycles, the falloff
of 23 looks more nearly typical.

Could it be that Cycle 23's notable second peak has made it last longer? I
hope that's it. Or maybe Cycle 24 is just the beginning of the Unwin
Minimum.

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:47:06 -0600, "David G. Nagel"
wrote:

Dave wrote:
Art Unwin wrote:


Remember that it is predicted that our world will flip with respect to
the poles
thus the zenith of sun spots will alter by eleven years. Best to learn
to swim before that happens. Last thing I heard was the magnetic pole
was in Siberia and still going away. Hopefully there is
still time for the poles to change their minds and return.
Art
Art

The Earth's magnetic field does not affect when sunspots happen.
Actually the northern magnetic pole is in Eastern Northern Canada and
progressing slowly eastward.

The current sunspot cycle is merely slow in appearing. The 11 year cycle
is only an average. Some cycles are less than 11 yrs and some are longer.

Dave

Actually there are a lot of solar cycles, 7 year, 11 year, 13 year,
and more. Not all have much to do with sunspots though. One is
correlated with human heartbeat for no reasonable reason.

A planetary magnetic minimum may produce much higher ionization in the
ionosphere. No bets on any of this, just wild speculation.