The Sun is in a Funk

Anthony Watts has put together a long range record of geomagnetic activity.

The solar average geomagnetic planetary index, Ap is at its lowest level in 75 years, for the entirety of the record:

The sun is in a full blown funk, and your guess is as good as mine as to when it might pull out of it.

This might be very important.

Giving Gore the Gears - It is COLD

Harold Ambler has a great post that sums up some of the scientific arguments supporting a global cooling of the planet... Mr. Gore: Apology Accepted.

The ocean-atmosphere system is not a simple one that can be "ruled" by a trace atmospheric gas. It is a complex, chaotic system, largely modulated by solar effects (both direct and indirect), as shown by the Little Ice Age.

Here's an update from Canada - a supposed beneficiary of global warming. Residents of Saskatoon woke up to the coldest temperatures since 1966.

Check out his blog - Talking About the Weather