Comments on: Shut Up and Drill!

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:59:41 +0000

There is a correlation between sunspot activity and the overall temperature here on Earth. We've not been looking at the correlation for long enough to draw any conclusions for sure, though.

That's a good article, Lori. Thank you.

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:47:56 +0000

Here it is…

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/0806…

It didn't say anything about global warming (nor cooling as I thought lack of sunspots might cause?). Was wondering if that is the case…besides making satelites go kooky, wouldn't sunspots cause some warming? Any relation?

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:54:45 +0000

I haven't. I get most of my space news from space.com though my RSS reader. I'll have to poke around and find the story. It looks interesting.

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:47:13 +0000

Well, I do try to mind my behavior….

Speaking of suns, did you see the article about the lack of sun spots being a little unusual? You usually seem to be all over the space/solar system stuff, thought you'd have a post on it.

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:38:41 +0000

Oh no. Not at all Lori. I'm thinking a second sun might arise in the sky before you'd say anything here that would offend me.

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:27:56 +0000

Okay. I was getting worried that I might have said something to offend. (Plus I didn't use spell check on this one where as I usually do…LOL I don't think I did too bad though.)

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:07:41 +0000

What did I say that put me in "moderation"?

[J - I'm not actually sure. I know that once in a while it'll send a comment from someone who's already approved and stick it into moderation. Maybe it wants to see if I'm checking my comments regularly or something. It's a quirk I've not yet been able to figure out.]

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:06:54 +0000

Did you see this today?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12130564225765930…

I am not opposed to drilling here. I don't see why we shouldn't. But I feel like it is a losing battle here with our pols who just can't help themselves when it comes to sending our "frenemies" anything they want with tax payer dollars. I've said all along that if we ever managed to reduce oil & gas consumption to the point that it starts to hurt the wallets of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait or anywhere else in the middle east, then the pols will just send them the money anyway. Apparently, they aren't even going to wait. All the while OPEC is sticking it to us & getting very rich doing so while we're going broke….but for some reason, we are going to give them nuclear power….when we can't even "give" ourselves nuclear power. Our leaders have to be on drugs…every last one of them.