[Solar]

Originally Posted by Xringer

As you can see, the sun spot numbers were high, a few years BEFORE 2006.
Higher sun spot counts means we see 'normal' temperatures. (Warmer).
It was likely those prior warmer years that caused the 06 melting.
But, in 2006, the sun spot numbers were going down pretty low..
The kept dropping until 2009, before starting back up towards normal..

BUT, if our big peak was late in 2011, it's going to be more quite sun
and more cold winters in NE (like we had 2005 to 2011)..

Of course, my 'predictions' are only based on the sunspot influencing
the temperature in the NE..
Other factors like volcanoes and El-Ninos will also have their influence..



IPS - Solar Conditions - Monthly Sunspot Numbers

------------------------ SMOOTHED SUNSPOT NUMBER ---------------------------
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
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2000 113.0 116.9 120.0 120.9 119.0 118.8 119.8 118.7 116.3 114.5 112.7 112.1
2001 108.7 104.0 104.8 107.5 108.6 109.8 111.7 113.6 114.1 114.0 115.5 114.6
2002 113.5 114.6 113.3 110.5 108.8 106.2 102.7 98.7 94.6 90.5 85.3 82.1
2003 81.0 78.6 74.2 70.4 67.9 65.3 62.1 60.3 59.8 58.4 57.0 55.0
2004 52.1 49.4 47.2 45.6 43.9 41.7 40.2 39.3 37.6 35.9 35.4 35.2
2005 34.6 34.0 33.6 31.7 28.9 28.8 29.1 27.5 25.9 25.6 25.0 23.0
2006 20.8 18.7 17.4 17.1 17.4 16.4 15.3 15.6 15.6 14.2 12.7 12.1
2007 12.0 11.6 10.8 9.9 8.7 7.7 7.0 6.1 5.9 6.1 5.7 5.0
2008 4.2 3.6 3.3 3.3 3.5 3.2 2.7 2.6 2.2 1.8 1.7 1.7
2009 1.8 1.9 2.0 2.2 2.3 2.7 3.6 4.8 6.1 7.0 7.5 8.2
2010 9.2 10.6 12.3 13.9 15.4 16.3 16.7 17.4 19.6 23.2 26.5 28.9
2011 31.0 33.5 36.9 41.8 47.6 53.2 57.3 60.7e 63.4e 65.1e 67.7e 71.2e
2012 74.8e 77.9e

i was half asleep when I wrote that I think,I meant 2006 had the greatest ice melt and the temps now are way higher than they were then, so imagine how much the ice cap is going to melt this summer, probably 4 million square miles below anomaly baseline, which is slipping ever lower, and oh I love how these deniers use 10 year fluctuations in their anti-global warming beliefe ssystem, the average gets hotter and hotter, this must be compared to a 1900-1960 baseline in my opinion not perhaps 1900-2011 in comparison

this is just based on what I cant remeber off the top of my head where you started to see an increas in temps due to global warming in the 1950's on if you look at the data

before that ice cap data was basically a flat line on a graph then 1960 you see a sharp curve downwards from 16 million sq miles to3 or 4 maybe now this year.