Global Warming and Energy

While there's been lots of hype about solar maximum of solar cycle 24 happening now, it's still way below expectations.

""I would say it is the weakest in 200 years," said David Hathaway, head of the solar physics group at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
Researchers are puzzled. They can't tell if the lull is temporary or the onset of a decades-long decline, which might ease global warming a bit by altering the sun's brightness or the wavelengths of its light."

More establishment gobbledygook.

"To complicate the riddle, the sun also is undergoing one of its oddest magnetic reversals on record.
Normally, the sun's magnetic north and south poles change polarity every 11 years or so. During a magnetic-field reversal, the sun's polar magnetic fields weaken, drop to zero, and then emerge again with the opposite polarity. As far as scientists know, the magnetic shift is notable only because it signals the peak of the solar maximum, said Douglas Biesecker at NASA's Space Environment Center.
But in this cycle, the sun's magnetic poles are out of sync, solar scientists said. The sun's north magnetic pole reversed polarity more than a year ago, so it has the same polarity as the south pole."

I wonder if that means the sun is building up or losing net charge, changing its differential with the galaxy.

Deconstructing hype on the so-called super-typhoon. More hype.

The lies and agenda behind the founding of the IPCC and how it demonized CO2 through faulty information.