Weather Banter - Day ?G?*10^3 - The Sun hibernates

"April 28, 2009"
http://www.spaceweather.com/
"Daily Sun: 28 Apr 09 Sunspot number: 0"
"Far side of the Sun: This holographic image reveals no large sunspots on
the far side of the sun."
"Planetary K-index
Now: Kp= 1 quiet"

Please visit:
http://blog.nj.com/southjersey_impac...SolarCycle.jpg

The right panel shows the face of the Sun as it looked on a good day during
the late Modern Warm Period. Sunspots are the apparent size of craters on
the moon. The left panel shows a Sun as it appears today. Please write to Al
Gore so that Al knows that the Sun is not living up to his religious
expectations. Al Gore is a divinity school dropout. George Carlin had a
better grasp of the true nature of God's creation, than does Al Gore.

Please visit:
http://www.co-intelligence.org/newsl...es/sun-etc.jpg
which shows the relative sizes of the Sun and planets. Compared to the Sun,
Jupiter is the size of a pea, earth is the size of a grain of sand.
World Bank demands poverty action

The head of the World Bank has warned of a "human catastrophe" in the
world's poorest countries unless more is done to tackle the global economic
crisis.

Speaking at the end of the World Bank's spring meeting, Robert Zoellick also
called on rich nations to do more to help tackle global poverty.

He said the crisis meant targets on tackling poverty in the poorest
countries were unlikely to be met.

The World Bank says an extra 53 million people are at risk of extreme
poverty.

'Accelerate aid'

"There is a widespread recognition that the world faces an unprecedented
economic crisis, poor people could suffer the most and that we must continue
to act in real time to prevent a human catastrophe," said Mr Zoellick.

He added that no-one yet knew how long the global recession would last.

In a joint statement, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
said they had urged "all donors to accelerate delivery of commitments to
increase aid, and for us all to consider going beyond existing commitments".

World Bank managing director, and former Nigerian Finance Minister, Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala, said there was now a real crisis in Africa as a result of the
worldwide recession.

She said that as a result of falling demand for commodities and other
exports, government budgets were falling short across the continent.

"This means that [governments] cannot pay teachers or health workers, and we
are hearing of people who can't eat three square meals a day," she said.

Her comments came after the IMF said on Sunday that it would consider a
request from Tanzania for additional financial support to help it cope with
the impact of the global financial crisis.

How much Tanzania has asked for has not been announced.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/h...ss/8019942.stm

Published: 2009/04/27 09:10:38 GMT