"May 24, 2009"
http://www.spaceweather.com/
"Daily Sun: 24 May 09 Yesterday's sunspot (number 1018) has faded
away. Sunspot number: 0"
"Far side of the Sun: This holographic image reveals no sunspots on
the far side of the sun."
"Planetary K-index
Now: Kp= 1 quiet"

"24 May 2009 16:31"
The visible face of the Sun is spotless:
http://mdisas.nascom.nasa.gov/gif_he...t_igram_fd.gif

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

The right panel shows the visible 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 spotless 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.

While you were sleeping: Wall St slides, BA loss
Monday, 25 May 2009, 8:22 am
Article: Businesswire


While you were sleeping: Wall St extends slide, British Airways Loss

May 25 – Shares on Wall Street extended their slide for a fourth day
on Friday in New York as bank shares dipped, earth-moving equipment
maker Caterpillar fell and General Motors tumbled.

The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, or VIX, rose 4.1%
to 32.63 on Friday, keeping what’s regarded as Wall Street’s fear
gauge above a key psychological level of 30.

GM slumped 26% to US$1.43, the biggest decline on the Dow Jones
Industrial Average, as the automaker edges closer to the June 1
deadline for probable bankruptcy. The company tapped a further loan
from the U.S. Treasury, a bigger-than-expected US$4 billion, bringing
total aid received to US$19.1 billion.

GM has concluded agreements with the Canadian Auto Workers union and
the United Auto Workers union that will allow it to slash costs and
pare back its obligations to retirement benefit funds. Bond holders
remain an unknown quantity for the automaker, having been given until
May 26 to respond to a GM offer to convert US$27 billion of debt into
equity.

Caterpillar dropped 3.5% to US$34.31. American Express fell 3.1% to US
$23.40 and Bank of America fell 3% to US$11.07.

The Dow fell 0.2% to 8277.32 and the Standard & Poor’s 500 slipped
0.2% to 887 and the Nasdaq Composite shed 0.2% to 1692.01, as Apple
Inc. slipped 1.4% to US$122.50 and Qualcomm Inc. dropped 0.9% to US
$41.31.

For the week, the three benchmark indexes managed modest gains of less
than 1%.

McDonald's Corp. climbed 2.5% to US$57.08, the biggest advance on the
Dow on Friday.

Exxon Mobil rose 0.6% to US$68.83 as crude oil held above US$61 a
barrel. The nearest U.S. crude oil futures contract rose 0.8% to US
$61.55 on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Gold miner Newmont Mining edged up 0.9% percent to US$47.04 as the
price of gold climbed above US$960 an ounce for the first time since
March.

Weighing on investors’ minds last week was Standard & Poor’s decision
to lower the outlook on the U.K.’s AAA credit rating as public debt
soared. The U.S. is seeking to fund a record budget deficit and the
U.K. move stoked concern the world’s largest economy may not be able
to hang onto its top rating.

Bill Gross, who manages the world’s biggest bond fund at Pacific
Investment Management Co., or Pimco, said such a move may “eventually”
happen to the U.S. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the U.S.
doesn’t believe the rating is under threat.

Moody’s Investors Service last week said it was comfortable with
keeping the U.S. rating at Aaa though the rating couldn’t be
guaranteed.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said in a speech to law
graduates that the U.S. economy “has too many fundamental strengths to
be kept down for long."

Angel Gurria, head of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development, said the world is “no longer in free fall.”

Gurria said it is “absolutely inexplicable that they want to cut the
rating of England and that there is talk they are going to cut the
rating of the United States.”

U.S. markets are closed this Monday for the long Memorial Day holiday
weekend.

The dollar index, which tracks the U.S. dollar against major
currencies, fell more than 3.5% last week.

The euro rose 0.7% to $1.3991 on Friday, and earlier reached $1.4009,
the highest since January. The euro advanced 1.2% to 132.62 yen. The
dollar strengthened 0.5% to 94.77 yen.

Demand for U.S. dollars will be tested this week as the U.S. Treasury
prepares to sell US$101 billion of Treasury notes in maturities of
two, five a seven years.

The U.K. economy shrank 1.9% in the first three months of the year,
the biggest quarterly slump since 1979.

Shares of British Airways fell 3.8% after posting a record loss and
cancelling its dividend. Chief Executive Willie Walsh said the airline
is in “the harshest trading environment we have ever faced and, with
no immediate improvement visible, market conditions remain
challenging.”

BA reported an annual operating loss of 220 million pounds, a
turnaround from the previous year’s record profit of 875 million
pounds.

The Dow Jones Stoxx 600 slipped 0.3% to 207.01 HSBC Holdings fell 0.7%
after saying the remainder of 2009 and probably much of 2010 “will be
challenging.”

The FTSE 100 rose 0.5% to 4365.29 in London, Germany’s DAX Index
climbed 0.4% to 4918.75 and France’s CAC 40 gained 0.3% to 3227.97.

The Europe’s Stoxx Index slipped 5.7% to 32.53.

The London interbank offered rate, or Libor, for borrowing in dollars
for three months rounded out its biggest weekly decline this year,
ending the week at 0.66%, a sign that optimism is growing that the
worst of the global slump is in the past.

Copper rose as stockpiles monitored by the London Metal Exchange fell
for the 12th straight day and figures showed China, the world’s
biggest consumer of the metal used to make wires and pipes, rose by 7%
last month.

Copper futures for July delivery rose 2.3% to US$2.0975 a pound on the
New York Mercantile Exchange.

(Businesswire)

On Sun, 24 May 2009 13:53:38 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

"May 24, 2009"
http://www.spaceweather.com/
"Daily Sun: 24 May 09 Yesterday's sunspot (number 1018) has faded
away. Sunspot number: 0"

snip..

Here is a partial list (2009) of aliases this person has used while
posting to sci.environment.

From: "A thoughtful mourner" mantrap@
From:
From:
From: "Barack Obama"
From:
From: "Dr Crypto"
From: "Edmund Fitzgerald" mantrap@
From: "Eric Swanson" mantrap@
From: "Ian St. John"
From: "kiloVolts" mantrap@
From: "kilovolts" mantrap@
From: "kiloVolts"
From: "Leon"
From: "Leon Trollski"
From: "Mike Vandeman"
From: "Mike Vandeman" mantrap@
From: "milliAmperes"
From: "Ms. 2"
From: "Ms. 2" mantrap@
From: "Nicovar Inc."
From:
From: "Ravocin"
From: "Sarah Palin"
From: "Sanity"
From:

and now, this Calgary, Canada Based Fossil Fuel Troll claims to be..

From:


This carbon addicted troll has stated in Message-ID:

"ENVIRONMENTALISM IS A HATE CRIME!"


Needless to say.. this person is mentally unbalanced..

====

This deluded fossil fuel troll is attempting to divert attention from
mankind's fossil fuel based CO2 emissions, which is altering the
Infrared characteristics of earth's atmosphere. Instead he attempts
to deceive by focusing attention on sun spot activity or lack thereof
(~cycling 11 years) which is correlated to minor variations (0.1%) in
stellar energy output.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solar-cycle-data.png


from http://www.spaceweather.com/

" BUSY SUN: The sun is still in the pits of a deep solar minimum.
Lately, however, attentive observers of solar activity have noticed a
certain "busy-ness" on the solar disk. Eric Roel sends this May 23rd
snapshot from his backyard observatory in Valle de Bravo, Mexico:"

http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod200...oel1_strip.jpg

"Captured in the photo are five dark magnetic filaments, an emerging
sunspot, and a fiery prominence dancing along the solar limb."