SOLAR LUMINOSITY CYCLES

As I sit here looking out my office window into my daughter's vegetable garden, I am looking through old garden records of mine. It seems the last time that here in the Pacific Northwest that I had snow sticking to the ground in mid to late April at 90 to 110 feet above sea level was around thirty years ago. It is most definitely a beautiful white color in the garden and (oh, darn...) it looks like I might just put off mowing my 1 acre lawn.

It does appear as if motocycle riding is out of the picture today, which is a bummer, as my wife took the day off from work so we could ride through the Skagit valley tulip fields. The last time that I remember snow sticking in April at sea level was while I was overseas in Scandinavia, but that is another story for another day.

It seems that when looking at international weather patterns, that most of the temperate zone has been cooling for the last two years. This appears to coincide with the luminosity cycles of the sun. (not to be confused with sunspot cycles) Our main source of Vitamin D and warmth seems to be following it's consistent 30 year pattern of cooling and warming. The bright cycle of the sun has ended two years ago, and now it is dimming ever so slightly, again. The polar ice caps on Earth and Mars seem to be done receding and are starting the cyclic increasing again. I would suspect that other heavenly objects throughout our solar system are probably experiencing similar effects.

As always, never take my word for fact, and look into NASA's research, Ames, NOAA and other's research. Even look into local professor Dr. Easterbrook's research and Dr. Flora's coral reef research. There are some very telling bits of evidence that suggest that Big Yellow Thing in the sky probably has more of an affect on the Earth's cooling and warming cycles than all of the burned Styrofoam cups in redneck folks' campfires combined. and possibly more than any of our industrial revolution and post industrial revolution activities. (I'm not saying that pollution is a good thing, we need clean air and water and soil to survive, thrive and multiply on this little spinning rock) But the amount of CO2 increasing in the atmosphere is an insignificant amount as it seems that it has only increased some .003% since the industrial revolution and the biggest increases in CO2 seem to coincide with Krakatoa, Pinatubo, St. Helens, etc.

Anyway, I'm going to go start a fire in my woodstove, and enjoy the day. I hope you do too.