Topband: Maunder References

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

I would note that some of that material got scalding negatives in
commentary, bemoaning nonexistent references to data, etc, one commentor
calling an article a "puff" piece.

Stuff from CERN is one thing. Some of the other, well, I could write stuff
using my ear wax and put it out there. We need to remain vigilant that the
internet really is a wild west jungle of everything from keen insight to
absolute rubbish. It used to be "caveat emptor" was the great caution. Now
we have "caveat lector", "Let the reader beware".

Used to just be worried about someone gonna sucker our pocket book. Now we
gotta worry about someone gonna sucker our mind. Maybe these days caveat
lector is the greater concern. Possibly because we spend, support policy
and vote based on our mind.

One can find just about anything in the Blogosphere, both sides of any
issue, to extremes. Want something on sugary drinks are a Commie plot to
degrade the white race, to the upcoming Maunder Minimum will end life as we
know it. It or something close is out there. Whatever we want to believe
about anything is on the internet waiting for us to gobble it up, and allow
us to feel good about ourselves, no regard to legitimacy or lunacy, or the
outcome of such beliefs.

Commentary after postings often becomes a p*ssing match where everything is
only opinions, with no tethering in honest research, some quickly degrading
to exchanges of personal insults, none pertaining to the original question,
with all the gravitas of a manure fight.

While I surely want to see references where they are to be had, the old
fashioned kind with academic grade peer review and supporting data is the
sweet stuff that I like to see, where the argument about interpretation of
data pertains. Ain't always available, for cause, but that's the good
stuff.

The internet is the new "Tower of Babel". With English and several others
as fairly universal languages, the separation of language no longer has the
biblical effect. The biblical obfuscation is now achieved with the internet
where lunacy carries the same apparent rank as legitimacy.

In the end it is left to us to enjoin ourselves that we respond to neither
linguistic Babel nor internet babble.

73, and I'm looking forward to great low band conditions. I will be
thankful to see one more solar minimum for 160m entertainment.

Guy, K2AV

On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 2:37 PM, g4hds <g4hds at ronaunwin.plus.com> wrote:

> Here's a couple of references I found stored on my tablet
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> https://nextgrandminimum.wordpress.com/
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> http://notrickszone.com/2013/11/11/german-scientists-solar-cycle-24-points-to-dalton-or-maunder-like-minimum-boding-ill-for-a-climate-cooling/
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> http://theweathercentre.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/new-maunder-minimum-coming-in-not-so.html
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> 73 Paul
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