Word: sunspots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...working to increase the number of available CB channels, while Congress is considering legislation by Ohio Representative Charles A. Vanik that would require manufacturers to install filters on all new TV and radio sets as a shield against RFI. But nature may have the last word. By 1978, increasing sunspot activity may cause atmospheric changes that could interfere with, and sometimes blot out CB transmissions...
Despite concern about the harm that could be done by nuclear explosions in the atmosphere, scientists have yet to find any significant effect on climate. At present, many weather researchers are far more interested in the effects of sunspots, the fierce magnetic storms on the solar surface, which are often accompanied by the eruption of great flares of immensely hot gases. The streams of particles shot off during these episodes are already known to disturb the earth's magnetic field and disrupt communications. Astrophysicist Walter Orr Roberts, former director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, thinks that they...
...planets line up, they say, the combined gravitational tug will raise large tides and cause great flare-ups on the sun, which will then be at the peak of its eleven-year sunspot cycle. The solar storms will spew out streams of charged particles more intense than usual, disrupting radio communications on earth, creating exceptionally bright northern (and southern) lights, and affecting global weather patterns. Prevailing west-to-east winds will moderate, decreasing their contribution to the earth's rotation and allowing it to slow ever so slightly. The abrupt slowdown would provide the necessary nudge, as Gribbin...
...Sunspot Cycle. The changing weather is apparently connected with differences in the amount of energy that the earth's surface receives from the sun. Changes in the earth's tilt and distance from the sun could, for instance, significantly increase or decrease the amount of solar radiation falling on either hemisphere-thereby altering the earth's climate. Some observers have tried to connect the eleven-year sunspot cycle with climate patterns, but have so far been unable to provide a satisfactory explanation of how the cycle might be involved...
Harvard's quixotic fencing team, on the threshhold of clinching sole possession of its first Ivy title, failed to maintain its hold on the Ivy sunspot Saturday, dropping a heartbreaking 14-13 decision to Yale in New Haven...