Shorting Out the Situation

NASA reports in, As the Sun Awakens, NASA Keeps a Weary Eye on Space Weather, on the sun's recent solar activity. The following is taken from the article.

"2010 marks the 4th year in a row that policymakers, researchers, legislators and reporters have gathered in Washington DC to share ideas about space weather. This year, forum organizers plan to sharpen the focus on critical infrastructure protection. The ultimate goal is to improve the nation’s ability to prepare, mitigate, and respond to potentially devastating space weather events.
'I believe we're on the threshold of a new era in which space weather can be as influential in our daily lives as ordinary terrestrial weather." Fisher concludes. "We take this very seriously indeed.'"

SDO Observes Massive Eruption, Scorching Rain has a couple videos of the sun activity.

LESSON: If we can not control what we do, how do we expect to control the effect of the sun?

Life Giving - Warmth from the Sun

Days' events are fitting together. Trash pickin' along our perimeter produced a large piece of plastic. Perhaps it was wrapped around some building material. The recent rain watered the newly sown seeds. And today we're cutting that plastic to cover the seeded soil to help retain some of the sun's warmth and the rain's moisture so necessary for seeds to sprout. Massachusetts is working on trying to set a new low temperature for May. By my thermomoter it dropped to 31'F Wednesday night. The all time low on record is 28'F. How does global warming produce lower temperatures?

We have a window airconditioner which is usually sufficient to cool the whole house in summer as long as we circulate the cooled air with fans. If we shut off the fans, we have one really cold room with the rest of the house uncomfortably warm. The world has a temperature circulation system also except that it is not so much air flow as water flow ...The Great Conveyor of the oceans... which circulates the sun warmed water from the Pacific around to the North Atlantic and then the cooled water back again to be rewarmed. Wondering how climate change and the ocean conveyor were related, I found this 2004 explanation from Nasa
http://www.science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/05mar_arctic.htm

"By disturbing a massive ocean current, melting Arctic Sea Ice might trigger colder weather in Europe and North America."

"If the Great Conveyor Belt suddenly stops, the cause might not matter. Europeans will have other things on their minds --like how to grow crops in snow. Now is the time to find out, while it's merely a chilling possibility."

As our world continues to fall out of balance and we in New England end up with colder, snowier winters, and a shortened growing season, alternative systems will be necessary for growing our food. Green house, hydroponics, an earth box, etc.