SUNSPOTS AND CICADAS

We read recently that some scientist has announced that he has determined that cicadas are not following their usual patterns in emerging in broods (ie., 5 yrs, 11 years, 19 years, etc). The reason he had deduced behind this disruption?

Picture Source: http://www.cicadamania.com/gallery.html
Joe Green: Tibicen resonans, Florida, 2007

Global warming. Of course.

Of course...it has been well established that the brood emergence patterns also follow another cycle...the sunspot cycle. And of late, there has been a dirth of sunspots, fewer than has been seen (for longer periods) than in the lifetime of any living scientist. One wonders, could it be the (already established correlation) SUNSPOT cycle that is influencing the cicadas instead?

However, ala "wheels within wheels"...it also turns out (largely unremarked in the print and BIG media) that the sun is emitting more energy than it has in along time, also (since sunspots are cooler than the rest of the sun's surface, this seems counter intuitive- until you consider the energy being conserved in the solar thermal cycle by the reduction in sunspots is being expressed in enhanced thermal output!). Could it be...?

Could it be...enhanced solar thermal output is leading to...global warming!? The NATURAL CYCLE that many have already well documented, for years. Not caused by man? Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize co-winner, soon to be memorialized by REPUBLICANS in his home state...is wrong!?

How could this be?

Maybe the answer lies in bugs and (solar) BTUs, after all.

"There is nothing new under the sun...all is vanity."


M.C.