... apologies for previous null-posting . I am sensing the rumblings of some kind of email software revolt...
Jack, Thanks for the update and particularly the strange message of "Bill Arnold" . Do you have a url for his paper? I cannot find it in a quick goggling. Common name. It is bizarre enough to be insightful, if not accurate. Is he saying that sunspots create corresponding "earthspots" which are responsible for such things as the extremely rainy weather in the midwest USA. He needs to lighten up a bit on the caps, but is there a grain of truth there? "As the sun is NOW in its SUNSPOT NODAL CYCLE PHASE it means that the NUMBER of SUNSPOTS counted on the sun are at MINIMUM. During this time, the SUNSPOTS have basically disappeared from the surface of the sun IN/AND AT its EQUATOR. By the same token, INDUCTION in the EARTHSPOTS are equally LOW and EQUATORIAL. Let us also POINT out that INTENSITY factors are noted. When the sun begins to create NEW and REVERSED POLARITY SUNSPOTS in its next CYCLE, they will appear halfway toward EACH pole, and as noted, POLARITY will be REVERSED. The CAUSAL EFFECT on EARTHSPOTS has been pointed out in my *Cycles* papers decades ago: and REAFFIRMED."
