We are at the peak of the solar 11 year cycle. Some however see a sun that it is very inactive. See solar minimum page. Or you might be interested in seeing what NASA left out of the last report. Now many of these videos are quite scary, and if there is anything that we have learned about climate it is to stay tuned, not sell your home and move North or South.
Variations in the solar magnetic field has an impact that affects climate. An introduction to how these solar cycles have been seen in historic terms to affect climate. Sunspots also have an impact since that is a sign of increased or reduced solar activity, and this does correlate to climate, and it raises the question are we headed into a cooling period?
We should revisit occasionally what the proper role of government is. As the constitution was a good sense of direction, we need a core set of principles to add in order to deal with the future.
So many want to engineer society, remove risk, assist certain groups, rather than let individuals thrive and raise communities. Why?
Is Democracy where we all "get it good and hard" or is it the best means to a free society?
Should we roll with the special interests, or make the government achieve its proper role, what is that role, and how to do this?
When do deficits and governments become too large?
Government is becoming more elitist while trying to sell corrections to problems it created, what makes this possible?
This could also be inserted into the field above, or erased
Currently as a society, we are having a most difficult time discussing political issues. What is driving this? And why a rebirth in political culture would be a good thing.
Are "markets" dead as some would conjecture? Or is free enterprise what got us here?
At the heart of economics there are several possible economic schools of thought, the essence of these schools of thought and how they relate to our lives.