Posted on 05/05/2005 5:46:47 PM PDT by blam
Sunlight is increasing on Earth
By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent
(Filed: 06/05/2005)
More sunlight is reaching the Earth's surface than it was 15 years ago, scientists reveal today.
American researchers say there has been a four per cent rise in the amount of solar radiation reaching the planet's surface since 1990.
Several studies have shown that up until the late 1980s, four to six per cent less sunlight penetrated the atmosphere than during the 1950s.
Researchers believe the shift could be explained by the varying quantity and composition of aerosols, tiny solid and liquid particles suspended in the air.
Other theories include changes in cloud cover or in atmospheric transparency caused by volcanic eruptions.
Scientists believe that an increase in the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface could add to the greenhouse effect, the warming caused by the build-up of carbon dioxide and other gasses that trap heat in the atmosphere.
Many believe the effects of these trends are already being seen in the melting of polar ice and glaciers.
Sounds more like the opposite of the greenhouse effect but you know global warming theory - it explains everything.
Nice to see the Sun finally doing some work for a change, stupid lazy sun.
What we all start burning coal again? Would that cut down on the sunlight?
You'd never know it here in Ohio.
In fact, I thought we only had global warming here in the U.S......
Exactly how does this back up the leftist Greenie view?
Let's see -
The greenhouse gasses we keep hearing them complain about should actually block out sunlight- strike one:
The banning of CFC's as propellants was suppose to protect the ozone layer that helps shield us from the sun's rays.... strike two.
The phasing out of R-12 refrigerant was suppose to also save the ozone layer - strike three....
So what's the deal? You mean more stupid enviro-nazi laws are being proven wrong again???? Well, duh!
And we're the only people who disenfranchise black voters, right?
Yeah, yeah....I know....all Bush's fault.....
I think you have something there. Perhaps our efforts to clean the air have been carried too far.
But you know, ice out of the Yukon has been happening earlier each year,(this year was earlier by 3 days than ever in past), 3-4 weeks earlier than 25 years back. We also had a record fire season last summer and this spring is starting out just as dry as last year.
Not that we're going to change things, but hard not to notice that its getting a few degrees warmer.
It's Bush's fault!
Of course, the same historical and archeological data that the greenies use to claim global warming also shows that the earth has had several periods of significant warming and cooling - most before mankind ever had an opportunity to think he could alter the climate.
So then where is the rise in sea level?
As I understand it, the earth has been in age ages for about 80 percent of the last million years. Is it possible that we have two choices?
1. Continue putting CO2 in the atmosphere, warming up the earth a bit, and eliminating many south pacific islands as well as much of Florida and Bangladesh.
2. Crack down on all greenhouse emissions, and have the ice make all most of the United States (and pretty much all of Canada and Europe) inhospitable.
With sincere apologies to Bangladesh, option #1 is probably better for humanity. Besides, as the Netherlands has shown, technology can counter the effects of rising seas to some degree. Countering the effects of a mile-high river of ice is a bit tougher.
If the news was presented truthfully, there would only be need for about 1 newspaper a year.
The real truth is that that Earth's climate always has and always will change, just as the land masses themselves change.
The CO2 the CO, the ozone, coal burning, car pollution, not a one of these has had a measurable effect on altering the fact that our climate has and is and will continue to change, and there isn't a thing we can do about it, save explode the whole planet.
Earthquakes and volcanoes will continue, unabated , and due to the multiplicity of factors which cause them, will never truly be predictable.
Water is wet, and the sky is blue. Grass is green, and that's about all you can say about that, Jimmy!
"You'd never know it here in Ohio."
Hey, at least it quit snowing!
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