Posted on 09/21/2011 4:13:42 PM PDT by neverdem
The IPCC and other warmist promoters have dismissed the role of the sun as negligible based on calculations of total solar irradiance (TSI). The claim is that the increase in TSI during the latter part of the 20th century (coinciding with the Grand Solar Maximum, a period of very active sunspots and magnetic effects) could only drive a small amount of the measured warming of the Earth. Since current theory offers no alternative explanation, carbon dioxide emissions are blamed as the culprit.
But our understanding of the sun is growing by leaps and bounds, and we are learning many things about solar activity that we never knew before. Experiments at CERN have shown that a dearth of solar wind, those charged particles emitted from the sun, allows cosmic rays to reach the Earth and drives the formation of clouds which act to reflect more sunlight back into space. We now know that the sun's magnetic field is far more intimately involved with the Earth's than anyone had thought.
And now we know that solar flare aftershocks occur -- and those aftershocks are accompanied by high levels of Ultraviolet radiation.
According to this release from NASA:
"NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), launched in February 2010, made the finding: About 1 in 7 flares experience an "aftershock." About ninety minutes after the flare dies down, it springs to life again, producing an extra surge of extreme ultraviolet radiation.
"We call it the 'late phase flare,'" says Woods. "The energy in the late phase can exceed the energy of the primary flare by as much as a factor of four."
What causes the late phase? Solar flares happen when the magnetic fields of sunspots erupt-a process called "magnetic reconnection." The late phase is thought to result when some of the sunspot's magnetic...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
This has got to be driving the warmist psuedo-scientists bonkers!
So of course, it is to puzzle if these super hot shots of ultraviolet light that come from dying solar flares are somehow involved in heating the lower atmosphere too. I suppose they could, as the heated upper atmosphere generates infrared radiation which would warm the surface of the earth as well as lower layers of the atmosphere.
This would be something easy to check out empirically, as there are detailed records of cosmic ray influx and cloud cover now. More cosmic rays leading to more cloud cover would show how solar flares could impact the weather.
Apparently the sea level has dropped the last couple of years.
That would seem to mean one thing. The ice build up in Antarctica has to be increasing, not decreasing.
And if this trend continues, watch out... The sea has been rising at a pretty consistent rate for hundreds of years if that changes it really does mean global cooling.
The AGW/IPCC scammers not only ignored this type of information they “COOKED THE BOOKS” to make the industrial gas CO2 appear as the main culprit for political reasons so they could take your money. Much like the socialist democrat party the AGW/IPCC hoax has collasped faster than al gore can side step a debate since the release of the emails.
It has and there’s strong correlation.
“The IPCC and other warmist promoters have dismissed the role of the sun as negligible”
..... You just cannot make this stuff up! LOL.
Ping
UV low during recent solar minimum
Now the sun is fairly active right now, similar to its above average activity level earlier in the year, but it is too little and too late to help this winter.
Does it warm things further down in the atmosphere, is the question. Cf. the classic demonstration of playing the flame of a torch upon the top of a sink full of water, with a hand or thermometer held just below the surface showing no effect from the hot flame.
At any rate, UV-A penetrates rather deeply into the lower atmosphere.
The forecasts involving Irene didn’t read prevailing barometric pressures into the predictions? That is poor weather forecasting no matter what the ultimate reason for the barometric pressures.
The direction of the winds surely makes a difference as well. Transverse winds create reduced pressures due to the Bernoulli effect. Cf. the classic demonstration with water running from a faucet and a ping pong ball held on a string. The ping pong ball will seem to cling to the stream of water.
Actually the pressure inside the hurricane is not absolute. It is relative and should be biased with the pressure of the upper overlying atmosphere (not an easy metric to acquire). We now know that pressure varies with the solar cycle. So they were reading a lower absolute pressure then the actual relative pressure was, thus it was no Cat 4 when compared to other historical norms. Heck it barely even rated a Cat 1 upon landfall and even that is in dispute.
I don’t think the environmental movement is based on science, but politcal opportunism and control. In the case of CFCs you had the inherent destructiveness of the Green movement combined with a profit motive. Of course government had to act.
Human beings are a far greater threat to each other financially (reckless spending and bankruptcy) than by virtue of the climate change. Take a look at the change in climate and compare that to the financial meltdown. The time scale, magnitude, and so on are pretty clear and in contrast to each other.
Wow. I never saw anybody relent on an internet newsgroup. LOL!
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