Scientists blame sun for global warming (February 13, 1998)

BBC News ^ | Climatologists and astronomers

[george76]

Climate changes such as global warming may be due to changes in the sun rather than to the release of greenhouse gases on Earth.

Climatologists and astronomers speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Philadelphia say the present warming may be unusual - but a mini ice age could soon follow.

The sun provides all the energy that drives our climate, but it is not the constant star it might seem.

Careful studies over the last 20 years show that its overall brightness and energy output increases slightly as sunspot activity rises to the peak of its 11-year cycle.

[Fred Hayek]

Ya mean that the eeeviiil Karl Rove has a sun control module on his disaster machine?!?!?!?!?!? Provided by the sinister Halliburton?!?!?!?!? It's Bush's faullt!!!!!

(end DUmp mode)

[fanfan]

The moon is more important because it provides light at night when it is dark.

LOL!

That would be the light reflected off the moon, which came from the sun?

[evad]

Then again it just could be...

Reduced air pollution and increased water evaporation appear to be adding to man-made global warming.

LOL

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4880328.stm

[george76]

 

Big chill killed off the Neanderthals

 

 

 

[WideGlide]

I Propose that we load this jerk up on the next NASA rocket and point him at the sun. He's sure to darken the sun with his fat ass and cool things down here a bit. I'm getting tired of picking my tomatoes a week early.

[Edgerunner]

Exceptin' when the dark side is pointed at usin'... hehehe

[Rocky]

The climate model I have running on my computer doesn't take any solar heat into consideration, and this model shows the Earth getting hotter and hotter, year after year ... Explain that!!

Um... Can you say "faulty model"? I knew you could.

[Unmarked Package]

Yeah, a hotter sun causes global warming, but God controls the sun and conservatives support God's policies. Therefore, conservatives are the reason we have global warming. You see, I can think like a liberal if I hit my head hard enough against the table.

[lesser_satan]

bump

[CholeraJoe]

Thanks. Good graphic.

[I'm ALL Right!]

Bunch of morons, these scientists....if they had just listened to algore, they could have put that money towards some other study. After all, our brilliant former VP algore already determined that it's George Bush that is causing the Earth's temperature to rise. The sun has nothing to do with it.

In other news...scientists have determined that the floods in Europe may have been caused by rain. Stay tuned for more news from Capt. Obvious.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

It does'nt take science to figure that out,just good old common sense.

[tumblindice]

Bu bu bu bu but, won't we get all bur bur bur burned up?

Fool! You'll be landing on the sun's surface at night.

[george76]

"If global warming was shown to be caused by the sun and not CO2 then a lot of scientists would lose their funding and their kids would go hungry."


54 posted on 04/07/2006 11:51:01 AM PDT by texan75010

[Bubba_Leroy]

This is of course the only explanation that takes into account the fact that we are also observing global warming on Mars, Triton, and Pluto.

I'm still waiting for Algore and the rest of the environmental left to come up with an explanation for how Bush is causing global warming throughout the solar system.

[Galveston Grl]

Well, maybe the liberals who have to kill us all then to depopulate the earth.

[BadAndy]

I have recently started tracking local temperature and have noticed dramatic warming since January 1st 2006. If this trend continues it will 150 F next December.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"Anyone see that funny movie "The Day After Tomorrow?"

It was so funny South Park did a remake of it.

Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow! (Why That's Today... Ahhhhhhh!)

[freedumb2003]

Isn't there a site where you can see entire SP episodes? I should have bookmarked it when they were doing that Scientology episode (hilarious).

I don't get to watch SP very often, but when I do I love it.