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Scientists blame sun for global warming (February 13, 1998)
BBC News ^
| Climatologists and astronomers
Posted on 04/07/2006 12:09:17 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: algore; astronomers; astrophysicists; blame; bush; bushsfault; climatologists; earth; gases; global; globalwarming; globalwarmingping; godsgravesglyphs; gore; greenhouse; greenhousegases; science; scientists; sun; warming
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To: george76
Hopefully the UN will come up with some plan which punishes the Sun if it doesn't get its act together. Maybe higher taxes on photons would do the trick.
To: vbmoneyspender
Another oil for food UN type project.
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posted on
04/07/2006 1:03:54 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: bobbdobbs
To: DoughtyOne
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA to this one too
To: bobbdobbs
LOL! I can just see some lefty saying that!
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posted on
04/07/2006 1:18:19 PM PDT
by
vpintheak
(What's worse, and liberal, or a know it all posing as a Conservative?)
To: george76
You mean changes in the intensity of the sun's rays can cause increased warming??!!!? (Driftless scratches noggin in bewilderment)
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posted on
04/07/2006 1:49:34 PM PDT
by
driftless
( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
To: george76
Settled science my A$$.
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posted on
04/07/2006 1:55:52 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(In the Land of the Blind the one-eyed man is king.)
To: george76
We have warming every winter. It's called Florida.
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posted on
04/07/2006 2:47:18 PM PDT
by
Sunnyflorida
((Elections Matter)
To: george76
Just what was our ability to measure sun activity in 1706? Is it even possible to truly tell whether the sun is actually more active today than it was 300 years ago?
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posted on
04/08/2006 3:58:41 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(If you don't want to be lumped in with those who commit violence in your name, take steps to end it.)
To: george76
LOL! Finally Scientists have became aware of what the rest of us already knew. What a relief it is to see them at last, blaming the "sun" rather than blaming every Mother's "son" in the USA.
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posted on
04/08/2006 7:45:48 AM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
(Haw! Haw! Stop it Reid, Kennedy, Kerry,Dims! Haw! Haw! (gasp) I can't take anymore. Haw!Haw!Haw!)
To: Sunnyflorida
LOL! We could include the entire southern hemisphere in that warming. With the exception of antartica, of course.
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posted on
04/08/2006 7:52:56 AM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
(Haw! Haw! Stop it Reid, Kennedy, Kerry,Dims! Haw! Haw! (gasp) I can't take anymore. Haw!Haw!Haw!)
To: Gaetano
when you take into account how much cooler it is INDOORS (with air conditioning), the AVERAGE of indoor and outdoor temperatures has actually gown DOWN :<)
Actually A/C does not "put cold in". It "takes hot out", and rather inefficiently. The best way to think about it is the transfer of heat from one area to another, via things with a lot of surface area; using a gas that gets compressed to (near) liquid form. More of an exchange of temperature.
To: I'm ALL Right!
Stay tuned for more news from Capt. Obvious.
To: DoughtyOne
Just what was our ability to measure sun activity in 1706?
To: george76
Not you...them.
Cheers!
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posted on
04/08/2006 8:32:18 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Euro-American Scum
Worse it's all those CO2 tanks used for paintball.
To: george76
So when we get the mini-ice age all the people driving the SUV's will be helping save the environment by warming it up and the ones driving the hybrids will be damaging the environment by reducing emissions. Also, Haliburton will be beneficial to saving the world by providing the fossil fuels to warm it back up. The libs heads would explode!
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posted on
04/08/2006 9:01:46 AM PDT
by
Reagan is King
(Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it)
To: Pete'sWife
****How does that explain higher nighttime temperatures?****
PLEASE say you're kidding.
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posted on
04/08/2006 11:00:53 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(Better to fight for something than live for nothing - Gen. George S. Patton)
To: ARealMothersSonForever
Have those been carbon dated? LOL
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posted on
04/08/2006 11:11:12 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(If you don't want to be lumped in with those who commit violence in your name, take steps to end it.)
To: ClearCase_guy
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!!
The climate model, your computer and you are defective.
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posted on
04/08/2006 11:27:48 AM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(In the end it does not matter if you win. All men die. What matters is how you lived. No surrender)
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