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To: goodnesswins

The biggest effect of sunspots is not from any difference in heat hitting the planet, but from the “umbrella effect”. High sunspot activity extends from the sun in all directions and deflects cosmic rays from reaching Earth and the other planets. Cosmic rays create clouds when they hit the atmosphere, and that causes cooling. So more sunspots means fewer clouds and warming. Fewer sunspots will mean cooling disproportionate to the difference in actual output from the sun.


38 posted on 06/14/2011 10:42:12 PM PDT by Kellis91789 (There's a reason the mascot of the Democratic Party is a jackass.)
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To: Kellis91789

Thanks for that explanation....


43 posted on 06/15/2011 8:14:28 AM PDT by goodnesswins (...both islam and the democrat plantation thrive on poverty)
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