To: proud_yank; All
Unfortunately, that means the Sun is causing it, and unless somebody can figure out how to fly up to Old Sol, and reset the themostat, we are just going to have to endure.
The problem I've had with the Global Warming crowd all along is that they have an agenda to cripple the West's economies, and give the worst polluters a pass. That, and many of 'em were promoting a New Ice Age a while back.
Truth is, we just do not have enough accurate data, over a wide enough time frame ( geologic, meaning thousands and tens of thousands of years ) to have more than the vaguest idea of what is happening, or what to do about it.
Our sister site in Canada actually has a couple of good sub-forums regarding this:
Examining the use of 'environmentalism' as a means to power.
For the discussion of the Kyoto Accord
Just out of curiousity, google "mass of the solar system," and you will discover stuff like this:
That's right, all the rest of the mass of the solar system- us, inner planets, gas giants that are almost big enough to be stars, the asteroid belt, the cosmic dust- is .2%
That tells me the Sun is the master controller... as I suspected nearly 40 years ago upon learning this obscure but telling fact.
