Posted on 03/26/2006 8:29:27 AM PST by aculeus
A series of independent studies around the world show a significant rise in the amount of sunshine penetrating the atmosphere to be absorbed by the earth’s surface and turned into heat.
The research will concern climate researchers who are already predicting a rapid rise in global temperatures due to man-made emissions of so-called greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide.
“The enhanced warming we have seen since the 1990s along with phenomena such as the widespread melting of glaciers could well be due to this increased intensity of sunlight compounding the effect of greenhouse gases,” said Professor Martin Wild of the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Science in Zurich, Switzerland.
Researchers will present their findings to the European Geophysical Union conference in Vienna next week.
They reverse a 30-year trend. Measurements of sunshine levels between 1960 and 1990 had shown a decrease in the amount of sunshine reaching the earth.
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The sun always appears brighter to me after a GOP victory. Looks like this too is Bush's fault.
I guess it doesn't occur to them that the increased solar activity could be the source of the warming, instead of the increase in CO2 due to human activity.
Nah, that would go against current scientific dogma. And it's a lot harder to get grants to study a natural phenomenon that can't be countered.
They had better be careful. They might find out global warming is caused by the sun.
If this is true, which I have a problem with, it will all be laid at the feet of George Bush .... nevermind China and India.
"Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun, and I'll do the next best thing: block it out!"--C. Montgomery Burns
Weird, that orb which warms our planet has an effect on the temperature of this planet... Imagine that!
Don't forget that it was our fault all those iceages started and ended (you know, the ones where there were gigantic, billion-ton sheets of ice sliding around on the continents, carving valleys and whatnot, that melted somehow...).
These idiots can't even square the title with the first sentence: there's a difference between the sun actually getting brighter, and more sunlight reaching the earth.
The sun always appears brighter to me after a GOP victory. Looks like this too is Bush's fault.
Me too. You know I NEVER worry about the sun being brighter. I mean who in the world is worried about this. I can't even imagine anyone I hang out with worrying about this. I could just imagine my friends sitting around drinking beer and one of us would say "you know guys, I am really fearful of the brighter sun." Can you imagine? First of all we would probably spit out our beer, second we would think he would need a urinalysis and then third obviously he would need more alcoholic beverages to get himself back to normal again. This has to be the craziest story to date on FREEPERS.
"I guess it doesn't occur to them that the increased solar activity could be the source of the warming, instead of the increase in CO2 due to human activity."
It also doesn't occur to them that, based upon other, scientific research, New York City (for example) was under a two-mile thick sheet of ice 12,000 years ago.
Now, if that isn't proof enough that global warming is a natural phenomenon independant of human activity, then nothing is. We're not dealing with just science, we're dealing with a science-as-religion, on this issue. Logic and "science" have nothing to do with it; it's all about controlling behavior.
Solar output links:
http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/space/solterr/output.html
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2005/09/sunwarm.html
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sun_output_030320.html
Has the world gone all nuts? Climate change is now a cause of "fear"?
The only constant that can be said of climate is its constant and extreme variability. Hundreds of millions of years of it, now.
Me? I will fear and cower in the dark over sunrise and sunset. Traumatic, they are!
And then there's the biggie... Meteor strikes! Does everyone appreciate the number and size of meteor strikes throughout the world (that we know about)? Hundreds!
Some of those impact craters are a hundred miles across!
Oh my God! Horrors!
Woe is me!
BRB. I need more coffee...
When the solar storm activity decreases again the amount of sunshine reaching the earth.
The world is running out of oil but I can't get to work on time unless I leave an hour early on account of all the traffic jams. All the jobs in America have gone overseas but everybody has a HELP WANTED and you can't get decent service because everybody is understaffed. The housing bubble has popped but I still can't find a house under $300,000. We are in a drought but the sump pump in my basement is still working overtime pumping out all that rainwater. We are in the worst economy ever but I still can't find a parking space at a shopping mall because everybody's out shopping and I still can't find a table in a restaurant on a Friday night without having to wait two hours.
We're doomed I tell you, doomed!
Pretty much.
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