.we're doomed I tell you...doomed
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
And that the greatest of the "greenhouse gasses" is WATER VAPOR that keeps the globe cooled!!! What dipsticks!!! (but they'll never stop till they wipe out Bush and Capitalism and Earth's economy!)
Reflector Satellites Proposed To Prevent Global Warming
James Pearson, John Oldson and Eugene Levin of Star Technology and Research in Mount Pleasant South Carolina propose construction of a system of satellites to control the amount of sunlight that reaches and warms Earth.
A wild idea to combat global warming suggests creating an artificial ring of small particles or spacecrafts around Earth to shade the tropics and moderate climate extremes.
There would be side effects, proponents admit. An effective sunlight-scattering particle ring would illuminate our night sky as much as the full Moon, for example.
And the price tag would knock the socks off even a big-budget agency like NASA: $6 trillion to $200 trillion for the particle approach. Deploying tiny spacecraft would come at a relative bargain: a mere $500 billion tops.
But the idea, detailed today in the online version of the journal Acta Astronautica, illustrates that climate change can be battled with new technologies, according to one scientist not involved in the new work.
Social anthropologist Benny Peiser of the British Liverpool John Moores University says this proposal demonstrates humans can prevent disastrous climate changes.
"I don't think that the modest warming trend we are currently experiencing poses any significant or long-term threat," Peiser told LiveScience. "Nevertheless, what the paper does show quite impressively is that our hyper-complex civilization is theoretically and technologically capable of dealing with any significant climate change we may potentially face in the future."
Excellent! That's a keeper.
Nah. That was caused by Chuck Norris
This makes him just as big of a dumass Governor as Schwartzenegger with his "Hydrogen Highway" stuff!!!
The very thing that made it possible for those mountain tops to be a national monument were being melted by reason of mankinds industrious existence!!! I felt so ashamed... AND DIRTY!!! (NOT!)(snort!)(I did wonder why that smokin hellocopter din't just fall right out of the sky because of the BIG LIE)
It looks like they are building themselves a "back door" to worm out of some of their man-made B.S.
Gees, the Sun is getting larger. Billions of years from now, it will be a red giant.
The trend reversed in the 1990s to 2000. Then reversed again in 2001. The easy explanation is a decrease in air pollution.
But what this "problem" points out is that climate science and the computer models that are used to predict the future are not adequate.
The computer models can't deal adequately with clouds and solar insolation (the amount of sunlight reaching the earth).
Scientists had wanted to put a satellite in space in solar orbit, measuring "albedo" - the ammount of sunlight reflected by the surface of the earth. Unfortunately, that satellite was never launched. So they don't know how much sunlight reaches the earth, how much is reflected by the earth, and how much is absorbed by the earth.
So far, the only theory about global warming or global cooling that stands up to scrutiny are the Milankovich Cycles - the orbital anomalies of the earth - proposed by Milutin Milankovich in full form in 1940. He was trying to explain why our Ice Ages occurred every 100,000 years.
.we're doomed I tell you...doomed
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