[Swordmaker]

When I was in college in the early 1970s, I was taking a senior honors class in the newly "popular" science of ecology... the thrust of the class was the disturbing global cooling. The title of the honors class was "Global Cooling and the Coming Ice Age." EVerything taught in that class assumed that the pollution produced by humankind (specifically American humankind) was going to cause the planet to experience another ice age that would last for 10,000 years.

Look at your chart which is obviously based on the discredited "hockey stick" projections... Like the hockey stick, this chart is NOT science... it is speculation. Instead of being a forward projection of false assumptions, it is merely a backwards projection of similarly false assumptions.

The creators of this fiction even TELL you that is what it is... What part of "Reconstructed irradiance" do you fail to understand? The fact is that NO ONE was measuring the Watts per Meter² from 1860 through 1960.... that was something we started doing in the Geophysical year in 19556-1957. EVERYTHING before then is a guess based on a very short baseline between when we first started making the measurement and about 1980 when someone decided the declining temperatures of the last 20 years were going up again... and they had to change their scare stories.

The mere coincidence of the fairly steady minor decline in the measured surface irradiance and the completely UNSTEADY variations but averaging flat to slight decline in temperature (Measured where?) during that period gave rise to the hypothesis that there was a causal relationship. They then used the "effect" (change in temperature) to "reconstruct" what they assumed the "cause" (Surface Irradiance) would have been in the past WITH NO CONFIRMING DATA!

Gee, it looks like you've been Zotted while I was preparing this response...