[backhoe]

I think the sun has pretty profound effects on climate stability in the world.

A picture's worth a thousand words...

...but for a clearer idea of how tiny we are, google "mass of the solar system."

[Northern Yankee]

Love it!

Thanks... and good morning!

[Graybeard58]

* Sun: 99.85%
* Planets: 0.135%
* Comets: 0.01% ?
* Satellites: 0.00005%
* Minor Planets: 0.0000002% ?
* Meteoroids: 0.0000001% ?
* Interplanetary Medium: 0.0000001% ?

[ovrtaxt]

Wow. Somehow, 93 million miles doesn't seem far enough!!

[palmer]

Here's a chart showing the effect of those sunspots:

I found it interesting that since man is supposed to be the source of all or most short term CO2 variations, it appears that the man is varying CO2 almost exactly in tune with the sunspot cycle.