[ChessExpert]

Your graph is interesting, but it was made by S. Baliunas and W. Soon, whose research was funded by Exxon. (emphasis added)

I hope you don’t mean to discredit the work based upon corporate funding. To me, government and/or university funding may be more suspect. But it shouldn’t matter who funds or who produces. What counts is the analysis itself.

[Steve Van Doorn]

" I hope you don’t mean to discredit the work based upon corporate funding."

that is rather funny considering Enron put 2 or 3 Billion dollars into trying to prove global warming is real.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Al Gore is so much more credible. I heard a great Gore soundbite on the radio on the radio about 10 years ago. The reporter asked Gore, "Research suggests that volcanoes put out 1000 times the CO₂ that man-made things do. How is that less of an effect than cars and industry?" Al's answer was, "The wind blew it away?"

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

If it was funded by Exxon, it's gotta be pure evil. I'm so impressed by the "research" done by the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and Harvard University.