[blam]

"The Sun has been at its strongest for more than 60 years and a period of high solar activity could be approaching its end."

Hmmmm. Sun hotter = Earth hotter. Problem solved, it's a natural cycle.

[Duke Nukum]

The first rule of life: most problems solve themselves if you just get out of the way and let them.

Of course, it's very easy for a problem to fix itself when it doesn't exist.

[verum ago]

"expert": no, no, this finding doesn't agree with current Global Warming dogma and must therefore be wrong.

[petertare]

Quit your interference of the ALbore candidacy.

[John Lenin]

The Earth moves away from the Sun something like a half inch a year. Eventually Earth will be covered in ice.

[Terpfen]

I sense a Fantastic Four reference coming soon.

... Oh, wait.

[adam_smith_76]

Here is their thinking process:

1. Global warming is true.
2. We still can't find evidence of it.
3. We must find a way to explain this lack of evidence.
4. Cosmic rays. Create a theory involving cosmic rays.

[Torie]

A less active sun creates more cosmic rays, which create more clouds, which deflect heat? I am getting the dominos right here? The squib is rather delphic. One would think a more active sun would create more cosmic rays, not less.

[UNGN]

How much is big oil paying the sun?????

[bruinbirdman]

" 'This would produce a cooling effect that could counter part of the global warming predicted for the next century,'said Dr Jens Olaf Pedersen, of the Danish National Space Centre."

Wrong answer, cancel his grant.

yitbos

[VictoryGal]

Plus: Cosmic Rays give us cool super heroes.

[Rockingham]

This sixty year solar cycle is so significant that it has a demonstrable effect on commodity prices and stock markets. Due to scorn for astrology, modern science has a phobia about recognizing that space weather cycles have an influence on terrestial weather cycles.

[KellyAdmirer]

So, basically there's a ton of variables and the scientists are all talking out of their hats when they try to predict the weather. Ok, I'll buy that.

[Publius6961]

It is becoming clearer as time goes on that the less competent (but loud) "scientists", and the politicians will be in for a lot of deserved schadenfreude for going off half-cocked.

Believing that they had the experience and intellect to grasp what is perhaps the most difficult scientific puzzle facing mankind: climate and all of its permutations, cycles and feedback loops.

A lot more relevant than the "big bang".

Guess the little boys didn't quite have the mental horsepower that they thought they did...

[pfony1]

blam: Thanks for the report.

If it is true that the Sun has "brightened" during the past 60 years, then the "Theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming" has lost still more of its "credibility", has it not?

ERF: "Ping"...

...and a follow-up question:

Do you acknowledge that the Medieval Warming Period and the Little Ice Age did, in fact, occur?

[Techster]

And this from a Danish source:

"An essential role for remote stars in everyday weather on Earth has been revealed by an experiment at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen."

"It is already well-established that when cosmic rays, which are high-speed atomic particles originating in exploded stars far away in the Milky Way, penetrate Earth’s atmosphere they produce substantial amounts of ions and release free electrons. Now, results from the Danish experiment show that the released electrons significantly promote the formation of building blocks for cloud condensation nuclei on which water vapour condenses to make clouds."

The complete article can be found here:

http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/physik_astronomie/bericht-71378.html


This makes a lot of sense when we consider what can be seen in a 'cloud chamber' experiment.