Posted on 03/05/2007 11:07:44 AM PST by Kaslin
Two new reports cast doubt on the manmade global warming theory and instead point to another cause for the recent warming of Earth — changes in the sun.
One report from National Geographic News asserts, "Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet’s recent climate changes have a natural — and not a human-induced — cause, according to one scientist’s controversial theory.”
Data from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey mission in 2005 disclosed that the carbon dioxide "ice caps” near Mars’ south pole had been shrinking for three consecutive summers.
Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the shrinking provides evidence that the current warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun, according to the National Geographic article.
"The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars,” he said. "Manmade greenhouse warming has made a small contribution to the warming seen on Earth in recent years but it cannot compete with the increase in solar irradiance.”
The other report offers a mechanism behind the changes in the sun — variations in its magnetic field.
Compiled by scientists at the Danish National Space Center, it maintains that the Earth’s climate is strongly influenced by cosmic rays from exploded stars.
The cosmic rays help make ordinary clouds, and high levels of rays and cloudiness cool the planet, while lower levels of radiation lead to milder temperatures, according to the Danish report, which is cited by Marc Morano, communications director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, on the committee’s Web site.
"Cosmic ray intensities — and therefore cloudiness — keep changing because the sun’s magnetic field varies in its ability to repel cosmic rays coming from the galaxy before they reach the Earth,” the Danish report by Henrik Svensmark, head of the Space Center, explains.
Whenever the sun’s magnetic field was weak, cosmic ray intensities were high and the climate cooled, most recently in the little ice age that climaxed 300 years ago.
Several scientists cited in the report believe that changes in the Earth’s climate are linked to "the journey of the sun and the Earth through the Milky Way Galaxy. They blame the icehouse episodes on encounters with bright spiral arms, where cosmic rays are most intense.”
Good luck. Much of the Proxy data has been censored and all of the computer models algorithms are hidden "trade secrets" even though Mann’s research was funded by U.S. taxpayers through the National Science Foundation and the Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Contact Steve McIntyre:
http://www.climateaudit.org/
He might be able to help.
...guess again.
Why do you assume just because this report is from scientists with a silly little doctorate on the subject, that they know more than algore. I'm sure they don't have an oscar.
Al will buy up the other shareholder's stock for 5 cents on the dollar offsetting his losses. He sells it all and folds it into his Occidental Oil stock.
I do it to put an extra buck in my pocket. Does turning off lights when I leave the room save the planet, though? Nope. Not even if everyone did it.
LOL! Would I be wrong to guess this acquaintance lives off the government teat and is seldom out of bed by daybreak?
Really!? I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you! I though it was Pluto causing global warming.
Close...after proving himself incompetent at a service station where he collected money from drivers and waved good buy to two cars on succesive weeks, both Mercedes, in which he had neglected to remove the nozzle from the tank....he, at last report, was driving bus at a ski resort that will remain unnamed.
Even more LOL!!!
He's incapable of carrying on an argument...even in his own head!
All I can say about Global Warming is please bring it on. We're in Central New York State on March 5 and we're being told that tonight the temperature will be 20 below zero! Please, please, bring on the global warming - we need it badly. Plus, our heating bill is going to put us in the poor house.
Here Comes The Sun
(George Harrison)
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Little darlin' it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darlin' it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Little darlin' the smiles returning to their faces
Little darlin' it seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Little darlin' I feel the ice is slowly meltin'
Little darlin' it seems like years since it's been clear
Here come the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right
Here come the sun, here comes the sun
It's all right, it's all right
“controversial theory” — what a ridiculous theory, that the Earth’s SOLE SOURCE OF HEAT changes the climate!!!
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