Posted on 04/10/2007 7:30:56 AM PDT by George W. Bush
As Mr Ponte writes today:
“But the Leftist press continues to quote bug and flower scientists about global warming - including doomsayers who three decades ago were predicting a fast-approaching, planet-freezing ice age. (I should know, being author of the 1976 Prentice-Hall bestselling climate book The Cooling.)
Helen Caldicott says ‘bomb’ the same way as Peter Seller’s Inspector Clouseau.
***The data suggests that changing solar activity is influencing in some way the global climate causing the world to get warmer. ***
These guys are brilliant! I never would have come up with the conclusion that the SUN is causing the world to get warmer. I thought it was all man’s fault.
When sunspots are numerous, the solar wind protects the earth from cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are the cause of nucleation of clouds that bring rain, snow and shield the earth from direct sunlight. More cosmic rays means more clouds and colder weather. Conversely, more solar wind reduces cosmic rays and brings fewer clouds, rain and snow. The impact is net warming.
Solar cycles are evident in the ice cores. The current warming will turn around when the sunspot cycle heads toward another minimum. No socialist legislation, carbon credits and similar green weenie inspired activities will be necessary or required.
Not really true. The entire concept of an "average" temperature, on which the global warming advocates depend, is in dispute. Additionally, there are many scientists who scoff at the idea that we can know what the "average" temperature of the earth is, to a degree or less, even now let alone 100 years ago.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/03/is_there_an_average_global_tem_1.html
Stewart Brand was being sarcastic when he said that. He is actually pro-technology.
I think it's just a sign of how bad man-made global warming has become...things are getting so bad here they're actually effecting the sun!!
We're all going to die.
GASP! It’s not GLOBAL WARMING, but SOLAR WARMING! We have caused the entire system to go bad. We are the cause of even the temperature raises in other systems.
We are at the minimum now, but like many things in nature there is a lag time. We will be headed toward the maximum soon but right now we are down, ask any ham radio operator, we keep excellent track of sunspots since radio propagation on certain bands is great during the sunspot maximum and very bad during the low, such is the case now.
Thank you. Exactly right. The scientists are intimidated, the reporters don’t understand the science, and the readers - for the most part - understand neither the politics nor the science. Hence silly propositions float freely through our media space.
But the sun has nothing to do with Global Warming. Nothing at all.
Algore and the envirowhackos want to send probes to Uranus....
It seems to me that the greens are plotting the extinction of the human race, by banning fur coats, fossil fuels to heat homes, and nuclear power to heat as well. The ethanol situation was a stroke of brilliance, cutting off our food supply and fossil fuels in one swift stroke.
bump
It's not happening
Dagnabbit, it is not my fault!
Don't you get tired of being blamed for everything?
My theory, which I have, is mine, which belongs to me, is as follows...a-hem...this is how it goes...a-hem...The Theory, by A. Elk....The next thing I am about to say is my theory...a-hem... (rapid machine gun fire)
Yeah, it’s like the fact that the sun setting below the horizon indirectly causes it to get dark every night...
Is too!
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