Republicans and their deregulation are to blame...
Fire his ass.
Oh nooooooo.....solar system change.....we better put a stop to it now or we are all going to die!
Women and children hardest hit...
Mini Ice Age coming - We are all doomed ;)
So they admit the Sun can cause changes in the Solar System, but not on Planet Earth?
Can you say, “Maunder Minimum?” “Mini Ice Age?” I hope it’s not the case but if there are still few sunspots well into 2009 it will be time to worry.
In the solar system? All of the planets including Uranus?
They mean, ‘the sunspot system on the sun’, I guess.
Notice how the MSM is keeping this silent? No need for the masses to learn (once again) that libs are the folks who flunked science 101.
but could not have any impact on our climate change since SUV’s and republicans are chiefly to blame, according to settled scientific consensus...
Mr. Obvious takes control of NASA.
I hope I'm wrong because if this is true, it will make what happened in the stock market look like a picnic and this week was a "blue sky" week. Invest in furs, woodburning stoves, winter wear.
Interesting.
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Conditions around the sun are hot and bright. How many research dollars do I get for that? /s
Here is a couple of snippets from The Global Warming Heritic that summarizes the relationship as proposed by Dr. Tim Patterson of Carleton University in Canada:
That's all well and good, but the mud core data had another story to tell that flies directly in the face of what Dr. James Hansen, Al Gore, etc. have been preaching: the climate changes recorded in the 5,000 years of sediment correlate very strongly with the increases and decreases of output from our sun. Patterson notes that his findings corroborate those of "hundreds of other studies" conducted around the world.
However, as Patterson notes, solar output doesn't tell the whole story. Mr. Sun needs a little help to effect the kinds of climate change we've experienced in our planet's history, and CO2 didn't get the job:
Despite this clear and repeated correlation, the measured variations in incoming solar energy were, on their own, not sufficient to cause the climate changes we have observed in our proxies. In addition, even though the sun is brighter now than at any time in the past 8,000 years, the increase in direct solar input is not calculated to be sufficient to cause the past century's modest warming on its own. There had to be an amplifier of some sort for the sun to be a primary driver of climate change.
Indeed, that is precisely what has been discovered. In a series of groundbreaking scientific papers starting in 2002, Veizer, Shaviv, Carslaw, and most recently Svensmark et al., have collectively demonstrated that as the output of the sun varies, and with it, our star's protective solar wind, varying amounts of galactic cosmic rays from deep space are able to enter our solar system and penetrate the Earth's atmosphere. These cosmic rays enhance cloud formation which, overall, has a cooling effect on the planet. When the sun's energy output is greater, not only does the Earth warm slightly due to direct solar heating, but the stronger solar wind generated during these "high sun" periods blocks many of the cosmic rays from entering our atmosphere. Cloud cover decreases and the Earth warms still more.
Time to fire up the SUVs to avert another ice age?
The sun god Sol is pissed at humans for our claiming to have raised the temperature of the Earth, so now it’s going to show us exactly what is responsible for making the globe warm by turning off the utilities for a while. Maybe we should offer up more carbon credits in sacrifice?
I suggest that we put Al Gore, Obama, Hillary, Biden, and other interested liberals, on the next space shuttle to the sun. Let them go there and investigate, and get back to us on that.
Hey, I live there. Keep me posted.
That's carefully coded language for "cooling on Earth".