“If nothing else, we have certainly learned recently that planets undergo changes in their mean temperature, and while we can easily blame human activity here on the Earth, blaming humans for the recent warming on Mars and Neptune would be an astronomical stretch, to say the least.”
“The correlation between solar irradiance and Neptune’s brightness was nearly perfect; so was the correlation between changes on Earth and solar output,”
Exactly. The “Global Warming” movement has said that there was no connection between the sun’s brightness and the earth’s temperature. An obvious lie. This proves that they lied.
“When the sun is more energetic and putting out more energy, the Earth tends to warm up, and when the sun cools down, so does the Earth,”
Well duh.
The blindingly obvious.
However, how many Enviro-wankers will go into the keening respone of “It’s all a government coverup” or “you must be funded by big oil”, and totally disregard the evidence?
A quote from the referenced paper:
"Low formal statistical significance does not mean the correlations we find are in fact spurious, only that we cannot demonstrate otherwise."
So the correlations they describe in the paper could very well be -- spurious. Meaning basically nothing more than coincidence.
And that's what the AUTHORS themselves wrote.
What an inconvenient truth.
The data.
or
The plots.
We can talk about correlations or lack there of until we are blue in the face but the data will tell the tale. Hopefully some techie-Freeper has the necessary connections.
For ME, the most revealing part of these stories of warming on other planets correlating with changes in solar irradiance is that they all collect so much less power from the Sun than Earth does... Mars (~1.5x the distance) gets only about half as much radiation as Earth. I haven’t looked at the other planets to compare, but it is quite remarkable to me that temperature changes/ weather changes/ have been detected on so many of them, apparently due to the changing solar radiation, despite the inverse-square relationship dictating a smaller amount of radiation from Sol - and yet that relatively small amount getting smaller still affects their climate!
Someday, someday, the global alarmists will be forced to revisit their models to account for what is quite apparent now to be the Sun’s “greater than expected” influence on Earth’s temperature.
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No tenure for these guys.
-PJ
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