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Sun-Caused Warming
IBD Editorials ^ | September 8, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

Posted on 09/08/2009 5:30:03 PM PDT by Kaslin

Climate Change: A team of international scientists has finally figured out why sunspots have a dramatic effect on the weather. It shows the folly of fearing the SUV while dismissing that thermonuclear furnace in the sky.


Mankind once worshiped the sun. Now the world studiously ignores it as nations prepare to hammer out a successor to the failed Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012, in Copenhagen in December. Something is indeed rotten in Denmark.

Our own government is committed to fighting climate change whether it be though Son of Kyoto or our own growth-capping, job-killing cap-and-trade legislation known as Waxman-Markey.

Despite the sun being the major source of all energy on earth, supporters of man-caused global warming have dismissed the sun's role in climate change. They say the historic 11-year solar cycle changes the amount of energy reaching the earth by about only 0.1% — not enough to account for temperature rises this century.

The Aug. 28 issue of the journal Science details how the scientific team led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), using a century's worth of data and three powerful computer models, figured out just how small changes in solar activity can trigger great changes in earth's climate.

The study found that chemicals in the stratosphere and sea surface temperatures during solar maximums act in a way that amplifies the sun's influence. The slight increase in solar energy in the peak production of sunspots is absorbed by stratospheric ozone, warming the air in the tropics where sunlight is most intense.

The additional energy also helps produce more ozone that absorbs even more solar energy. The increased sunlight causes a slight warming of ocean surface waters across the subtropical Pacific.

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To: patriciaruth

Here’s something to add to the discussion.

The Earth is actually farther away from the sun during the summer, and closer in the winter.

The ‘thing’ that makes the difference in our ‘weather’ is the tilt of the Earth, which varies the amount of atmosphere the sun’s rays have to penetrate.


21 posted on 09/08/2009 8:26:00 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Where's this tagline thing everyone keeps talking about?)
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To: UCANSEE2
The Earth is actually farther away from the sun during the summer, and closer in the winter.

Not down below!

22 posted on 09/08/2009 8:27:47 PM PDT by ColdWater
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To: Kaslin

I guess we should come up with a weapon that can damage the sun in order to prevent the destruction of the planet. /s


23 posted on 09/08/2009 8:38:39 PM PDT by NotSoModerate (Report dissenters to snitch@whitehouse.gov for a $4,500 tax credit)
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To: SERKIT
How much money can Algore raise by getting credits for claiming he can change the spots on the Sun?

Sun spot credits, he should have thought of that before carbon credits. Soon, he will be selling Ice Credits, to cure global cooling and I bet there would be idiots that would buy them.

24 posted on 09/08/2009 8:53:45 PM PDT by calex59 (Hope for a new job counts for creating a job! The dimwits are truly insane.)
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To: Kaslin
Sun-Caused Warming

Dog-caused manbiting!

25 posted on 09/08/2009 9:01:04 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Rebellion is not brewing. Frog is brewing.)
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To: Kaslin

I had a feeling the sun might be involved but I could just never prove it.


26 posted on 09/09/2009 2:40:16 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Kaslin

Anyone memo’d this to Gore and the other moronic global warming idiots?


27 posted on 09/09/2009 3:10:38 AM PDT by cranked
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To: beaversmom
My tag...

28 posted on 09/09/2009 3:30:51 AM PDT by WVKayaker (Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -Arthur C Clarke)
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To: beaversmom
I had a feeling the sun might be involved but I could just never prove it.

There is a pile of grant money available to prove the sun isn't involved. Facts aren't required.

29 posted on 09/09/2009 6:28:58 AM PDT by GBA
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