Looking like exotic space flowers, these vivid images reveal vagaries in a star's output of heat. The images help astronomers determine how natural changes in the sun's energy output influence global warming on Earth. (Staff photo by Jon Chase) Global warming is not so hot: 1003 was worse, researchers find By William J. Cromie Gazette Staff The heat and droughts of 2001 and 2002, and the unending winter of 2002-2003 in the Northeast have people wondering what on Earth is happening to the weather. Is there anything natural about such variability? To answer that question, researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian...
