Posted on 11/25/2005 6:41:59 PM PST by writer33
This isn't funny. I'm scared to death, ch. :)HA!
You are truly to blame HITH. Start drinking water. :)
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=511&sid=5080155
Sunspot activity hits 1,000-year high
“We have to acknowledge that the Sun is in a changed state. It is brighter than it was a few hundred years ago, and this brightening started relatively recently – in the last 100 to 150 years. We expect it to have an impact on global warming,” he told swissinfo.
Last week Solanki, who is a professor at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, presented the findings at a conference of solar and stellar scientists in Hamburg, Germany.
His research team reached its conclusions after studying data from samples of ice collected by Swiss scientist Jürg Beer on an expedition to Greenland in 1991.
Most scientists acknowledge that greenhouse gases from fossil fuels have warmed the planet in past decades, but they have questioned whether a brighter Sun is also responsible for rising temperatures.
Global warming
Average global temperatures have increased by about 0.2 degrees Celsius over the past 20 years, and are widely believed to be responsible for new extremes in weather patterns across the world.
According to scientists, the Sun’s radiance has changed little during this period. But looking back over 1,150 years, Solanki found the Sun had never been as bright as in the past 60 years.
The indirect impact of more intense sunshine on the ozone layer and of solar activity on cloud cover may be affecting the climate more than the sunlight itself, he said.
“The change in solar brightness over the past 20 years is not enough to cause the observed changes in our climate. But the indirect effects may be larger, and the range of their influence is unclear, so more study is needed,” he added.
Sunspots
To see whether a brighter Sun is warming the planet, solar scientists have measured magnetic zones on the Sun’s surface, called sunspots.
Sunspots appear to intensify the Sun’s brightness and energy output, and their numbers are associated with climate, said Solanki, who is also managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany.
Looking back over several hundred years, Solanki’s team found that not only did a dearth of sunspots signal a cold period – sometimes for as long as 50 years – but they also discovered that the number of sunspots increased over the past century as the Earth’s climate grew steadily warmer.
“All in all, I think we are coming to a point where we acknowledge that both solar activity and greenhouse gases are important factors in the change in the Earth’s temperature,” he said.
| Composition of Earth's Atmosphere | |
|---|---|
| Nitrogen | 78.1% |
| Oxygen | 20.9% |
| Argon | 0.9% |
| Carbon dioxide, Methane, Rare (inert) gases | 0.1% |
From the table above we can see that approximately one-tenth of one precent of our atmosphere consists of the so-called green house gases plus the inert gases.
So these chicken littles want us to get horrified that as a percentage of the total atmosphere these represent 0.00038 percent. Worse yet that the overall CO2 increase of .00007 % of total atmosphere and as such will be the death of us all.
These so-called experts should stick to doing what they know best, letting the electronic cash register make change after they punch the fried chicken icon on the keyboard. Oh, and yes I'll have fries with mine.
I thought it was getting a little stuffy....
I feel so much better, C. For a while, I was trembling with fear, but thanks to your chart, you've straightened me out.
I guess I can go back to Burger King now. Well, that's if I can get it lowcarb. :)
Oh, my, God. Now I'm terrified. Thanks, NAH. There goes the rest of my weekend.
:)
Did they test the Arctic ice? It is a brave conclusion to declare that 'at no point' in the past 650,000 years levels of CO2 were lower. Did they test ice that was frozen for each of those 650,000 years? How do we know if the Anarctic ice that they tested from the Anarctic that froze over 650,000 years ago didn't contain acid from rain that would decrease the CO2? These idiots argue over what happened yesterday and I am supposed to believe them when they go back 650,000 years????? Get real......
Yep. You better run down to McDonalds while you still have the chance, B.
Did they test the Arctic ice? It is a brave conclusion to declare that 'at no point' in the past 650,000 years levels of CO2 were lower. Did they test ice that was frozen for each of those 650,000 years? How do we know if the Anarctic ice that they tested from the Anarctic that froze over 650,000 years ago didn't contain acid from rain that would decrease the CO2? These idiots argue over what happened yesterday and I am supposed to believe them when they go back 650,000 years????? Get real......
OK!
...and the 4.5 Billion 'newbies' added to the population since then, please 'off yourselves' immediately!
Reagan80
LOL! That's EXACTLY what the "progressives" want us to do. Go back to living in caves and eating roots and berries.
It's so scary, eg. :)
So these chicken littles want us to get horrified that as a percentage of the total atmosphere Carbon dioxide represents 0.00038 percent. Worse yet that the overall CO2 increase of .00007 % of total atmosphere and as such will be the death of us all.
There, that's better.
Carbon dioxide is the principal "greenhouse" gas thought to be driving global warming.
DDD's Rule Of Media Bias # 27: The use of the passive voice in a news story is usually a sign of bias. It allows the writer to make an unsubstantiated claim read like an established fact.
gasp....
The sad part about it is that most of us probably could go back to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle if we had to. It's the PETA people and the virulent environmentalists and vegetarians who would probably do the most moaning about what they had in "the good old days". (some of them sneak Big Macs I suspect)
Now I might be able to enjoy the rest of my weekend. You're a gem, C.
:)
Stop denying what you know to be true.
:)
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