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Brighter sun adds to fears of climate change
The Sunday Times (UK) ^
| March 26, 2006
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Posted on 03/26/2006 8:29:27 AM PST by aculeus
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To: Tony O
Remember when the same bunch was screaming about the coming "New Ice Age" back in the 70's?
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posted on
03/26/2006 8:41:31 AM PST
by
Wombat101
(Islam: Turning everything it touches to Shi'ite since 632 AD...)
To: Wombat101
I remember in the '70's they were predicting an Ice Age.
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posted on
03/26/2006 8:41:43 AM PST
by
Tony O
(hibobbi!)
To: Dog Gone
They had better be careful. They might find out global warming is caused by the sun.Nah, they skillfully redirected that argument by making it cause for alarm that human-caused global warming could be made DRASTICALLY
WORSE!!!!!!
by any natural warming. No need to critically re-evaluate existing preconceptions that way.
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posted on
03/26/2006 8:42:15 AM PST
by
dirtboy
(Tagline under contruction. Fines doubled.)
To: Wombat101
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posted on
03/26/2006 8:42:23 AM PST
by
Tony O
(hibobbi!)
To: Psycho_Bunny
there's a difference between the sun actually getting brighter, and more sunlight reaching the earth Do you have a link? :-))
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posted on
03/26/2006 8:42:30 AM PST
by
PistolPaknMama
(Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
To: Publius6961
I need to make a new folder for archiving this kind of story; I can't decide if it should be labeled "Fearmongering", "Grantmongering" or "Neuroses"...
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posted on
03/26/2006 8:43:03 AM PST
by
Publius6961
(Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
To: Psycho_Bunny
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posted on
03/26/2006 8:43:55 AM PST
by
Zon
(Honesty outlives the lie, spin and deception -- It always has -- It always will.)
To: aculeus
IF the tree huggers are right, and man made pollution is melting the glaciers, Then the source of most of the pollution will soon be under water. That would be most of the major cities along both coasts. The "Blue" states would turn "Red".
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posted on
03/26/2006 8:44:16 AM PST
by
Fielding
(Sans Dieu Rien)
To: aculeus
and the environazis can't do shiiiite about it!!
Unless they pile into their Prius rocket ships and go to the Sun to fix it, hhhhhhehehehe....
To: rellimpank
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posted on
03/26/2006 8:46:37 AM PST
by
onedoug
To: Tony O
I remember in the '70's they were predicting an Ice Age. Yep. And, at my age, I really don't care if it gets hot or cold. Because I won't be here when it happens. But I sure like reading and hearing about all the hysteria while I'm still around!
To: aculeus
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posted on
03/26/2006 8:50:04 AM PST
by
i_dont_chat
(I defend the right to offend!)
To: ExtremeUnction
You're right, you'd think this was going to happen next week.
I've read that the models they use to predict these future catastrophies can't produce the known outcome of past global patterns when applied, even when they know the actual historic outcome!
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posted on
03/26/2006 8:56:46 AM PST
by
Tony O
(hibobbi!)
To: aculeus
The enhanced warming we have seen since the 1990s along with phenomena such as the widespread melting of glaciers could well be due to this increased intensity of sunlight compounding the effect of greenhouse gases, said Professor Martin Wild of the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Science in Zurich, Switzerland.alternatively, the brightness factor might be sufficient in itself, entirely negating the (already dubious) validity of the greenhouse gas model.
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posted on
03/26/2006 9:06:49 AM PST
by
King Prout
(many complain I am overly literal. this would not be a problem if so many were not under-precise)
To: PistolPaknMama
Do you have a link?Do a search on solar output. It varies plus or minus 0.05%, not the 6% differences they are seeing. Also, if the sunshine reaching some parts of the earth is increasing but it is decreasing over China, it would be hard to blame that on the sun's output. It would have to say, "Oh, it's daytime in China. It's time to get dimmer."
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posted on
03/26/2006 9:11:30 AM PST
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: Tony O
However, I did find one story that claimed the results were "admirable." What a load of hooey. They weren't honest enough to say they missed, not even that they were close.
How would you like a mortgage rate that was admirable? Not me. I'm sticking to my believe that any fluctuation in global temperature is normal and has very little, if any, to do with humans.
BTW - One of the science channels this weekend seems to claim that we will be in an ice age within about 20 years due to the stopping of the Gulf Stream. I wonder if this was the same bunch that predicted the ice age in the 1970's.
Doomed! We are all Doom!
To: SamAdams76
We're doomed I tell you, doomed!
Absolutely bears repeating.
It is a well established scientific fact that lightbulbs flare several times greater than normal just before they blow
The world will soon turn into a flying piece of ice. Just like Pluto. (and Daffy, of course).
Repent today.
Vote Democrat tomorrow.
Thank you.
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posted on
03/26/2006 9:21:38 AM PST
by
harrowup
(President Bush has the deal and he is calling Feingold et. al. to ante up or shut up)
To: Leo Carpathian
"Unless they pile into their Prius rocket ships and go to the Sun to fix it, hhhhhhehehehe...."
I heard they had planned to go at night.
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posted on
03/26/2006 9:25:32 AM PST
by
Laserman
To: aculeus
Is this 'global brightening?' -- I'm sure it was no more than a couple of years ago that this same crowd was claiming that the earth was experiencing 'global dimming!' And, of course, whether it is brightening or dimming, warming or cooling, raining or snowing, windy or calm, Algore will be there to explain it all to us.
To: aculeus
The sun is actually not significantly brighter. It appears brighter just as sounds appear louder when the person is stressed: anxiety over global warming. It is a maladjustment in bodily chemistry. The cure is to eat less cheese.
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posted on
03/26/2006 9:34:21 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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