Brighter sun adds to fears of climate change

The Sunday Times (UK) ^ | March 26, 2006 | Unsigned

[aculeus]

A series of independent studies around the world show a significant rise in the amount of sunshine penetrating the atmosphere to be absorbed by the earth’s surface and turned into heat.

The research will concern climate researchers who are already predicting a rapid rise in global temperatures due to man-made emissions of so-called greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide.

“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.

Researchers will present their findings to the European Geophysical Union conference in Vienna next week.

They reverse a 30-year trend. Measurements of sunshine levels between 1960 and 1990 had shown a decrease in the amount of sunshine reaching the earth.

[Wombat101]

Remember when the same bunch was screaming about the coming "New Ice Age" back in the 70's?

[Tony O]

I remember in the '70's they were predicting an Ice Age.

[dirtboy]

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.

[Tony O]

Beat me to it!

[PistolPaknMama]

there's a difference between the sun actually getting brighter, and more sunlight reaching the earth

Do you have a link? :-))

[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"...

[Zon]

I caught that too.

[Fielding]

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".

[Leo Carpathian]

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....

[onedoug]

Good point.

[ExtremeUnction]

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!

[i_dont_chat]

This explains the recommendation of Dr. Edward Teller (director emeritus, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), "The Planet Needs a Sunscreen," Wall Street Journal, October 17, 1997.

http://www.ncpa.org/pi/enviro/envpd/pdenv125.html

[Tony O]

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!

[King Prout]

“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.

[Right Wing Assault]

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."

[Dutch Boy]

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!

[harrowup]

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.

[Laserman]

"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.

[Continental Soldier]

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.

[RightWhale]

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.