The truth about global warming - it's the Sun that's to blame

{London] TELEGRAPH ^ | July 17, 2004 | Michael Leidig and Roya Nikkhah

[Moseley]

Man is not causing global warming

[RockinRight]

We must enact solar-output control methods now! BAN THE SUN!

[EagleUSA]

Don't worry -- the liberals will put a tax on sunlight -- that will fix the problem.

[Always Right]

Average global temperatures have increased by about 0.2 deg Celsius over the past 20 years and are widely believed to be responsible for new extremes in weather patterns.

Like our non-existant hurricane season....

[Domandred]

[tractorman]

And in other news, satan announces that hell is getting hotter.

[massgopguy]

A representative from MASSPIRG was on the Todd Feinberg Show on WRKO last Friday. He asked her what percentage of greenhouse gas was generated by man. She told him that he "did not need to know" the figure. She then feigned having a problem hearing him over noise in her office, hung up and never called back. That is because when you question these people on their facts, with opposing facts, they hang up.

[capt. norm]

I think we should send Al Gore (self-proclaimed expert) on a space mission to the surface of the sun and let him write another stupid book when (and if) he returns.

Problem solved!

[edcoil]

It is all Americans fault the sun is burning brighter - they put all that stuff in space and their cars have caused the exhaust to now reach the sun causing it to burn brighter to burn the smoke away.

[Jeffrey_D.]

Time for Intergalactic sunscreen. It's gotta be big

[Michael.SF.]

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

It's time we aimed fire hoses at the sun.

[Always Right]

"Perhaps we are devoting too many resources to correcting human effects on the climate without being sure that we are the major contributor."

[Incorrigible]

Related thread:

NASA News Release: Evidence for Recent Climate Change on Mars [Global Warming on Mars]

 

[Ben Mugged]

Think this will have an impact on the Academy Awards committee?

[KellyAdmirer]

"Scientists are at a loss to explain these inter-galactic disturbances. Dr. Hans Zarkov, formerly with NASA, is the only one to offer a possible explanation."

[doc30]

He says that the increased solar brightness over the past 20 years has not been enough to cause the observed climate changes but believes that the impact of more intense sunshine on the ozone layer and on cloud cover could be affecting the climate more than the sunlight itself.

Dr Bill Burrows, a climatologist and a member of the Royal Meteorological Society, welcomed Dr Solanki's research. "While the established view remains that the sun cannot be responsible for all the climate changes we have seen in the past 50 years or so, this study is certainly significant," he said.

Notice how the default position for climate researchers is that man is responsible for global warming and that increased solar output is insufficient to explain glibal warming. I would like to know how much solar variation has been included in all the modeling work done. It astounds me that physical observation is trumped by political inference.

[rogue yam]

"That's Lord Sun to you, Earthling!"

[rbookward]

Brings to mind a science fiction story titled "Inconstant Moon".

The unexpected happens. Get used to it.

[sanchmo]

Next the UN will propose a multi-trillion-dollar program to build a much larger one of these in space: