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

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

[DBrow]

Holy moley, that sunspot average curve looks like a lacrosse stick, or some other sport stick, um, the name escapes me at the moment...

[FreedomNeocon]

Well THATS IT!

I demand Hagel and Biden get right on a non-binding resolution demanding a new direction for solar life cycles.

[ocr1]

ping

[r9etb]

Dr Solanki said that the brighter Sun and higher levels of "greenhouse gases", such as carbon dioxide, both contributed to the change in the Earth's temperature but it was impossible to say which had the greater impact.

Nor does it say whether one leads or lags the other....

[webboy45]

The great mystery is why the sun shines during daytime when there is plenty of light instead of nighttime when it would be better appreciated.

[adorno]

100 times larger that the earth

You're just slightly off on the comparative sizes...

The volume of the Sun is 1,299,400 times bigger than the volume of the Earth

The Sun's diameter is 864,938 miles (1,391,980 km). This is almost 10 times larger than the planet Jupiter and about 109 times as big as the Earth. The volume of the Sun is 1,299,400 times bigger than the volume of the Earth; about 1,300,000 Earths could fit inside the Sun

Source: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/sun/sunsize.shtml

[xusafflyer]

I demand they adopt a resolution that we invade and destroy the Sun, once and for all. Women, minorities, and children are obviously most affected by the wicked Sun.

[r9etb]

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

Indeed. Although the part of that story that really sticks in my mind is that his girlfriend wears a girdle....

[DBrow]

invade and destroy the Sun

Woudn't our troops burn up as they approach the sun? What body armor will they need?

[sanchmo]

Thanks for correcting a rather dumb mistake on my part.
Kinda furthers the argument a little better, dontcha think?

[DBrow]

Roger Waters has the key. He knows what to do.
He foresaw the problem and hid the answer in a song:



Little by little the night turns around.
Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn.
Lotuses lean on each other in yearning.
Under the eaves the swallow is resting.
Set the controls for the heart of the sun.

Over the mountain watching the watcher.
Breaking the darkness
Waking the grapevine.
One inch of love is one inch of shadow
Love is the shadow that ripens the wine.
Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun.

Witness the man who raves at the wall
Making the shape of his questions to Heaven.
Whether the sun will fall in the evening
Will he remember the lesson of giving?
Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun.

[Puckster]

The official end to the Mini-Ice-Age was 1835 which correlates nicely with the graph.

[DBrow]

Is there a graph that goes back to the Medieval Warm Period?

[OESY]

This revelation about global warming prompts the age-old question:
When the sun gets brighter, why do the Dems get dimmer?

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[adorno]

Kinda furthers the argument a little better, dontcha think?

Absolutely.

But you weren't far off if you had indicated relative sizes to be in diameters of the two bodies..

[TheDon]

A study by Swiss and German scientists suggests that increasing radiation from the sun is responsible for recent global climate changes.

They should have asked me. I figured this out some time ago...

[TheDon]

"It shows that there is enough happening on the solar front to merit further research. Perhaps we are devoting too many resources to correcting human effects on the climate without being sure that we are the major contributor."

HERESY! Dr. Burrows will suffer for these words!

[Chena]

Thanks for posting this article, Moseley. Bookmarking for later.

[IrishCatholic]

Shhhhh! Don't let facts confuse your emotions. Ban SUV's except for movie stars.

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

Global warming???? What a bunch of poppycock.