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To: Flightdeck

We’re just too dumb to understand. The idea that the sun affects our temperature is so primitive.


10 posted on 05/26/2011 2:09:40 PM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: lacrew
You almost got it right. Our understanding of how the sun affects the temperature is primitive. Studies purporting that a link actually exists that the sun actually does influence our temperature have repeatedly been found incorrect.

Recently there was the 10Be proxy study as cited in:

Beryllium 10 and climate (a Wattsupwiththat blog publication)

However, the 10Be proxy theory was promptly shot down with claims of unrepresentative sampling, and variation of deposition. That was subsequently backed up with claims of lack of statistical support from observation of sun-like stars. The solar irradiance theory ultimately being dismissed when correlation between sun-spot minima and ultraviolet irradiance was found to be a factor of three times to five times lower than expected to produce a significant global warming contribution based on present-day climate.

See: Climate: The Vanishing Solar Factor (a Space Daily publication)

29 posted on 05/26/2011 5:03:06 PM PDT by raygun
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