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Brighter sun adds to fears of climate change
The Sunday Times (UK) ^ | March 26, 2006 | Unsigned

Posted on 03/26/2006 8:29:27 AM PST by aculeus

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1 posted on 03/26/2006 8:29:30 AM PST by aculeus
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The sun always appears brighter to me after a GOP victory. Looks like this too is Bush's fault.


2 posted on 03/26/2006 8:31:15 AM PST by inkling
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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.

I guess it doesn't occur to them that the increased solar activity could be the source of the warming, instead of the increase in CO2 due to human activity.

Nah, that would go against current scientific dogma. And it's a lot harder to get grants to study a natural phenomenon that can't be countered.

3 posted on 03/26/2006 8:31:15 AM PST by dirtboy (Tagline under contruction. Fines doubled.)
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They had better be careful. They might find out global warming is caused by the sun.


4 posted on 03/26/2006 8:31:34 AM PST by Dog Gone
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To: aculeus

If this is true, which I have a problem with, it will all be laid at the feet of George Bush .... nevermind China and India.


5 posted on 03/26/2006 8:31:39 AM PST by CurlyBill (Democratic Party = Surrender Party)
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To: aculeus

"Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun, and I'll do the next best thing: block it out!"--C. Montgomery Burns


6 posted on 03/26/2006 8:32:50 AM PST by Loyalist (Dissonance And Disrespect: http://dissonanceanddisrespect.blogspot.com)
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Yes! And aren't increased CO2 levels that cause the greenhouse effect supposed to increase cloudiness that traps the heat? I'm getting confused, there should be less sunshine instead of more!
7 posted on 03/26/2006 8:34:28 AM PST by Tony O (hibobbi!)
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To: aculeus

Weird, that orb which warms our planet has an effect on the temperature of this planet... Imagine that!


8 posted on 03/26/2006 8:35:00 AM PST by jcb8199
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Don't forget that it was our fault all those iceages started and ended (you know, the ones where there were gigantic, billion-ton sheets of ice sliding around on the continents, carving valleys and whatnot, that melted somehow...).


9 posted on 03/26/2006 8:36:19 AM PST by jcb8199
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To: aculeus
People are supposed to take crap like this serious? 

These idiots can't even square the title with the first sentence:  there's a difference between the sun actually getting brighter, and more sunlight reaching the earth.

10 posted on 03/26/2006 8:36:19 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny
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To: inkling

The sun always appears brighter to me after a GOP victory. Looks like this too is Bush's fault.


Me too. You know I NEVER worry about the sun being brighter. I mean who in the world is worried about this. I can't even imagine anyone I hang out with worrying about this. I could just imagine my friends sitting around drinking beer and one of us would say "you know guys, I am really fearful of the brighter sun." Can you imagine? First of all we would probably spit out our beer, second we would think he would need a urinalysis and then third obviously he would need more alcoholic beverages to get himself back to normal again. This has to be the craziest story to date on FREEPERS.


11 posted on 03/26/2006 8:36:39 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: Dog Gone
--that just might explain the shrinkage of the polar ice caps on Mars, also-
12 posted on 03/26/2006 8:37:32 AM PST by rellimpank (Don't believe anything about firearms or explosives stated by the mass media---NRABenefactor)
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To: dirtboy

"I guess it doesn't occur to them that the increased solar activity could be the source of the warming, instead of the increase in CO2 due to human activity."

It also doesn't occur to them that, based upon other, scientific research, New York City (for example) was under a two-mile thick sheet of ice 12,000 years ago.

Now, if that isn't proof enough that global warming is a natural phenomenon independant of human activity, then nothing is. We're not dealing with just science, we're dealing with a science-as-religion, on this issue. Logic and "science" have nothing to do with it; it's all about controlling behavior.


13 posted on 03/26/2006 8:37:35 AM PST by Wombat101 (Islam: Turning everything it touches to Shi'ite since 632 AD...)
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Solar output links:

http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/space/solterr/output.html

http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2005/09/sunwarm.html

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sun_output_030320.html


14 posted on 03/26/2006 8:38:00 AM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: inkling
Brighter sun adds to fears of climate change

Has the world gone all nuts? Climate change is now a cause of "fear"?

The only constant that can be said of climate is its constant and extreme variability. Hundreds of millions of years of it, now.

Me? I will fear and cower in the dark over sunrise and sunset. Traumatic, they are!

And then there's the biggie... Meteor strikes! Does everyone appreciate the number and size of meteor strikes throughout the world (that we know about)? Hundreds!

Some of those impact craters are a hundred miles across!

Oh my God! Horrors!
Woe is me!

BRB. I need more coffee...

15 posted on 03/26/2006 8:38:13 AM PST by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: Dog Gone
We could always atomize a sun blocker with SPF200 and disperse it in the upper atmosphere, no?

}:^P
16 posted on 03/26/2006 8:38:56 AM PST by Roccus
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To: Wombat101
It's Dogma to them, don't question it, just believe!
17 posted on 03/26/2006 8:39:08 AM PST by Tony O (hibobbi!)
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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.

When the solar storm activity decreases again the amount of sunshine reaching the earth.

18 posted on 03/26/2006 8:39:11 AM PST by Mike Darancette (In the Land of the Blind the one-eyed man is king.)
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The sun is getting dimmer...no wait, it's getting brighter! The earth is getting cooler...no wait, it's getting hotter! The world is getting overpopulated...no wait, not enough people are being born and we will soon be a civilization of nothing but old people! Oh no! The earth is running out of food and everybody is going to starve to death...no wait, people are getting too much food and now everybody's too fat!

The world is running out of oil but I can't get to work on time unless I leave an hour early on account of all the traffic jams. All the jobs in America have gone overseas but everybody has a HELP WANTED and you can't get decent service because everybody is understaffed. The housing bubble has popped but I still can't find a house under $300,000. We are in a drought but the sump pump in my basement is still working overtime pumping out all that rainwater. We are in the worst economy ever but I still can't find a parking space at a shopping mall because everybody's out shopping and I still can't find a table in a restaurant on a Friday night without having to wait two hours.

We're doomed I tell you, doomed!

19 posted on 03/26/2006 8:39:37 AM PST by SamAdams76 (Need a tree census in Maine)
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To: Tony O

Pretty much.


20 posted on 03/26/2006 8:39:59 AM PST by Wombat101 (Islam: Turning everything it touches to Shi'ite since 632 AD...)
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