Posted on 08/28/2009 9:45:03 AM PDT by tricky_k_1972
Well, no. OK, it does account for about 200 terawatts, but there's also 30 terawatts geothermal plus a bit of nuke power that never came from the sun. The science staff must have hired some liberal arts major to do their writing maybe.
But if climate change is not our fault how will the liberals guilt us into following their agen.....oh...I see what you did there! ;-)
Re the headline:
I learned this in grade school in a one rrom school in rural Wisconsin between 1947 and 1952.
Perhaps not all the fancy words and explanaitons, but the same data as the headline.
Global warming or Global cooling cannot be controlled by man- even tho the Environazis think they are in charge.
maybe if enough son’s peddled really fast in the right direct... oh never mind !!! lol
L.O.L.
Must be a right-wing nut. Would someone from the NSF please inform these space.com rednecks that human greed alone alters the weather.
Send Algore by rocket to fix it. Immediately!
“this yellow orb in the sky affects our climate.”
“Can’t we just turn it off during daylight hours? Seems like a waste to leave it on all the time!” Al Gore
>>a bit of nuke power that never came from the sun
Well, actually all of the elements that feed that power originally did come from either this sun or the one before it, as massive atoms need a star to nova to create them.
Arguments as well at www.solarcycle24.com - both pro and con. Neither site buys the entire Man-released CO2 = global warming claptrap either, but the real cause of the last 250 years of global warming remains unknown right now.
Our little sun may have a bit of heavy elements --well make that ionized nuclei in the plasma-- but but like our heavy stuff they all came in from the neighbors. Of course, way back when the package arrived the earth and all the other planets were just a big 'sun ring' so in that sense I guess everyone's right but me ]-(
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“The solar cycle does not have as great an effect on Earth’s climate as the El Nino cycle.”
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I am very skeptical of their interpretation here, though I will have to read the journal article. I would rather that they had used the phrase “on Earth’s short to medium term weather” instead.
I believe that ALL the climate is driven by Solar effects, and that even the Ocean Circulation patterns that give rise to the Nino/Nina events are akin to resonances in a complex system of driven, coupled harmonic oscillators.
This causes climate change.
It DOES??
Are they SURE?
Who knew!
Golly!
I wonder just HOW all that SUN heat manages to PENETRATE the Earth's crust to MELT rock and create VOLCANOES!!
The George Carlin bit comes immediately to mind: “That’s near-fetched, Jim!”
Small fluctuations in solar activity, large influence on the climate
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres | Aug 27, 2009 | Unknown
Posted on 08/27/2009 11:55:39 AM PDT by decimon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2325921/posts
...but pinging this one also, regardless.
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May be but I'm sure you've seen the sun spot and "global" temperature graphs which shows a passable correlation between the two, no? And why is it the last few articles posted here completely ignore solar wind? You know that stuff that apparently waxes and wanes with the sun spots? Until recently articles were taking a hard look at the attack on our magnetic shield by the sun's variation in solar wind bombardment. I don't get it...
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