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the sun is experiencing a solar max

Hmmm, can you say global warming? Think there might be a connection between a hotter sun and earth temps? Nahh! Algore couldn't be wrong, could he?

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"The Day the Earth Caught Fire (VHS, 1961)"

"Despite its melodramatic title, which carried on a '50s doomsday naming convention, this taut 1961 English science fiction thriller offers an object lesson in the power of story over special effects. When both the Soviets and the West detonate nuclear tests simultaneously, the seismic double whammy jolts the earth off its axis and onto a new orbit sending it fatally closer to the sun--a fate that writer-director-producer Val Guest views from the street-level perspective of its principal characters, rather than an off-world vantage point. The street in question, however, is London's Fleet Street, the venerable hub of its newspaper and tabloid publishers, and the hard-nosed reporters growing realization that their number is up carries its own stark punch. Edward Judd is Peter Stenning, a rugged, appropriately grim reporter, Leo McKern is tough but compassionate editor Bill Maguire, and Janet Munro is Stenning's love interest, in an elfin, sexy turn that's a striking contrast to her best-known turn in Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People. With an effects arsenal that consists largely of a spray bottle to apply beads of "sweat," Guest and his small but crack cast are surprisingly effective, and the cold war plot hook still works, thanks to its uncomfortable proximity to more contemporary environmental terrors." --Sam Sutherland

I used to be an amateur Solar observer, and if I'm remembering right, 99.9 percent of all the mass contained within the entire Solar System is in the Sun. Makes the "King of the Plannets"- Jupiter- look pretty puny.

Just FYI:

The Sun has a Thousand Faces--- Thread 3

Think there might be a connection between a hotter sun and earth temps? Nahh! Algore couldn't be wrong, could he?

Check out what Dr. Dewpoint at Intellicast has to say about the subject. (He tends to think the answer is yes, BTW) More specifically see IS THIS RECORD WARM WINTER A SURE SIGN OF GLOBAL WARMING?

A local solar physicist explained that the solar sunspot cycle is really 22 years with a magnetic reversal every 11 years. We are coming off the recent peak, which makes our present global cooling make sense. One of these cycles will not stop, the sun will cool slightly and stay cool for 100,000 years. It could be this cycle. You know what that would mean. Ice Age.

Or something as simple as pavement. Parking lots/streets/etc absorb heat all day long then radiate it back out. The effect is most noticable is cities, where there is the most concrete, and coincidentally, where they are measuring temperatures. I can observe this phenomena on my back patio in South Texas. Hot as a griddle all day long and warm for several hours after dark.

There are hundreds of variables. How can they even attempt to prove one thing is the leading cause.