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Harold Ambler says:
I contend in my book that a new Space Race between Russia and the U.S., this one regarding solar variability’s effects on Earth’s ocean-atmosphere system, is taking place largely out of public view. Here’s a paragraph from the chapter “The Quiet Sun”:
In 1990, James Hansen wrote that “comparisons of available data show that solar variability will not counteract greenhouse warming.” Conversely, in 2009, he wrote, “it is likely that the sun is an important factor in climate variability.” As Hansen moved toward this shift in perspective, a Russian space program scientist had come out swinging, boldly predicting that Hansen’s forecasted warming during the next half-century would simply not come to pass.
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Being in Northern Vermont, I was cheering on the gradual warming of our hemisphere, but I’ll adapt to whatever comes along. Dr. Jerry Pournelle has been a rational and reasoned skeptic for many years and has recently taken up the topic again with his readers.
His questions and assertions are worth reading at Chaos Manor.