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No, climate change isn’t driven by solar activity and lunar phases
PolitiFact ^ | November 29, 2022 | By Andy Nguyen

Posted on 11/30/2022 6:02:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The consensus within the scientific community is that human activity fuels global climate change, but a video clip shared on Instagram on Nov. 13 featuring a known climate skeptic claims people aren’t to blame.

In the video, Piers Corbyn, an astrophysicist, said heat waves are caused by "certain circulation patterns" from solar activity and phases of the moon.

"These things are dictated by solar activity and the moon," Corbyn said in the video, an excerpt from his 2010 appearance on Russia Today, a Russian state-funded news channel. "They have nothing to do with mankind."

He accused people who say human activity contributes to climate change of "just trying to make money.”

Our ruling:

An Instagram post says climate change is "dictated by solar activity and the moon" and has "nothing to do with mankind."

Scientists found that the sun and moon do affect Earth’s climate, but their influence is small and does not account for the rapid planetary climate changes of the last several decades.

An overwhelming number of scientists and scientific organizations agree that human activity significantly affects climate change.

We rate this claim False.

(Excerpt) Read more at politifact.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Miscellaneous; Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: censorship; climatechange; climatechangehoax; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; politifact; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 11/30/2022 6:02:10 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Without evidence, “An overwhelming number of scientists and scientific organizations agree that human activity significantly affects climate change.”


2 posted on 11/30/2022 6:05:19 AM PST by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
An overwhelming number of scientists and scientific organizations agree that human activity significantly affects climate change.

That is great evidence...........NOT!....................

3 posted on 11/30/2022 6:08:57 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
This graph contains everything ya need ta know about globull warming. The small red hump on the far right is the Modern Warm Period we've been in for roughly two centuries. It's just a normal trend relative to the other warm periods for the past 7,000 years. Whatever causes theses waves, it's nothing to get excited about. If anything, we should be grateful we live in a warming period instead of one of the cooling periods.


4 posted on 11/30/2022 6:09:02 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Lol. The Sun has little effect on the Earths’ climate you guys. Very little effect except for being the singular reason for a life sustaining climate.


5 posted on 11/30/2022 6:09:23 AM PST by KobraKai
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To: BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan

Here in SW Ohio, we were covered by a 2-mile thick glacier.

Eventually, it melted back to the Artic region....thanks to humans - right?


6 posted on 11/30/2022 6:15:06 AM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: KobraKai

“Lol. The Sun has little effect on the Earths’ climate you guys. Very little effect except for being the singular reason for a life sustaining climate.“

Ppppppppttt!…. Details, DETAILS!…who needs ‘em!

Hey man, the (politician-paid) SCIENTISTS say it’s ALL us!

You need to wake up and live in fear and guilt, like our “leaders” tell you to be!

Pay more taxes; freeze and starve yourself in winter; Get rid of that A/C unit!

Remember… “IT’S FOR THE CHILDREN!”..

(Isn’t it all ridiculous though! Lol!)


7 posted on 11/30/2022 6:15:58 AM PST by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

MMMMM, Earth is the hottest it’s been in 12,000 years, a new study confirms...... so which activity by man 12,000 years ago caused this spike? Or, just maybe, possibly it’s the Sun..... MMMMMM


8 posted on 11/30/2022 6:17:55 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Scientists found

An overwhelming number of scientists and scientific organizations agree


Absolute BS! It is the Sun and gamma rays, stupid. The rest is absolute non-science (political science) noise.

9 posted on 11/30/2022 6:19:12 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: KobraKai
Lol. The Sun has little effect on the Earths’ climate you guys.

The effects of the sun can be felt in Winter and Summer. Duh. "Little effect" my lily white ass!

This is why no one believes these so-called "climate scientists" ... it's all political and they're making it all up. They've been trying to gaslight the world for 30+ years now.

Remember when we had less than 12 years to save the planet according to Algore? yeah, that was 30+ years ago now and we're still here!

10 posted on 11/30/2022 6:19:33 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I believe in science. But I couldn’t find the science. But, when I looked for the money, then I found the science.


11 posted on 11/30/2022 6:22:51 AM PST by vortigern
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good weather doesn’t mean the climate is changing ,LOL


12 posted on 11/30/2022 6:26:31 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: vortigern

They (US Gov/NASA) are lying about Milankovich cycles, saying they are too long term and can’t account for “recent” rises in temperature.

What the globalist marxists hide is that we are in the middle of coming “out” of a glacial cycle and warming will not be consistent but instead will have increasing periods of fits and starts since the planet has its own wonderful feedback mechanisms. Much of the glaciation happened little by little then WHAM, Ice-world. We are in Nice-World now.


13 posted on 11/30/2022 6:28:27 AM PST by epluribus_2
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To: epluribus_2

https://climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-climate/2949/why-milankovitch-orbital-cycles-cant-explain-earths-current-warming/#:~:text=Milankovitch%20cycles%20include%20the%20shape,is%20pointed%20(its%20precession).


14 posted on 11/30/2022 6:29:17 AM PST by epluribus_2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

consensus within the scientific community
s/b...................consensus community


15 posted on 11/30/2022 6:31:31 AM PST by sasquatch
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To: KobraKai

I suggest we ship all the d-bags who claim humans change Earth’s climate to Mercury...just to prove them wrong!


16 posted on 11/30/2022 6:32:08 AM PST by gr8eman (Abortion! It's just a murderous ghoul thing!)
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To: vortigern

Yes...the fact that humans can only see 5% of the light from the Sun causes the BS to be propagated.


17 posted on 11/30/2022 6:33:48 AM PST by gr8eman (Abortion! It's just a murderous ghoul thing!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Now if we can get little Andy to tell us what the hell happened to the Ice Age. He’s a Vietnamese expert, he should know. I’ll bet it had something to do with Wooly Mammoth flatulence and Flintstone mobiles.


18 posted on 11/30/2022 6:38:49 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out. Remember that Snowflakes!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Take away the sun or the moon and see what happens.


19 posted on 11/30/2022 6:39:44 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The geometry formed by earth’s orbital precession around the sun, combined with the earth’s tilt and earth’s unequal distribution of continents DOES create our 100,000 year ice cycles. There is also a roughly 50 year cycle of solar flare cycles which heat and cool earth’s atmosphere, as well as driving ocean circulation and resulting weather. In addition there is an 800 year delay after naturally occurring warming periods before sequestered carbon rises from ocean depths into the atmosphere. Then we can talk about the natural release of ocean hydrates (carbon) when oceans cool.


20 posted on 11/30/2022 6:39:58 AM PST by nagant
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