Posted on 12/20/2002 3:38:20 PM PST by PeaceBeWithYou
The question I have is what, if anything, has changed in our atmosphere to alter the way light filters to us from the sun.
My own anecdotal experience is that the I perceive the sun as whiter and the sunlight as harsher. I aslo wonder about the Earth's own electro-magnetic fields.......
I have read reports of marked increases in various black colored bird populations:such as crows and grackles in North America.
Does that have anything to do with this observation . . .? . . . I remember that Tonto (Kemosabi's pal) could tell time by the sun. I tried to do that, but I could not see the numbers. Is that because the sun is now whiter and the extra light is blocking the numbers? Can Tonto still tell time by looking at the sun? . . . probably not . . . pity.
SUVs must GO!
This article at SEPP implies that the IPCC generated assumptions to get the results they wanted:
It appears the IPCC apparently is not above a few ad-hoc changes to their reports as well:
http://www.sepp.org/keyissue.html
The IPCC Controversy: In May 1996, unannounced and possibly unauthorized changes to the latest United Nations report on climate change touched off a firestorm of controversy within the scientific community. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the science group that advises the United Nations on the global warming issue, presented the draft of its most recent report in December 1995, and it was approved by the delegations. When the printed report appeared in May 1996, however, it was discovered that substantial changes and deletions had been made to the body of the report to make it "conform to the Policymakers Summary." The clandestine changes put a spin on the report's conclusions that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." Lead authors of the crucial--and doctored--Chapter 8, dealing with the detection and attribution of climate change, have since backed off from this conclusion and now admit that it may take 10 years or more before any human influence on climate can be detected. For commentary and letters on this issue, see IPCC.
The local institute srudies that specifically. The Aurora, plasma fields. They have satellites, sounding rockets, sensors from here to Finland, and more PhDs than would fit in a city bus on the way to a junketconference in Madrid. If there were changes in the mag field, they would be highly incentivized to say something.
Scientists are observing the sun as never before. They have sun satellites, sun sensors, solar tomagraphs, and many are making sun science their career. The sun has not been overlooked; the sun is better known than ever before. Meteorologists use sun data in their climate models. Always have, always will.
Title:
Speaker:
Ms. Sallie Baliunas
Senior Astrophysicist
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Date:
Monday, April 17, 3:30 pm
Ben Bandy Conference Center
Center for Applied Energy Research
Abstract:
Recent evidence for the sun's influence on climate change comes from modern measurement programs and computer simulations of the climate. Not only correlations between solar variability and climate change but also mechanisms underlying them are being studied.
One possible mechanism driving climate change is total irradiance change of the sun. Satellite measurements for nearly two decades show that the sun's total irradiance changes in step with the 11-year sunspot cycle.
Solar variations are generally only crudely predictable, thus leaving us with direct measurements over too short and interval to study properly the solar influence on climate change over time scales of centuries.
But studies of sun-like stars can yield information on solar variability over such time scales. At Mount Wilson Observatory the surface magnetic activity of sun-like stars has been monitored for over 30 years. These records detail the counterpart of the 11-year sunspot cycle in stars close in mass and age to the sun. In parallel, observations of brightness changes in sun-like stars have been made for over a decade. Considered together, these records on surface magnetism and brightness changes in sun-like stars yield estimates of solar variations over centuries.
Those estimated brightness variations have been studied in computer simulations of the climate which suggest that the solar irradiance change explains at least 50% of the variance of the changes in global surface temperature over the last 100 years.
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