"Keith nuttle" wrote in message
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Charles Momsen wrote:
"jeff" wrote in message
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Or c. The "paper" referenced was not published in a peer reviewed
journal and thus has no credibility.

http://www.nizkor.org/features/falla...authority.html


"""Yes, the sun can't be responsible for warming :
http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2006/brightness.shtml (peer reviewed,
no less!)

"Our results imply that, over the past century, climate change due to
human influences must far outweigh the effects of changes in the Sun's
brightness," says Wigley.

Brightness variations are the result of changes in the amount of the
Sun's surface covered by dark sunspots and by bright points called
faculae.

Data collected from radiometers on U.S. and European spacecraft show that
the Sun is about 0.07 percent brighter in years of peak sunspot activity,
such as around 2000, than when spots are rare (as they are now, at the
low end of the 11-year solar cycle). Variations of this magnitude are too
small to have contributed appreciably to the accelerated global warming
observed since the mid-1970s, according to the study, and there is no
sign of a net increase in brightness over the period."""

But yet:

http://www.oar.noaa.gov/spotlite/arc...unclimate.html
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It is obvious that the sun has no effect on the temperature of the surface
of the earth. That the reason that there are no seasonal changes in the
temperature and the temperature of the earth is constant from the north
pole through the equator to the south pole. At any point in time the
earth temperature is constantly between 0 and about 110 degrees.

Any book on astronomy will tell you there are variations in the distance
from the sun as the earth revolves around the sun. It is a known fact
that the poles have shifted as the earth wiggles and spins on its axis. I
believe that the sun also expanse and contracts in a well established
cycle.

Shall we discuss how constant the moon revolves around the earth?

I'd rather discuss that there is no such thing as a preferred reference
frame, the speed of light is constant for all observers, a changing electric
field creates a changing magnetic field, but most of all: The Michelson
Morley experiment "proves" ether does not exist yet the Lense Thirring
effect (measured by satellites) shows the rotating earth drags
space-time(the ether) around with it - which would explain the
Michelson-Morley "null" result.