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![]() Every reputable scientist knows that we are the prime contributors to global warming. If you know anything about the subject, claiming that because it's warmer or colder in a specific spot, you would know that's a fallacious argument. -- "j" ganz Wrong Jon. The Sun is a million times more massive than the earth. It is well proven that tiny fluxuation in its output directly effect weather on earth. When lies are repeated often enough people like you will believe them like religion without question. Use your head and think about it. Do some research in SUN OUTPUT WEATHER I Googled that just now and found this: How can you doubt the Sun is the most significant factor? http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...ut_030320.html Sun's Output Increasing in Possible Trend Fueling Global Warming By Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer posted: 02:30 pm ET 20 March 2003 In what could be the simplest explanation for one component of global warming, a new study shows the Sun's radiation has increased by .05 percent per decade since the late 1970s. The increase would only be significant to Earth's climate if it has been going on for a century or more, said study leader Richard Willson, a Columbia University researcher also affiliated with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The Sun's increasing output has only been monitored with precision since satellite technology allowed necessary observations. Willson is not sure if the trend extends further back in time, but other studies suggest it does. "This trend is important because, if sustained over many decades, it could cause significant climate change," Willson said. In a NASA-funded study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, Willson and his colleagues speculate on the possible history of the trend based on data collected in the pre-satellite era. "Solar activity has apparently been going upward for a century or more," Willson told SPACE.com today. Significant component Further satellite observations may eventually show the trend to be short-term. But if the change has indeed persisted at the present rate through the 20th Century, "it would have provided a significant component of the global warming the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports to have occurred over the past 100 years," he said. That does not mean industrial pollution has not been a significant factor, Willson cautioned. Scientists, industry leaders and environmentalists have argued for years whether humans have contributed to global warming, and to what extent. The average surface temperature around the globe has risen by about 1 degree Fahrenheit since 1880. Some scientists say the increase could be part of natural climate cycles. Others argue that greenhouse gases produced by automobiles and industry are largely to blame. Willson said the Sun's possible influence has been largely ignored because it is so difficult to quantify over long periods. Confounding efforts to determine the Sun's role is the fact that its energy output waxes and wanes every 11 years. This solar cycle, as it is called, reached maximum in the middle of 2000 and chieved a second peak in 2002. It is now ramping down toward a solar minimum that will arrive in about three years. Connections Changes in the solar cycle -- and solar output -- are known to cause short-term climate change on Earth. At solar max, Earth's thin upper atmosphere can see a doubling of temperature. It swells, and denser air can puff up to the region of space where the International Space Station orbits, causing increased drag on the hip and forcing more frequent boosts from space shuttles. |
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