Global Warming: Its The Sun

[Christina]

NewsmaxTwo new reports cast doubt on the manmade global warming theory and instead point to another cause for the recent warming of Earth — changes in the sun.One report from National Geographic News asserts, "Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet’s recent climate changes have a natural — and not a human-induced — cause, according to one scientist’s controversial theory.”Data from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey mission in 2005 disclosed that the carbon dioxide "ice caps” near Mars’ south pole had been shrinking for three consecutive summers.Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the shrinking provides evidence that the current warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun, according to the National Geographic article."The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars,” he said. "Manmade greenhouse warming has made a small contribution to the warming seen on Earth in recent years but it cannot compete with the increase in solar irradiance.”The other report offers a mechanism behind the changes in the sun — variations in its magnetic field.Compiled by scientists at the Danish National Space Center, it maintains that the Earth’s climate is strongly influenced by cosmic rays from exploded stars.The cosmic rays help make ordinary clouds, and high levels of rays and cloudiness cool the planet, while lower levels of radiation lead to milder temperatures, according to the Danish report, which is cited by Marc Morano, communications director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, on the committee’s Web site."Cosmic ray intensities — and therefore cloudiness — keep changing because the sun’s magnetic field varies in its ability to repel cosmic rays coming from the galaxy before they reach the Earth,” the Danish report by Henrik Svensmark, head of the Space Center, explains.Whenever the sun’s magnetic field was weak, cosmic ray intensities were high and the climate cooled, most recently in the little ice age that climaxed 300 years ago.Several scientists cited in the report believe that changes in the Earth’s climate are linked to "the journey of the sun and the Earth through the Milky Way Galaxy. They blame the icehouse episodes on encounters with bright spiral arms, where cosmic rays are most intense.”

 

[Christina]

Research said to prove that greenhouse gases cause climate change has been condemned as a sham by scientists.A United Nations report earlier this year said humans are very likely to be to blame for global warming and there is "virtually no doubt" it is linked to man's use of fossil fuels.But other climate experts say there is little scientific evidence to support the theory.In fact global warming could be caused by increased solar activity such as a massive eruption.Their argument will be outlined on Channel 4 this Thursday in a programme called The Great Global Warming Swindle raising major questions about some of the evidence used for global warming.Ice core samples from Antarctica have been used as proof of how warming over the centuries has been accompanied by raised CO2 levels.But Professor Ian Clark, an expert in palaeoclimatology from the University of Ottawa, claims that warmer periods of the Earth's history came around 800 years before rises in carbon dioxide levels.The programme also highlights how, after the Second World War, there was a huge surge in carbon dioxide emissions, yet global temperatures fell for four decades after 1940.The UN report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was published in February. At the time it was promoted as being backed by more than 2,000 of the world's leading scientists.But Professor Paul Reiter, of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, said it was a "sham" given that this list included the names of scientists who disagreed with its findings.Professor Reiter, an expert in malaria, said his name was removed from an assessment only when he threatened legal action against the panel."That is how they make it seem that all the top scientists are agreed," he said. "It's not true."Gary Calder, a former editor of New Scientist, claims clouds and solar activity are the real reason behind climate change."The government's chief scientific adviser Sir David King is supposed to be the representative of all that is good in British science, so it is disturbing he and the government are ignoring a raft of evidence against the greenhouse effect being the main driver against climate change," he said.Philip Stott, emeritus professor of biogeography at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, said climate change is too complicated to be caused by just one factor, whether CO2 or clouds.He said: "The system is too complex to say exactly what the effect of cutting back on CO2 production would be or indeed of continuing to produce CO2."It is ridiculous to see politicians arguing over whether they will allow the global temperature to rise by 2c or 3c."The documentary is likely to spark fierce criticism from the scientific establishment.A spokesman for the Royal Society said yesterday: "We are not saying carbon dioxide emissions are the only factor in climate change and it is very important that debate keeps going."But, based on the situation at the moment, we have to do something about CO2 emissions." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1965

 

[epouraniois]

so they are instituting a global carbon tax. who instituted a global tax in the days of the birth of the Christ? and is there a parallel? taxing carbon is the same as taxing you for breathing. the plants need the carbon dioxide so they can produce oxygen, politically then, the science is the opposite of the parties position in this matter.Although I do not know how to spell it, Trotsky would call this beuchwah truth, Truth and Goodness will be whatever they decide. "Lucifer's rebellion against God" means here, that the very rich, and not the Creator, will define reality and determine the future of the human race.

 

[hungry]

What were the "cavemen", especially Caveman Gore, blaming for the global warming that ended the last Ice Age?

 

[HammerStone]

Epo...for the love of money is the root of all evil... I'm not sure hunger, maybe the dinosaurs and wooly mammoths gave off a little too much gas.

(Hey the UN report said the cows did it, but there's been no crusade against those polluting cows...)