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Chuckle, chuckle chuckle.

If any of you care to do any of the most basic research on the history of climate studies, you will find some very strong "opinions" with regards to human induced climate change.

I do not think, or at least I haven't found one scientist yet that doesn't think the climate is changing.

Everyone agrees on that.

The human part is the sticky issue. I don't believe for example burning fossil fuels is making the sort of climate changes I have witnessed.

I DO know that when you follow THE MONEY on the issue here is what I come up with:

1) Hollywood has made millions off the idea.
2) Al Gore, has made a VERY comfortable living proclaiming it to be so, with a carbon "footprint" even George Bush would be impressed with, even though he has absolutely no expertise scientifically as a proponent of the idea.
3) Every major university institution is giving position and power to those who "TOW THE LINE" about human induced climate change based on Federal funding and NSF grants, which is very lucrative.
4) Every major prediction proclaimed since this idea has come about has been revised every year. Nobody it would seem can predict climatic change, even though, everyone working on the very lucrative professionally and financially idea of human induced climate change, has got the "research numbers down pat" they all assure us.

Contrast that sort of "fish bowl" science research with those in the astrophysics/solar weather fields that say our sun has/is going "berzerk" in the past 30 years.

http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/Library/1186 /
http://www.dxlc.com/solar/
http://physics.gmu.edu/~jevans/astr103/CourseNotes /sun_activity.html
http://www.spacew.com/astroalert.html

The solar cycles are completly out of "whack" right now.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/15sep_sola rminexplodes.htm

The suns behavior is anything but predictable and just this past January I was looking at beautiful aurora while I was visiting Chicago, IL.

Every major planet in the solars system is ALSO experiencing a warming trend.

http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/3 434

That could be due to all of the human colonies we have on mars for example as well as Jupitor's moons.

There is plenty of evidence for alternative explanations to climate change.

So why are we not hearing them?

ANSWER: No money to be made.

I mean look at some of the truly outrageous projects given considered SERIOUS thought by proponents of global warming:

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8897

HOW MUCH do you think a project like that would cost and WHO DO you think is going to get the money for it?

It sure isn't the third world countries who are being asked to starve to death and endure this climate change.

There is no suggestion of planting more trees either as you can't make money off of planting trees. It costs too much.

I SEMLL A RAT.

-Hackus

-Hackus

Has anybody noticed that these historical temperature graphs still show that somewhere around 1998 was hotter than 2005?

Again, statistics can be published to show support for a hypothesis or not. This is how business cases get approved. ;)

Is anybody monitoring CO2 levels in their neighbourhood? Is there DIY way of monitoring CO2 levels on a budget? It would be interesting to have a collection of stats from various global points and see the trend.

Has anybody measured the diameter of the sun lately? It is known that stars get larger as they age, until a certain point at which they collapse on themselves and become a black hole; maybe the coronal blasts are getting stronger. We're seeing much more displays of spectacular solar activity, which may also be a contributing factor to global warming. Can the increase in solar activity be attributed to man?

In short: where do we start fixing the problem? Will reducing CO2 emissions have a major impact?

X-ray Flux

Solar Terrestrial Activity Report

Realtime ACE Observations

I think it may be related with a geomagnetic storming from a sun.
read more in news:
The large and dynamic active sunspot region, numbered by NOAA as Region 720, has produced several strong solar events. Five large solar flares produced moderate (R2) to strong (R3) radio blackouts since 15 January. The largest of these solar eruptions, an X3.8 on the GOES-12 x-ray sensor, occurred today at 17/0659 UTC (near local midnight MST). Short-wave radio communications through the sunlit hemisphere of Earth experienced significant signal degradation during these solar flares.
Associated strong geomagnetic and radiation storms are underway. The radiation storm began on 16/0210 UTC (15 January, 7:10 P.M. MST) and is currently at the S3 (strong level). A G3 (strong) geomagnetic storm began early on the 17th (UTC) and remains in progress. The geomagnetic storm is associated with two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) observed on SOHO/LASCO imagery on 15 January.

Solar Terrestrial Activity Report

I've made this point before, but it bears pointing out again: Blaming human activity for global climate change is as absurd as blaming a butterfly in Bangladesh for a tornado in Texas. It is utter arrogance to believe (and fear mongering to posit) that human activity could have more than a negligable impact of global climate.

Now, that being said, I'm going to give everyone some pretty pictures. First, is a picture of solar activity. Notice the peaks corresponding to March of 2000 and March of 2002. Now look at this picture which shows anomalous activity. Notice the stabilization of the global climate which corresponds to the peaking of the sunspot cycle. The greatest number of anomalies are to be found during periods which have greater rates of change in solar activity. Remember that industrial output is more or less a constant rate.

The fact is, global climate change is being effected by solar activity. Our polluting of our own environment no more affects global warming than shitting your pants makes your house hotter in the summer.

I have the same question.
According to this article, "Since ozone is created and destroyed by solar UV radiation, there is some correlation of ozone concentration with 11-year sunspot cycles." (article also give a number of other natural causes of ozone layer change). The SF Chronicle said, "Between 1997 and 2000, the average growth rate of the ozone hole has slowed by approximately 7 percent per decade" That was the exact period of a spike in sunspot activity.
So how can we prove that it was the meager efforts of us humans that made the change, and not just a natural cycle?

This site also gives a good report on solar activity. (Its from the Radio DX-Listeners' Club in Norway. They keep an eye on this type of thing because it effects their radio communications quite severely, especially since they are at quite a northern lattitude.)