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A Hotter Sun May Be Contributing To Global Warming
no reason to be here writes "The sun seems to be getting hotter. Total radiation output has increased .05% per decade since the 1970s.
This article over at Yahoo! News has the scoop. Though .05% may not seem like much, if it has been going on for the last century or more (and circumstantial evidence suggest that it has), it could be a significant factor in the increase in global average temperature noticed during the 20th century."
The sun has been causing global warming? Now who would have ever expected a giant ball of uncontrolled nuclear explosions to change at all and have any effect on the warming of our planet.
I'm still believing it's the cow farts.
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Watch the environmentalists whinge about how all our use of fossil fuels is contributing to solar warming.
I think Al Gore has a new plank for 2004...
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The EVIL sun and its weapons of mass destruction must be stopped! If the sun does not capitulate and give up its weapons of mass destruction, a coalition of the willing will be led to rid the earth of this tyranny! Support Earth! Donate your Ice cubes. If you are not with us, you are with the EVIL Heat producing SUN!
We've got to force the people who live on the sun to stop using styrofoam boxes for their Big Macs!
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Due to the large amount of ore that must be refined to build SUV for Americans, the magnetosphere of Earth has deformed and is now causing the Solar Corona to expand. This expansion is causing increased radiation, and hence, higher ambient temperatures on Earth.
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It's true! I saw it on the newstand at the grocery: THE SUN WILL EXPLODE IN LESS THAN 6 YEARS
The sun is increasing output just to keep up with our solar power demands. Soon the oceans will start rising from our wave-power harvesting generators, and the earth is already spinning slower due to wind powered turbines! People of the earth unite: stop using these dangerous alternative fuels! Petroleum-based fuel sources are the only way to keep our planet safe for our cihldren and their SUVs!
It was found that 100% of so called 'gun related' deaths were actually caused by the Sun!
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The oceans are suspected of contibuting to global humidity.
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Wouldn't it be nifty if they found that the sun is turning to a red giant right now, and we have 50 years before we are cooked.
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Someone posted a link to this article. We have less than six years. That's good news for people who hate Enterprise since it definitely won't be still on in 6 years.
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A Hotter Sun May Be Contributing To Global Warming
Really. Did they figure this out themselves, or do they have a team of monkeys working on it?
Yeah, science sucks. I refuse to believe anything that doesn't offer logical and consistant explanations for everything in the universe, with ample evidence to back it up. That's why I'm sticking with Christianity.
I'm sorry everyone, but global warming is caused by my Nvidia FX card.
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All we have to do is file a patent on global warming, then sue the sun to stop violating our patent. Easy as pie.
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But why is it getting hotter? Well, here's one to send in to your local "science" reporter:;)
Jesum-crow folks. Everyone knows its not the heat, its the humidity.
Please ... will someone think of the penguins?
The sun has been causing global warming? Now who would have ever expected a giant ball of uncontrolled nuclear explosions to change at all and have any effect on the warming of our planet.
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Its a lie. Its the Republicans, plain and simple. And if it IS the sun, then the Republicans are who made the sun hotter. And if the sun is hotter due to a natural phenomenon, then the Republicans sped it up with their capitalism. If we didn't drill for oil, the sun wouldn't be so hot. The sun is heating up because of greenhouse gases. Its the Conservative's fault the sun is hotter, it was the tax cut that caused it. SUV's. Too many in on the planet causes more tidal friction on the sun, so its the SUV's fault, which is the Republican's fault because they own stock in the companies that make the SUV's, who are being irresponsible for giving the public what it wants, since everyone knows only Hollywood types should drive SUV's, not these damn soccer moms and farmers. Its because of the decline of endangered species. The sun is warming up because of drilling in ANWR, which hasn't started yet. The sun is part of the vast right wing conspiracy. Its the Republican's war causing it. Its because the sun is angery at us for our ways.
Ok, did I leave any out? Just wanted to help and get the new talking points out for the libs
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If the heating of the sun really were the only driver of rising temperatures, then clearly cuts in CO2 would be useless to compensate.
Not true. CO2, like any greenhouse gas, acts as a blanket, keeping warmth in. That's not in dispute by anybody. The only dispute is about to what extent human emissions of CO2 have contributed to the recent increase in global temperatures.
So suppose tomorrow that the Sun increased its output by, say, 1%. If we wanted to keep temperatures the same, reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere would be one of the easier ways for us to compensate.
Of course it's also a pretty boring way to do that; personally, I'd favor increasing our planet's albedo by covering Texas and Nevada with mirrors, tiled like a giant disco ball.
Don't forget that people who voted for Ralph Nader are also partly to blame. Their ballots apparenly split the sun's gravitational field, which obviously contributed to all this overheating.
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I vote for monkeys.
THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!!!! eventually.
In about a billion years, almost all CO2 will have been removed from the atmosphere. From there, the continuing increase in energy will cause our oceans to evaporate and then boil. The water will go up into the stratosphere, where high energy radiation will break it into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen will escape and earth as we know it will be sterilized. Sounds lovely, doesn't it?
This is still GWB's fault, right?
- Well, that explains it, off I go in my SUV.
- Bull, all the SUVs are the worst part.
- Other
And, of course, the comments that fall into 'Other' will be the interesting ones.Sure I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?
Regardless of what the article said, the post on slashdot implied that it was .05% per decade, period. Thats what I'm responding to.
I'm glad to see someone here openly admit they aren't commenting on the article, but on the Slashdot post that is either politically spun or written by someone who didn't bother to read the article in the first place. If only more people would open up and admit they only read the postings, we could get the editors to stop linking the sites, and end the scourge of slashdotting.
So maybe now the global warming activist kooks will proceed to go after the Sun's government and leave the US alone. I will help fund the construction of a spaceship to send all these kooks as ambassadors to Sun-land.
Steve Magruder, Metro Foodist
Hmmm... Maybe it's time to let Mr. Burns block out the sun in Springfield... just might help a little.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
maybe we're all just getting smaller and easier to heat?
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The Republican's black hearts are decreasing the earth's albedo, which causes it to absorb more solar radiation and thus increase temperature. Bet you didn't think of that one.