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A Hotter Sun May Be Contributing To Global Warming

Posted by timothy on from the or-a-shrinking-orbit dept.

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."

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  1. arrogance by doce · · Score: 5, Insightful

    i always thought it was arrogance to suggest that, to the exclusion of all other factors, humans had the greatest impact on global warming.

    don't think me a corporate whore or anti-environmentalist; i'm willing to bet that we have some impact... i just think we don't know enough about our ecosystem and it's interaction with the universe around us to automatically assume that it's all our fault.

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    1. Re:arrogance by dubl-u · · Score: 5, Insightful

      So don't feel bad about questioning the Green orthodoxy, because it's changed 180-degrees in the not too distant past, and they probably don't even believe it themselves.

      I'm all for questioning orthodoxy!

      But I also question your ability to read the minds of people you apparently haven't met. I know a number of people who do environmental work for a living. As in everything else, some are clueless and some are happy to take somebody else's word for things that fit their prejudices. (Thanks goodness that doesn't happen here on Slashdot.) But many are smart and sincere, and have the kinds of science background to be able to evaluate the claims well.

  2. All the more reason by bigberk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since there's enough evidence to suggest that burning fossil fuels affects climate change, and also the sun is getting hotter, this is all the more reason that we must control our consumption (the former variable, within our control). Anything less would be reckless.

  3. Re:How long before... by Frostalicious · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...some country have a scientific comitee (*cough* US *cough*) use this as an argument there isn't global warming due to pollution and that one don't really have to reduce CO2 emission or other Serre-effect gas ?

    The US government ALREADY doesn't take global warming seriously. Bush was pretty quick on the draw to withdraw from the Kyoto protocol when he entered office. I guess Kyoto and pumpin oil don't mix.

    G Dubya withdraws from Kyoto

  4. Re:Double the cookage by Otter · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The weather is what it is. To the degree that global warning is occurring, the question is what the cause or causes are of that change.

    I'm prepared to believe that CO2 is the primary culprit, but I regard as a question of science, not blind religious faith. The mindset you and "aepervius" seem to have, that CO2 must be treated as the cause of climate change, regardless of what new facts emerge, is, well, embarassing.

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  5. Re:How long before... by dubl-u · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Although the more reasonable response is probably to say, "Gosh, if the sun is getting hotter, we'd better make deeper cuts in CO2 emissions to compensate."

    Alas, reason is out of style.