Sun Not a Significant Driver of Climate Change

damn_registrars writes "Scientists from Edinburgh, Scotland have recently published a study based on 1,000 years of climate data. They have compared the effects of differing factors including volcanic activity, solar activity, and greenhouse gases to find which has the most profound effect on climate. They have concluded that the driving factor since 1900 has been greenhouse gases."

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Re:Grasping at Straws

[angel'o'sphere]

I'm sitting right now in Karlsruhe, germany. The temperature according to the yahoo weather app is 13 degrees centigrade. (Yahoo is usually wrong, that means weather is a bit better and a bit warmer actually, but I'm to lazy to dig up an accurate number, as it is not important). Just for future reference if this gets digged out by climate researchers or idiots like you in a few hundret years: today is 24th of december, the year is 2013 (christian time). I repeat he fucking temperature outside is +13 degrees centigrade.
For you morons who don't get it to the slightest: TODAY IS CHRISTMAS! What do you think why every christmas story on the world involves snow? Snowy regions, coldness and snow, snow ... more snow, snow storms, blizzards and sledges? Ha? What do you think, why that is so? BECAUSE europe is supposed to be covered with snow, from north italy, north spain over france and germany and poland into siberia in the east up to the north pole. With only exceptions being parts of ireland, island and wales and perhaps england. It is supposed to be covered in snow like it always was around christmas, except for the last 20 - 30 years.
HOWEVER: there is no snow! It is fucking 13 degrees to warm for it. It is supposed to have something like -10 degrees here, going down at nights to -15 to -20. But it is not. It was not happening to be that cold since 25 or more years.
With the raw exception of a winter where it actually is a little bit below zero. And then all scream: seeeeee! It is cold! There is no global warming!
I repeat in case you did not get it: right now northern europe should be under a snow cover ... according to the climate of 30, 50 or 100 years ago. But it is, depending on your region: 13, 20 or MORE degrees (centigrade) to warm!
(And yes, there are plenty of negative effects for not freezing, like having a mosquito plague every summer)