This article predicts similar outcomes to Climate Change, eg famine, reduced agricultural output, stormy weather etc, except places the blame squarely on solar activity. Human culpability is completely excluded. A classic quote:
"Carbon dioxide is, most definitely, not a pollutant."
It is articles like these, and the people who write them, that confuse the issue and encourage a population of sheep herds to vascillate in the hope that 'everything will be okay.' Meanwhile our environment is changing rapidly, our food supply is already barely meeting demand.
Instead of arguing over who is to blame, we ought to agree on what we can do.
SIDENOTE: If it is true that sunspots will cool our planet over the next phase, this might mitigate the incredible amounts of warming that have been forecast and are currently underway (we are already up 1 C on average, with estimates that this may increase by up to an addtional 5 C).
"Carbon dioxide is, most definitely, not a pollutant."
It is articles like these, and the people who write them, that confuse the issue and encourage a population of sheep herds to vascillate in the hope that 'everything will be okay.' Meanwhile our environment is changing rapidly, our food supply is already barely meeting demand.
Instead of arguing over who is to blame, we ought to agree on what we can do.
SIDENOTE: If it is true that sunspots will cool our planet over the next phase, this might mitigate the incredible amounts of warming that have been forecast and are currently underway (we are already up 1 C on average, with estimates that this may increase by up to an addtional 5 C).
 clipped from www.stuff.co.nz
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Correlation is not causation to be sure. The third most important greenhouse gas does not correlate well with global warming or cooling either; in fact, CO2 in the atmosphere trails warming and precedes cooling which is clear natural evidence for its well-studied inverse solubility in water. CO2 dissolves in cold water and bubbles out of warm water. The equilibrium in seawater is 50, making seawater a great 'sink'.
The causation has been studied; however, and while the radiation from the sun varies only in the fourth decimal place, the magnetism is awesome. As I understand it, the hypothesis of the Danish National Space Center goes as follows:
Active sun → enhanced magnetic and thermal flux = solar wind → geomagnetic shield response → less low-level clouds → less albedo (less heat reflected) → warmer climate
Quiet sun → reduced magnetic and thermal flux = reduced solar wind → geomagnetic shield drops → galactic cosmic ray flux → more low-level clouds and more snow → more albedo effect (more heat reflected) → colder climate
That is how the bulk of climate change might work, coupled with (modulated by) sunspot peak frequency there are cycles of global warming and cooling like waves in the ocean. When the waves are closely spaced, the planets warm; when the waves are spaced farther apart, the planets cool.
Check the web site of the Danish National Space Center.
http://www.space.dtu.dk/English/Research/Research_sections/Sun_Climate.aspx
Cyclicity in the Sun-Jupiter centre of gravity is likely the ultimate cause of the solar magnetic cycle. We await more on that. In addition, though the post 60s warming period is over, it has allowed that great green house gas, water vapour, to kick in with humidity, clouds, rain and snow to provide the negative feedback that scientists use to explain the 4+ billion year history of life on Earth. The planet heats and cools naturally and our gasses are the thermostat.
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