Life on Earth is possible because of Earth's perfect positioning in the solar system: not too close to the sun and not too far. For centuries, academicians have acknowledged this, and climate scientists today know that the sun is biggest influencer and driver of global temperature.
NASA's page on solar influence clearly states that changes in the sun largely determine Earth's atmospheric and surface temperatures. Astrophysicists and climatologists measure these changes in the sun in terms of quantifiable phenomena such as sunspot activity and solar cycles.
However, in recent times, NASA has succumbed to pressure from climate doomsday proponents. NASA's original page on the sun's impact on our climate system is now hidden from the public domain.
With the advent of dangerous man-made global warming theory, CO2 has taken the limelight, and the sun has been relegated to a mere spectator.
This could be warming-obsessed alarmists' biggest mistake ever.
In central Europe, for example, temperature changes since 1990 coincided more with the changes in solar activity than with atmospheric CO2 concentration. The same has been true globally, and across centuries.
The Maunder Minimum (1645–1715) and Dalton Minimum (1790–1830) — periods of low solar activity — were responsible for the coldest periods of the Little Ice Age. England's River Thames froze. Whole civilizations collapsed as people starved because cold-induced poor harvests led to malnutrition that made people too weak to resist disease. Likewise, increased solar activity in the Roman Warm Period (~250 B.C. to A.D. 400) and Medieval Warm Period (~A.D. 950–1250) brought warmer temperatures on Earth, and thriving crops led to greater nutrition and lower mortality rates.
Hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific papers affirm the overwhelming impact of solar activity on Earth's temperature.
Observations of sunspot activity at the Space Weather Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) indicate that there has been a lull in solar activity during the past 18 years — the same period during which there has been no significant warming, confirming a direct correlation between solar activity and global average temperature.
Some climate scientists say another major cooling is likely soon. Their claims are not outlandish.
Evidence for the lull in solar activity is so clear that even NASA admits the cooling trend. Martin Mlynczak of NASA's Langley Research Center commented, "We see a cooling trend[.] ... High above Earth's surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy. If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold."
Most recent scientific studies on solar cycles suggest that the next solar cycles (25 and 26) could be similar to the Maunder and Dalton minima that plunged much of the world into disastrous cold.
An article in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Astrophysics and Space Science last month warns that the solar minimum might already have begun. Its authors also say there is a high possibility that it will be even colder than those of the Little Ice Age.
My only question: Will there be mammoths and mastodons, and/or cave women?
If you watch the 10000 BC movie, you will note that all of the cave women are exceptionally pretty. So there is hope.
ReplyDeleteWhat did Rachel Welch shave her legs with, clam shells?
DeleteSo I get out of this is, I live in South Dakota now, it will turn into the Arctic... I am planning to move to Alabama in the spring. What weather South Dakota has now will be common in Southern Alabama. Swell. I wonder how much beachfront property in Panama will fetch?
ReplyDeleteSome years back the Bush family bought a lot of land in Uruguay.
DeleteI just plowed 2' of climate change to allow homestead egress. Regardless some scientist makes a "learned" prognostication, the environment will do what it wants -- man has zero say in the matter. But hey, it's a free country (sort of)...problem is far too many will believe anything no matter how moronic.
ReplyDeleteWell, the South Koreans are working on cloning a wooly mammoth, so there's that.
ReplyDeleteAnd some scientist is now saying that we need to clone WMs because they knock the arctic forests down and create artic tundra plains, which results in keeping the permafrost frozen, which if the permafrost melts, huge amounts of methane are released, causing global warming...
So... yeah, dunno what my point was either, but there's some funny stuff out there right now...
and now the astroweather folks chime in: the average annual temperature change of the earth and the planet mars are in lockstep for over the several hundreds years or so that accurate numbers of the temperatures of both have been logged. if man is the cause of temperature change on earth, what's causing temperature change on mars? does man's reach extend that far? is the earth leaving a trail of smog behind it's orbit to obliterate the sun shine at mars?
ReplyDeletesimply put, when mr. sun goes down at night, it gets cooler. when mr. sun comes up in the morning, it gets warmer. when mr. sun doesn't put out so much heat, it gets cooler on earth and mars. when mr. sun puts out more heat than usual, it tends to get warmer on the earth and mars. mr. sun has changing moods;sometimes mr. sun gets a bit hotter under the collar than other times(about 11,000 years stretches of time) and just has to let it all out. can you blame him for getting hotter under the collar what with all these arrogant insipid twits running around spouting off about how much effect they have on the way things are?
Is man the problem for Mar's temps? Yes, you bet! Send $100 to Al Gore & promise to stop driving your car & he'll fix that too....
DeleteScrew that! Send $1000 to me and I'll solve all your problems. Put your hands on your computer and feel the warmth of my sincerity.
DeleteI believe climate change is just a scam to take more of our money and redistribute it into others pockets. I smell the French behind this.
ReplyDeleteIf you smell French behinds, yer a better man than me, capt.
DeleteThat's just wrong, bogsidebunny. It reminds me of French latrines in summer and holy Jehoshaphat, they stink.
DeleteEspecially after a herd of French muslims use one...
DeleteAAAAHHhhhh....the burning. it hurts....
DeleteIf the coming cooling lessons the freaking heat here in w Texas during the summer put me down for that.
ReplyDeleteAlso whatever happens with our "weather" you can bet your last donut that REgressives will some how, some way blame it on our SUVs and demand that us pee-ons need to stop eating hamburgers...