That's pretty good. :-)
Actually, the sun is a variable star but Total Solar Irradiance (TSI)
only varies by about 2%. Warmers claim (correctly) that such a small
variation in TSI is insufficient to have produced the warming observed
over the duration of the instrumental records. Skeptics agree except
that skeptics allow that the sun may have other means of influencing the
earth's temperature beyond direct irradiance.
Dr. Henrik Svensmark, director of the Center for Sun-Climate Research at
the Danish Space Research Institute, along with Nigel Calder have
hypothesized that the sun can indeed have a large influence on the
earth's climate via the interaction of the solar wind and galactic
cosmic rays. This interaction is seen to affect climate by its effect
on the production of clouds. There is presently a significant
experiment underway at CERN (called CLOUD) to test this hypothesis.
Results are expected by the end of summer.
You can read more here: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Svensmark>
Chuck Norcutt
On 8/8/2011 5:10 PM, sctroy@xxxxxxx wrote:
> http://www.theonion.com/articles/scientists-trace-heat-wave-to-massive-star-at-cent,21088/
>
> 'nuff said.
>
> Steve Troy
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