The sun’s changing energy levels are not to blame for recent global warming and, if anything, solar variations over the past 20 years should have had a cooling effect, scientists said on Wednesday.
They concluded that the rapid rise in global mean temperatures seen since the late 1980s could not be ascribed to solar variability, whatever mechanism was invoked.
Britain’s Royal Society — one of the world’s oldest scientific academies, founded in 1660 — said the new research was an important rebuff to climate change skeptics.
“At present there is a small minority which is seeking to deliberately confuse the public on the causes of climate change. They are often misrepresenting the science, when the reality is that the evidence is getting stronger every day,” it said in a statement.
Politics alone required this latest bit of cul-de-sac research. There were only a couple of scientists advancing the solar thesis; but, every wacko defender of the petroleum religion leapt upon the possibility as another divine revelation in the copout gospel.
And another one bites the dust.
>>I’d call it progress to not have to wait in long lines for gasoline.
Well, the local TV news here lists gas stations that are selling cheaper gas (5-10 cents below the average). You should see the lines at those places.
No progress. Just a warmer globe. And a couple of hundred billion more in Dick Cheney’s Halliburton account. Mission Accomplished! Hope you made out like a bandit, MikeN. If not, you’re a fool.
An interesting discussion about global warming you may want to see
http://climateprogress.org/2007/07/20/the-work-to-read-after-seeing-an-inconvenient-truth/
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