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The Sun and Earth did IT
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 9:36 pm
by PolyGirl
News over at Physorg states. "Long debate ended over cause, demise of ice ages -- may also help predict "future.
Spread the news that the Sun and the Earth did
IT!!
Regards
Polygirl
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:14 pm
by TallDave
This used to be taught as high school physics. Then it went out of political vogue with the rise of the warmenistas.
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 10:13 pm
by Maui
Seems to me this belongs in "General" instead of news.
If by "warmenistas" you mean ill informed politicos, maybe. But if you mean scientists supporting the theory of anthropogenic effects as the primary cause of recent warming, I think it's highly inaccurate to claim they never believed solar variation was behind past climate change. For example, the IPCC says:
Data correlation and model simulations indicate that solar variability and volcanic activity are likely to be leading reasons for climate variations during the past millennium, before the start of the industrial era... These examples illustrate that different climate changes in the past had different causes. The fact that natural factors caused climate changes in the past does not mean that the current climate change is natural. By analogy, the fact that forest fires have long been caused naturally by lightning strikes does not mean that fires cannot also be caused by a careless camper
IPCC AR4 FAQ