Dear Global Warming deniers: You can stop saying “the sun is responsible” for Global Warming
Attention Global Warming deniers: Please cease at once your claim that the sun is to blame for Global Warming.
‘Sun not responsible for climate change’
The strongest evidence to date that the sun is not responsible for recent global warming has been set out by scientists.
The new study by Prof Michael Lockwood of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, near Oxfordshire, and Claus Fröhlich of the World Radiation Center in Davos, Switzerland, overturns claims by climate sceptics who say that the planet’s climate has long fluctuated and that current warming is just part of that natural cycle - the result of variation in the sun’s output and not greenhouse gas emissions. Their study appears in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A.
The study found that global warming since 1985 has been caused neither by an increase in solar radiation nor by a decrease in the flux of galactic cosmic rays.
Some researchers had also suggested that the latter might influence global warming because the rays trigger cloud formation.
Prof Lockwood said that the comprehensive study was a response to misleading media reports. He cited ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’, a television programme shown in March by Channel 4, as a prime example.
So please, kill that talking point. This means you, and you, and Jim Inhofe, and Fox News, and “Planet Gore” and … well, you know who you are.
And don’t worry, you’ll find plenty of other ways to try and destroy science. Your leaders work at killing it every day, it seems.
–WKW
July 11th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
More and more everyday I’m seeing the crap from the global warming deniers. But Al Gore is letting us down: He needs to seriously man-up soon and have a public debate with the deniers. If he doesn’t, he’s about to lose this fight for all of us!
July 12th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Humm….But is this SOUND science?
Let me check.
* shakes, waits *
Sources say no.