The Sun Also Sets
- From: Captain Compassion <daranc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:27:15 -0800
The Sun Also Sets
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 2/7/2008
http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=287279412587175
Climate Change: Not every scientist is part of Al Gore's mythical
"consensus." Scientists worried about a new ice age seek funding to
better observe something bigger than your SUV ? the sun.
Back in 1991, before Al Gore first shouted that the Earth was in the
balance, the Danish Meteorological Institute released a study using
data that went back centuries that showed that global temperatures
closely tracked solar cycles.
To many, those data were convincing. Now, Canadian scientists are
seeking additional funding for more and better "eyes" with which to
observe our sun, which has a bigger impact on Earth's climate than all
the tailpipes and smokestacks on our planet combined.
And they're worried about global cooling, not warming.
Kenneth Tapping, a solar researcher and project director for Canada's
National Research Council, is among those looking at the sun for
evidence of an increase in sunspot activity.
Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this
cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. The lack of increased
activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a Maunder
Minimum, an event which occurs every couple of centuries and can last
as long as a century.
Such an event occurred in the 17th century. The observation of
sunspots showed extraordinarily low levels of magnetism on the sun,
with little or no 11-year cycle.
This solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that
began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming,
until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to
massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe.
Tapping reports no change in the sun's magnetic field so far this
cycle and warns that if the sun remains quiet for another year or two,
it may indicate a repeat of that period of drastic cooling of the
Earth, bringing massive snowfall and severe weather to the Northern
Hemisphere.
Tapping oversees the operation of a 60-year-old radio telescope that
he calls a "stethoscope for the sun." But he and his colleagues need
better equipment.
In Canada, where radio-telescopic monitoring of the sun has been
conducted since the end of World War II, a new instrument, the
next-generation solar flux monitor, could measure the sun's emissions
more rapidly and accurately.
As we have noted many times, perhaps the biggest impact on the Earth's
climate over time has been the sun.
For instance, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar
Research in Germany report the sun has been burning more brightly over
the last 60 years, accounting for the 1 degree Celsius increase in
Earth's temperature over the last 100 years.
R. Timothy Patterson, professor of geology and director of the
Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center of Canada's Carleton University,
says that "CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet's
climate on long, medium and even short time scales."
Rather, he says, "I and the first-class scientists I work with are
consistently finding excellent correlations between the regular
fluctuations of the sun and earthly climate. This is not surprising.
The sun and the stars are the ultimate source of energy on this
planet."
Patterson, sharing Tapping's concern, says: "Solar scientists predict
that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe cycle
of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions
on Earth."
"Solar activity has overpowered any effect that CO2 has had before,
and it most likely will again," Patterson says. "If we were to have
even a medium-sized solar minimum, we could be looking at a lot more
bad effects than 'global warming' would have had."
In 2005, Russian astronomer Khabibullo Abdusamatov made some waves ?
and not a few enemies in the global warming "community" ? by
predicting that the sun would reach a peak of activity about three
years from now, to be accompanied by "dramatic changes" in
temperatures.
A Hoover Institution Study a few years back examined historical data
and came to a similar conclusion.
"The effects of solar activity and volcanoes are impossible to miss.
Temperatures fluctuated exactly as expected, and the pattern was so
clear that, statistically, the odds of the correlation existing by
chance were one in 100," according to Hoover fellow Bruce Berkowitz.
The study says that "try as we might, we simply could not find any
relationship between industrial activity, energy consumption and
changes in global temperatures."
The study concludes that if you shut down all the world's power plants
and factories, "there would not be much effect on temperatures."
But if the sun shuts down, we've got a problem. It is the sun, not the
Earth, that's hanging in the balance.
--
If you disagree with the theories and dogmas of Marxism or Scientific Socialism
then you are a tool of Capitalist interests. If you disagree with the theories
or dogmas of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming then you are a tool of
Capitalistic interests. Notice a pattern here? -- Captain Compassion
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
"...the whole world, including the United States, including all that
we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark
Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights
of perverted science." -- Sir Winston Churchill
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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