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The big question about global warming is whether or not -- or to what extent -- it is the result of human activity. The information on this page will show that (1) the Sun is much more influential on our climate than all the industrial activity in the world, and (2) the Earth is self-regulating. The Sun is More Active Now that in the Previous 1,000 Years. Scientists at the Zurich-based Institute for Astronomy have discovered that the frequency of sunspot activity coincides with global warming and cooling. Editor's Note: Obviously, if that's the case, no new legislation or federal spending will combat global warming — or cooling. The sun is a variable star. Objective scientists find that the evidence supporting a man-made global warming trend is at best skimpy. However, it cannot and should not be denied that climate changes take place and that they have done so since long before man even made an appearance on Earth. Based on many different indicators from widely varying sources, it has been found that our sun, a variable star, is a major and controlling influence on the extent and rate of long- and short-term climate changes affecting Earth. New Report Calls into Question 'Man-Made' Climate Change. New scientific evidence suggests there is a stronger link between solar activity and climate trends on Earth than there is with greenhouse gases, Fred Singer, an atmospheric and space physicist, told CNSNews.com. The new data call into question whether scientific evidence shows that global warming is a man-made phenomenon and suggests that natural forces, as opposed to human activity, may drive global climate change. Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate. Our concern about the environment, going back some 40 years, has taught us important lessons. It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe. It is foolish to do so when the problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by observations. New Hope for Global Warming Deniers. [Scroll down] The most fascinating and encouraging news for the deniers is from Australian astrophysicists I.R.G. Wilson, B.D. Carter, and I.A. Waite. They have developed a theory that the sunspot cycle and its intensity is driven by the gravitational relationships between the Sun and the Jovian planets Jupiter and Saturn. The Sun wobbles a bit around the center of the Solar System. Sometimes the center of the Solar System lies outside the surface of the Sun, only 1,000 times heavier than Jupiter and 3,000 times heavier than Saturn. All that wobbling seems to affect the behavior of the Sun. Baliunas Says Global Warming Related To Sun. Dr. [Sallie] Baliunas' work with fellow Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics astronomer Willie Soon suggests global warming is more directly related to solar variability than to increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, an alternative view to what's been widely publicized in the mainstream media. Global Warming: a Natural Cycle. The Idea-Channel, a non-profit educational company, created a 10-minute video in 2007 titled Unstoppable Global Cycles. Several scientists said that changes in temperature and climate are driven by the sun's natural cycles. "Climate is not a constant. We go through periods where it's much warmer and much cooler, and periods where it's wetter and dryer," said Dr. David R. Legates, of the Center for Climate Research at the University of Delaware. "The one thing we can say about climate in the future is that it will change." Sun Goes Longer Than Normal Without Producing Sunspots. The sun has been lying low for the past couple of years, producing no sunspots and giving a break to satellites. That's good news for people who scramble when space weather interferes with their technology, but it became a point of discussion for the scientists who attended an international solar conference at Montana State University. Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century. The sun has reached a milestone not seen for nearly 100 years: an entire month has passed without a single visible sunspot being noted. The event is significant as many climatologists now believe solar magnetic activity — which determines the number of sunspots — is an influencing factor for climate on earth. Has Global Warming Research Misinterpreted Cloud Behavior? When researchers observe natural changes in clouds and temperature, they have traditionally assumed that the temperature change caused the clouds to change, and not the other way around. To the extent that the cloud changes actually cause temperature change, this can ultimately lead to overestimates of how sensitive Earth's climate is to our greenhouse gas emissions. This seemingly simple mix-up between cause and effect is the basis of a new paper that will appear in the "Journal of Climate." Interview with Dr. Don Easterbrook: For about 500 years we have 30–year periods where it gets warm/cold, warm/cold. We've been warming up about a degree per century since the Little Ice Age in about 1600. We've been warming for 400 years, long before human–generated CO2 could have anything to do with the climate. If we project the previous century into the coming one, my projection is that we will have about a half-a-degree of cooling from 2007 (plus or minus three to five years) to about 2040. Is climate sensitive to solar variability? The causes of global warming — the increase of approximately 0.8±0.1°C in the average global temperature near Earth's surface since 1900 — are not as apparent as some recent scientific publications and the popular media indicate. We contend that the changes in Earth's average surface temperature are directly linked to two distinctly different aspects of the Sun's dynamics: the short-term statistical fluctuations in the Sun's irradiance and the longer-term solar cycles. Solar Cycle 24: Implications for the United States: Do we live in a special time in which the laws of physics and nature are suspended? No, we do not. Can we expect relationships between the Sun's activity and climate, that we can see in data going back several hundred years, to continue for at least another 20 years? With absolute certainty. In this presentation, I will demonstrate that the Sun drives climate, and use that demonstrated relationship to predict the Earth's climate to 2030. Sun's Shifts May Cause Global Warming. Most leading climate experts don't agree with Henrik Svensmark, the 49-year-old director of the Center for Sun-Climate Research at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen. ... His studies show that cosmic rays trigger cloud formation, suggesting that a high level of solar activity — which suppresses the flow of cosmic rays striking the atmosphere — could result in fewer clouds and a warmer planet. This, Svensmark contends, could account for most of the warming during the last century. Natural Forces, Not Man, Causing Global Warming, Scientist Says. Natural forces, not human activity, are primarily responsible for any global warming taking place, prominent atmospheric and space physicist Fred Singer declared Monday [3/3/2008] at the Heartland Institute's 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in New York City. What's more, the preponderance of scientific evidence about natural forces causing global warming is so great that the issue is settled, Singer said. Carbon Heat Trapping is Merely A Bit Player in Global Warming. New calculations show that doubling of carbon dioxide (CO2) will increase average global temperature by only about 1°F. or 0.55°C., much less than the range of 2°C. to 4.5°C. estimated by the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). These new calculations are based on NASA supported spectral calculations available on the Internet relating to greenhouse gases. The temperature increases are estimated to be somewhat more in winter in the colder climates because of reduced competing atmosphere water vapor, but smaller increases at other times and places. The Global Warming Sceptic: Working for clean air and an unpolluted atmosphere is a laudable aim, but forgetting to compare the magnitude of man-made pollutants to the natural sources, or having an absolute faith in measurement data of often dubious origin, is unscientific at least, and foolish certainly. The climate is "the changing state of the atmosphere", so do not expect a steady state situation. Do not forget either that the sun is the engine which drives everything, and that the output of that engine is in constant change! Over 31,000 U.S. Scientists Deny Man-Made Global Warming. In 1998, Dr. Arthur Robinson, Director of the Oregon Institute for Science and Medicine, posted his first Global Warming skeptic petition, on the Institute's website. … Robinson's petition states a truth: "There is no convincing evidence that human release of CO2, methane or other greenhouse gases is causing or will cause, in the foreseeable future, catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate." What do these approx 32,000 scientists believe has caused the earth's warming since 1850 if it isn't CO2? He points to the sun. Robinson notes that over the past 150 years the sunspot index has predicted the Earth's temperature changes — with 79 percent accuracy — about ten years before they happen. The sunspots actually predicted the 2007 global temperature decline; the index turned down in 2000. The computer models didn't foresee it. Sun, Not Man, Main Cause of Climate Change, New Study Says. According to a new study on global warming, climate scientists at the University of Rochester, the University of Alabama, and the University of Virginia found that the climate change models based on human influence do not match observed warming. In Hot Water: Ice Age Defrosted by Warming Ocean, Not Rise in CO2. Earth's climate can be sensitive, changing after a variety of events. A volcanic eruption or meteorite impact, for instance, can send enough particles into the air to block the sun and cool the climate. A thickening blanket of greenhouse gases can trap heat. And, more commonly, according to some scientists, slight changes in Earth's orientation toward the sun can cause it to cool or warm in so-called Milankovitch cycles (named after the Serbian engineer who first described them). Ancient global warming was jarring, not subtle, study finds. The global transition from ice age to greenhouse 300 million years ago was marked by repeated dips and rises in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and wild swings in temperature, with drastic effects on forests and vegetation, the researchers reported in the journal Science. … The provocative insight into planetary climate change counters the traditional view that global warming could be gradual and its regional effects easily anticipated. [This also negates the assumption that industrial activity and fossil fuels are to blame for global warming. I wonder why they didn't mention that in the article.] Earth's Climate Is Always Warming or Cooling. [Al] Gore, in his movie and elsewhere, never asks the key question: How much of current warming is due to natural causes? And how much is really human-caused? Anthropogenic warming is simply taken for granted as part of a claimed but nonexistent "complete" scientific consensus. The current warming trend is not unusual: Climate is always either warming or cooling, and ice is either melting or accumulating. A Bit of History for Global Warmers: Look at 1930. People sweltering from a heat wave in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. might find cold comfort in the fact that the temperatures of the past few days are not the hottest on record. That "honor" belongs to a summer 76 years ago — decades before the controversy over "man-made global warming" began. Cosmic rays and Earth's climate: Swedish researchers provided experimental evidence that cosmic rays may be a major factor in climate change. They calculated that just 5 years of cosmic ray activity can have 85 percent of the effect on the Earth's climate as 200 years of manmade carbon dioxide emissions. Though the study was published in the prestigious Proceedings of the Royal Society A, the findings went largely unreported by the Al Gore-smitten media. Clouds Mitigate Global Warming, New Evidence Shows. In a study published in the American Geophysical Union's Geophysical Research Letters on August 9, researchers at the University of Alabama-Huntsville (UAH) provide more real-world evidence of the self-regulating nature of the Earth's atmosphere. If the self-regulatory mechanism is confirmed by additional research, it will represent yet another deal-breaker for the hypothesis that has propped up climate alarmism thus far. Solar-Climate Links Discerned From Tree-Ring Periodicities in Brazil and Chile Reference: Why have we chosen to highlight this particular study? We have done so simply because it is typical of a vast array of studies that have come to essentially the same conclusion, i.e., that cyclical solar-activity oscillations of many periodicities have always influenced earth's climate and always will. These studies are truly legion; and the veracity of their findings cannot be denied. Revising 1,000 Years of Climate History. One of the cornerstones of the global warming "call to action" is the claim that average global temperatures over the last 1,000 years have remained rather stable, except for the significant warming during the last 100 years. … However, considerable evidence exists that the climate of the last millennium fluctuated significantly – from a Medieval Warming period with temperatures comparable to today's averages to a colder Little Ice Age that persisted until late in the 19th century. The Earth's Temperature May Be Self Regulating: Thin, high cirrus clouds may help regulate global temperature and serve as a counter to global warming, theorize a team of scientists led by Richard Lindzen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Recent Warming is Not Historically Unique: The pattern of frequent and rapid changes in climate throughout the Holocene indicates that the warming of the last 100 years is not a unique event and is thus not an indication of human impact on the climate, as is frequently claimed. Global Warming: A Chilling Perspective. Simultaneous warming on Mars This alone should be enough to make skeptics out of most people. Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says. Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural — and not a human-induced — cause, according to one scientist's controversial theory. Melting Mars Means Man-Made Global Warming is a Myth. Unfortunately, as this goes counter to the position of an alarmist media ... it seems quite unlikely that these revelations will be covered in today's papers or evening newscasts. Are SUVs causing global warming? Our nearby planetary neighbor Mars has also been undergoing some climatic changes recently. Space.com published an article that said, "Mars may be in the midst of a period of profound climate change, according to a new study that shows dramatic year-to-year losses of snow at the south pole." Mars Is Warming, NASA Scientists Report. According to a September 20 [2005] NASA news release, "for three Mars summers in a row, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near Mars' south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in progress." Because a Martian year is approximately twice as long as an Earth year, the shrinking of the Martian polar ice cap has been ongoing for at least six Earth years. Global warming on Mars — without SUVs! Though not subject to pollutants of human habitation, Mars appears to be undergoing global warming, with new data suggesting the planet is possibly emerging from an ice age. Mars is warming. The planet Mars is undergoing significant global warming which supports many climatologists' claims that the Earth's modest warming during the past century is due to a recent upsurge in solar energy, says James M. Taylor, of the Heartland Institute. For three Mars summers, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near the planet's south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in progress, says Taylor. Doom and gloom, but no reliable data on global warming. Hurricane season will be upon us in another month or so. Even the highly respected and often quoted hurricane experts from Colorado State University specifically say the relatively high storm frequency is not due to global warming. … All the while, the planet Mars is warming, according to 30 years of NASA research. And I've never seen pictures of dirty smokestacks or horrendous traffic jams on Mars. It's the cows! The cows missed the movie. Two British news reports could not have come at a better time for Fred Singer, a scientist and global-warming denier, who has incurred the wrath of global-warming guru and former Vice President Al Gore. The Independent reported Sunday that a new U.N. report found that livestock is responsible for 18 percent of global greenhouse gases. In other words, in the universe of global-warming alarmism, cow gas does more damage to [the] Earth than SUVs. Of Flatulent Cows and Liberal Madness. The other day we were once again warned about that dire danger to our existence — cow flatulence. It just so turns out that the gaseous emissions of the bovine digestive tract account for more greenhouse gasses than all the SUVs, airplanes, trucks and cars combined. In other words, as far as global warming is concerned cows pose a greater threat to our survival than transport. And this according to the UN no less. Cow 'emissions' are more damaging to the planet than CO2 from cars. Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow. A United Nations report has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, forests and wildlife. And they are blamed for a host of other environmental crimes, from acid rain to the introduction of alien species, from producing deserts to creating dead zones in the oceans, from poisoning rivers and drinking water to destroying coral reefs. Cow burps make for bad air Down Under. Belching and flatulence in cows and sheep annually produce 90 percent of Australia's methane emissions in the agricultural sector, a recent study shows. In an effort to monitor Australia's national greenhouse gas inventory, Australian researchers went about calculating methane emissions from belching bovines and other livestock. The world's top destroyer of the environment. A United Nations report has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, forests and wildlife. And they are blamed for a host of other environmental crimes, from acid rain to the introduction of alien species, from producing deserts to creating dead zones in the oceans, from poisoning rivers and drinking water to destroying coral reefs. The 400-page report by the Food and Agricultural Organisation, entitled Livestock's Long Shadow, also surveys the damage done by sheep, chickens, pigs and goats. Killer cow emissions: It's a silent but deadly source of greenhouse gases that contributes more to global warming than the entire world transportation sector, yet politicians almost never discuss it, and environmental lobbyists and other green activist groups seem unaware of its existence. That may be because it's tough to take cow flatulence seriously. But livestock emissions are no joke. UN downgrades man's impact on the climate. Mankind has had less effect on global warming than previously supposed, a United Nations report on climate change will claim next year. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there can be little doubt that humans are responsible for warming the planet, but the organisation has reduced its overall estimate of this effect by 25 percent. Wake up and Smell the Ammonia. A new report from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization shows that the global livestock sector is responsible for a higher share of greenhouse gas emissions than transport. Livestock account for 9 percent of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, 37 percent of methane emissions, 64 percent of ammonia emissions, and 65 percent of global nitrous oxide. Livestock affect climate through the process of deforestation caused by expansion of pastures, off-gassing from manure, and "enteric fermentation by ruminants", a fancy name for methane cow burps. Farmers fear wind of change. Australia is likely to become the only country in the world other than New Zealand to impose an [emissions trading scheme] on agriculture. Government modelling in NZ shows farm profitability plummeting to zero. Under calculation methods imposed on Australia by the Kyoto Protocol, a fully grown cow is deemed to emit the equivalent of two tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. With 30 million cattle in Australia, that makes cows a major emitter. Nitrous Oxide: Nitrous oxide — or N2O — is known to be destructive of stratospheric ozone. In addition, in the words of Crutzen et al. (2007), it is "a 'greenhouse gas' with a 100-year average global warming potential 296 times larger than an equal mass of CO2." One of the main sources of N2O is agriculture, which in Finland accounts for almost half of that nations's N2O emissions (Pipatti, 1997). Moreover, with N2O originating from microbial N[itrogen] cycling in soil — mostly from aerobic nitrification or from anaerobic denitrification (Firestone and Davidson, 1989) — there is a concern that CO2-induced increases in carbon input to soil, together with increasing N[itrogen] input from other sources, will increase substrate availability for denitrifying bacteria and may result in higher N2O emissions from agricultural soils as the air's CO2 content continues to rise. Climate change experts target cow flatulence. Britain's finest scientific minds have turned their attention to a problem that they claim is threatening the future of the entire planet -- farm animal flatulence. Experts at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen say the average cow contributes as much to global warming as a family car that travels 12,000 miles. Bovine flatulence blows up the atmosphere faster than autos. Environmental alarmists and much of the media refuse to look at other industries and other reasons carbon dioxide is pumped into the air. … According to a United Nations report released in late November (and widely ignored by the media), bovine flatulence is responsible for 18 percent of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. By contrast, it is estimated that the U.S. auto fleet accounts for 6 percent of global CO2 emissions. Cow farts collected in plastic tank for global warming study. Experts said the slow digestive system of cows makes them a key producer of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that gets far less public attention than carbon dioxide. In a bid to understand the impact of the wind produced by cows on global warming, scientists collected gas from their stomachs in plastic tanks attached to their backs. Ads target meat-eaters on greenhouse. Australians tucking into a juicy steak in front of the tele are being asked to consider how their meal impacts on climate change. Meat-eaters are the focus of a $400,000 television, print and billboard advertising campaign launched today linking methane emissions from cows to global warming. Reference material: A report called Livestock impacts on the environment was published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. New Zealand seeks to curb livestock's gas emissions. Over thousands of years of evolution, sheep, cattle and other cud chewers developed a nasty habit. They burp and break wind a lot. That gives New Zealand a distressing gas problem. The country's 4 million people share two islands in the South Pacific with 40 million sheep, 9 million beef and dairy cattle and more than a million farmed deer, all producing the methane that many climate scientists say is one of the worst culprits behind global warming. The Editor says... Sheep and cattle have been around for thousands of years, through warm weather and cold, and if they were in any way responsible for "global warming", then the warming would not be a recent development. If the Earth is warming, it must be due to a force more powerful than cows. If you're going to point fingers, point them toward the sun. No -- It's the termites! Before you go pointing fingers at the cows, keep in mind that Termites produce 11% of the naturally occurring methane in the atmosphere, and swamp gas accounts for almost all the rest. (Another report puts the figure at five percent.) Each termite produces only about half a microgram per day, but there are so many of them in the world that together they produce about 20 million tons per year.*. Global-warming theory and the eugenics precedent. Fifteen years ago it was estimated that the digestive tracts of termites produce about 50 billion tons of CO2 and methane annually. That was more than the world's production from burning fossil fuel. Additionally, cattle, horses and other ruminant animals are huge producers of both CO2 and methane, but, being unable to respond to our demands on this issue, their activity is ignored. When it comes to methane, another greenhouse gas, termites are responsible for 11 percent of the world's production from natural sources. No -- It's the moose! Burping moose bad for the environment. Amidst all the talk about carbon dioxide emissions and global warming comes news that Norway's national mascot may be contributing to the destruction of the environment, through burping and other bodily functions. Belching moose add to global warming. A grown moose belches out methane gas equivalent to 2,100 kilograms (4,630 pounds) of carbon dioxide a year, contributing to global warming, Norwegian researchers said Wednesday [8/22/2007]. That is more than twice the amount of CO2 emitted on a round-trip flight across the Atlantic Ocean from Oslo to the Chilean capital Santiago, according to Scandinavian Airlines. |
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