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The Force Behind Climate
Change On Earth
By John Coleman
Solar cycles have been tracked since 1755. A plot of solar activity and average temperatures on Earth is a clear match; it seems likely it is cause and effect.
This significantly complicates the claims of man-made or anthropogenic global warming.
All energy on earth comes from the sun in the form or both radiation including visible light and invisible ultraviolet and from variable streams of charged particles from solar eruptions or from holes in the suns corona. When the sun is very active, there is more radiation to directly warm the earth and ultraviolet to form and destroy ozone in low and middle latitudes in the high atmosphere, both reactions releasing heat. When the sun is more active and the earth’s magnetic field in energized, less cosmic rays that have a low cloud enhancement capability can penetrate the atmosphere from space. Low clouds cool the earth by reflecting the sun's radiation. And during these active sun times, there are less low clouds and more sun to warm the earth. For all these reasons an active sun means a warmer earth, a quiet sun a cooler earth. The Sun contains 99.8% of the mass of solar system. Its constant hydrogen fueled atomic fusion consumes more mass in a second that all the fossil fuel ever burned on Earth. It is difficult to imagine man's activities overwhelming the heat from the Sun. But, that is exactly what global warming advocates want you to believe. Indeed, as the chart above showed clearly, the solar cycles clearly synchronize better with historical ups and downs in temperatures far better than anything man has done. According to the NASA solar experts Earth is emerging from an 11-year solar cycle that began in May of 1996. In theory that cycle would have ended a couple of years ago. Longer cycles are often precursors to a quiet sun. And many solar scientists are now predicting a much quieter sun in our very near future, some suggest as quiet as during the last little ice age. The Russian Academy has actually issued an Imminent Global Cooling Warning. The late Rhodes Fairbridge, an eminent Astronomer, became particularly expert on the solar cycles during his long academic career at Columbia University. He developed the interesting hypothesis that the orbits of the major planets had a strong impact on the amount of energy radiated from the Sun and the pattern of that radiation in the form of solar cycles. He and other experts have identified more than a half dozen solar cycles ranging from 11 years to 420 years. Here is a plot of solar energy reaching the Earth in the last 30 years (last 3 solar cycles).
You may have heard of the solar constant when you were in school. It is a figure that is the sum total of the Sun's output received on Earth. It turns out, however, to be an average, not a constant at all. The chart above makes that very clear.
If you plot average annual temperatures on Earth, solar cycles and mankind's supposed most significant climate altering activity, the burning of fossil fuels, the solar cycles and temperatures match and the use of fossil fuels seems to be unrelated. When
When they run out of counter arguments to the solar cycle explanation of the climate change on Earth, Global Warming advocates often turn the polar ice melt at the North Pole. Pictures of ice calving from the Arctic ice pack and polar bears stranded on ice sheets drifting in the frigid water bring an emotional charge to the discussion. I will deal with all of that in my next brief.
Here are some links on solar cycles:
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2005/2005GL023429.shtml
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Solar_Changes_and_the_Climate.pdf
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/FORECASTING_SOLAR_CYCLE.pdf
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/new-and-cool/next_solar_cycle_late_and_likely_to_be_a_dud_the_implications/
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2005/2005GL023429.shtml\
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/new-and-cool/solar_cylces_24_and_25_and_predicted_climate_response/
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/a_critical_review_of_lockwood_and/
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