Suspicious Sunspots

With the occurrence of the 'climategate' scandal and a monstrous snowstorm that hit the midwest United States last week, skeptics on global warming were celebrating what seemed to be proof of a "left-winged" agenda designed to strip us of our toys. The opposition's main theory was surrounding the role of the sun and its effects on our climate, especially with the activity of sunspots, blaming the sun as the sole contributor to the phenomenon of global warming. Wanting to continue with "business-as-usual," skeptics claimed that sunspots, which are the amplification of the solar magnetic field that bursts through with the rotation of the Sun's equator and poles, are behind the "natural" cause of global warming.
According to the Independent, researchers have found this theory--first raised by Friis-Christensen and Henrik Svensmakr in 1991 and then later in 1998--to be problematic and heavily ladened with flaws. Further research has found that when the errors introduced into the analysis are removed, the correlations disappear, with no link between the sunspots and global warming.
News spreads quickly with the global reaches of the internet, and soon enough this new occurence was found almost everywhere, all repearting the same thing: There are flaws in the research on the effects of sunspots on the climate and in truth it doesn't cause the harmful changes in climate that we are experiencing. But what are these flaws? The only evidence I have come across is a paper published in 2004 by Paul Damon and Peter Laut titled, "Pattern of Strange Errors Plagues Solar Activity and Terrestrial Climate Data", but this doesn't read like the last word on the subject.
The entire incident appears to be the perfect example of the tennis-match debate between the left and the right as propagated by the media, blurring the facts and exhausting the issue until all the energy needed to solve issues are spent.
The problems surrounding both arguments point to the fact that further comprehensive and cross-disciplinary research needs to continue in order to become conscious of the fact that human beings, and their actions, are apart of an intricate system in relation to the Earth, just as the Earth, the planets, and the sun are apart of an even greater interactive system governed by the laws of cause-and-effect.
Image: "Sunspot 930 from Monrovia" by RBerteig on Flickr courtesy of Creative Commons Licensing.
- 12-15-09
- Chris Kaplan's blog
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Duh!
Sunspots are not the cause. The SUN is. But luckily for us the planet has been cooling for the last 15 years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TqqWJugXzs
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a matter of balance
Perhaps it is neither....cooling or warming....just balancing.
he is like a man
using a candle
to look for the Sun
Rumi
Right-On
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Better hypothesis
web bots, again
The evidence is out There
Eyes Wide Shut
Because the politically motivated 'Experts' ARE the bad guys, as you will find out if you do a little Open Minded research.
Google the word climategate and you will read how 'Expert Assholes' at the University of East Anglia where the main 'research' for Anthropogenic Global Warming was done have been faking their findings for years.
Meanwhile nothing is being done about other forms of pollution and the nuclear lobby are gearing up to foist their demonic technology on us but unlike the 70's when they had lots of opposition globally, this time Nuclear is ok because it dosnt produce any 'greenhouse gasses'.
Anthropogenic global warming is the 911 of environmentalism.
Namaste
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INteresting
So experts are bad guys interesting. or is it just these experts or perhaps any experts who don't agree with you. I have read all about climate gate which Im not going to get into the details here because you are obviously passionate about it enough to label the thousands of independnt scientists from all over the world as assholes. which is a very open minded statemant i must say
the University of East Anglia is just one of hundres of research sites that studies climate change so even if there research is fatally flawed which it is not there is still an overwelming amount of evidence that says that gobal warming is caused by man. Who are your experts and why are they not assholes. The majority odf scientists who are global warming skeptics are employed t the oil industry. Im not making this up you can look it up but I guess you won't believe those articles anyway because they come from the evil media. Maybe you don't believe in education or maybe you beliebve that by educating yourself you become an asshole. I for one don't have he power to tell people they are assholes when I am not an expert on climatology. I have a very open nmind
and enjoy listening to experts on all kinds of issues becasue I believe in edcation and research which is why I enjoy this site usully becaus ethe writers here are sometimes very knowledgable on the subjects they write about. One more thing calling people assholes whom you disagree with really goes against the whole namaste thing you sign yor letter with
Free your mind....Ass will follow
Dude you are in the grip of some serious mind control.
Namaste.
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Ah-hahahaha "discredited",
Ah-hahahaha "discredited", he says. By who? Your favored ABCNNBBCBS commentator? A columnist at one of your favorite 'news'papers? 'Conspiracy theories' are a long, long way from being discredited. In fact with every day they get a bit more credible.
They predicted the economic crash, after all. No one who'd been following the movement was the least bit surprised, either by the crash or by anything done by the self-styled elite to exploit it after. All those people feeling let down by Obama's total failure to even attempt to live up to the image he put forth in the elections ... so shocked, dismayed, surprised. Except for the 'conspiracy theorists', of course, who more or less knew he was going to be Number 44 from the moment they (and no one else) noted him attending Bilderberg. I could go on and on ... but I'll just say one thing. Who is it that's been warning everyone they can, til they're blue in the face, about the dangers of GMOs to the health of our bodies and our biospheres more or less from the git-go?
OK, fair enough, to start with it was the environmentalists. Until they dropped that particular ball to go chasing after global warming. The further the naughties went, the less you heard about GMOs from the likes of Greenpeace, the more those GMOs were deployed in organism after 'enhanced' organism, and the more the only people you heard about that from was ... conspiracy theorists.
Right. "Discredited". Anyone who seriously believes that is welcome to go get their swine flu shot. If you manage to dodge the Guillan-Barre syndrome (and here's hoping there's nothing to those soul-modulating mind-control chip rumors), look us up when the cognitive dissonance finally gets to much for you. In the meantime, we have very little time so can we all stop believing people who JUST KEEP LYING TO US already?
The Revolution is Within
Warming Schmarming!
You anthropogenic climate ninnys make me laugh. Check out the link below. Sorry there isnt a Braille edition yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fl9fESYVFY&feature=player_embedded#
http://www.redicecreations.com/
Sure why not
Knowledge
Interesting how everyone seems so convinced that they "KNOW" whats really going on... I'll be the first to admit here that I have no clue!I study this stuff at school, I am an Environmental Science major, and certainly do respect the intelligence of my profs, but I can not in any way claim that I know the grand truths of atmospheric science due to my limited perspective as one human being in a rapidly changing world. Even if one has reviewed all the research, can anyone really claim to know what the intelligence of an entire planet/solar system is up to at the moment? Have you talked to the Sun lately? What did he tell you? Can any human being claim to truly know the secrets of geologic time? Can You? Think that Ice Core has the whole story scrawled in little bubbles, and that we can interpret that story with accuracy and precision?
How much of your opinion is informed by polarized political/social beliefs? How much of your thoughts are your own? How many were transmitted to you by another Charismatic "Truth knower"?
It may satisfy the ego to think that you know the REAL TRUTH and everyone else is wrong, but isn't that the kind of thinking we are finding the need to move ourselves beyond these days?
Friends, we are all along for the ride here- the best we can do is to harmonize with the other humans on this rock until the the day when things become clear to us. Its no secret we have wrecked the biosphere. Why are we arguing about the details of warming when we know that the Earth is getting fucked up already by all kinds of anthropogenic activities. Strip mining clear cutting, poisoning and drying of streams, extinction, starvation.
Who cares if the world is heating cooling or any other Damn thing lets get together and make it a better place to live with ways we already know how! Its no mystery.
Peace be with you.
Z