For what its worth, meterologist != climatologist. Anyway, yes, the sun has a strong effect on our climate. We do not have a strong effect on the sun. We do have a strong effect on our climate. One of these things we can exert a significant amount of control over, the other we cannot. Follow?
Global warming is an unfortunate phrase. Its not wrong, per se, the global average temperature is increasing. But more so its about climate change and what the effects of an increasing imbalance in the system are. And, surprise surprise, one of the things you get when you trap more energy in a system is increased volatility and extremes. In this case, more extreme weather events like, say, snow in Malibu. Here's a pretty good overview of the newly released climate data and what it means. It does address your point on solar minimums and maximas by the way: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/12/2008-temperature-summaries-and-spin/ Cheers, Judah On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > Snow in Vegas, snow in freaking Malibu. So not a warming trend. > > Another CNN meteorologist is saying what I have been saying- that we're too > puny to affect the earth's climate. The Sun controls our climate destiny, > not us. > > http://businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20081218205953.aspx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:283029 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
