MrSinatra;186523 Wrote: > OT: > can someone point me to the solar data that was mentioned earlier?
With apologies for continuing to be off-topic, but it'll be my only post. There was a TV programme on in the UK last night that discussed this whole topic - here's a very quick summary of some of the comments - again their comments not mine, so not flaming please! CO2 levels apparently lag rising temperatures by about 800 years, the time it takes for the seas to warm up and release more into the atmosphere (the sea is the largest source of CO2 by far apparently) - Al Gore misrepresented this data on his film according to some. Volcanoes are the next biggest emitter of CO2, cars and planes are way down the list. There is no proven connection showing CO2 levels leading temperature rises, there *is* a closer connection between Sun spot activity and temperature rises. More sun spots, higher temperatures - and this has been measured for centuries by observers. It has been a lot warmer and colder than this in the past - ice records show this and we've been warming up for decades already, long before the level of industrialisation in China and India contributed anything. England was hotter than now and covered in vineyards in medieval times, and the Thames occasionally froze over a few centuries later. Europe was covered in jungle for a long time too. You stand a lot more chance of obtaining funding as a scientist if you are pro global warming than against it. Can't vouch for that, but it makes sense in a perverse way, scientific endevear is closely tied to funding nowadays - and getting published seems to need more and more outlandish claims. Saying everything is normal doesn't cut it. OK, sorry for being OT, but for those of you interested, the programme was called something like "the Global Warming Swindle". It's always good to get a balanced view of all the arguments. -- CardinalFang ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CardinalFang's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=962 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33324 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
