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The Waning Sun: The Sun and Global Warming Responsibility
George R. Hunter / GeoEthos.com
The fault, dear Brutus, may not be in our star according to a study published in Preceding A, a journal of the Royal Society, that argues there is no causal link between solar activity and the warming of the Earth.
The article was written partly in response to The Great Global Warming Swindle, a British television program that contravened the science behind global warming. The program claimed the increase in solar activity during the 20th century was responsible for warming temperatures "All the graphs they showed stopped in about 1980, and I knew why, because things diverged after that," Dr. Mike Lockwood, a chief scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, told the BBC, "You can't just ignore bits of data that you don't like."
Dr. Lockwood believes the graphs omitted data after 1980 because of a shift in 1985, in which the solar output declined while the temperatures on Earth continued to rise.
The IPCC report last February – which concluded that greenhouse gases were responsible for global warming – concurred with the journal report, " that greenhouse gases were about 13 times more responsible than solar changes for rising global temperature," the BBC article said. |
