Flash: The Big Yellow Thing in the Sky Affect our Climate

[yidnar]

Add Space.Com to the list of "Deniers", that is, the clear-headed people not snorting AGW Kool-Aid straight from the can. Apparently, that Big Yellow Thing in the Sky Affect our climate.

Never saw that coming.

"Even small changes in solar activity can impact Earth's climate in significant and surprisingly complex ways, researchers say.

The sun is a constant star when compared with many others in the galaxy. Some stars pulsate dramatically, varying wildly in size and brightness and even exploding. In comparison, the sun varies in the amount of light it emits by only 0.1 percent over the course of a relatively stable 11-year-long pattern known as the solar cycle.

Still, "the light reaching the top of the Earth's atmosphere provides about 2,500 times as much energy as the total of all other sources combined," solar physicist Greg Kopp at the University of Colorado told SPACE.com. As such, even 0.1 percent of the amount of light the sun emits exceeds all other energy sources the Earth's atmosphere sees combined, such as the radioactivity naturally emitted from Earth's core, Kopp explained."

Tiny Sun Activity Changes Affect Earth's Climate | Solar Sunspot Cycle | Space.com

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LOLOLOLOLOLOL.....ROTFLMAO......Oh, CrazyFruitcake, you are such a funny little retard.....I'm sure that the fact that the sun's activity affects the Earth's climate is a big news "FLASH" for an imbecile like you.....but if only you had the brains to actually read the articles you scrape off of some nutsoid denier cult blog and copy and paste here.....maybe you wouldn't always be making such a fool out of yourself in front of everybody.....

From your article....

Although the sun is the main source of heat for Earth, the researchers note that solar variability may have more of a regional effect than a global one. As such, solar variability is not the cause of the global warming seen in recent times.

"While the sun is by far the dominant energy source powering our climate system, do not assume that it is causing much of recent climate changes. It's pretty stable", solar physicist Greg Kopp at the University of Colorado said. "Think of it as an 800-pound gorilla in climate — it has the weight to cause enormous changes, but luckily for us, it's pretty placidly lazy. While solar changes have historically caused climate changes, the sun is mostly likely responsible for less than 15 percent of the global temperature increases we've seen over the last century, during which human-caused changes such as increased greenhouse gases caused the majority of warming".

what caused climate changes before humans ??the climate changes every few thousand yrs .

 

[RollingThunder]

Add Space.Com to the list of "Deniers", that is, the clear-headed people not snorting AGW Kool-Aid straight from the can. Apparently, that Big Yellow Thing in the Sky Affect our climate.

Never saw that coming.

"Even small changes in solar activity can impact Earth's climate in significant and surprisingly complex ways, researchers say.

The sun is a constant star when compared with many others in the galaxy. Some stars pulsate dramatically, varying wildly in size and brightness and even exploding. In comparison, the sun varies in the amount of light it emits by only 0.1 percent over the course of a relatively stable 11-year-long pattern known as the solar cycle.

Still, "the light reaching the top of the Earth's atmosphere provides about 2,500 times as much energy as the total of all other sources combined," solar physicist Greg Kopp at the University of Colorado told SPACE.com. As such, even 0.1 percent of the amount of light the sun emits exceeds all other energy sources the Earth's atmosphere sees combined, such as the radioactivity naturally emitted from Earth's core, Kopp explained."

Tiny Sun Activity Changes Affect Earth's Climate | Solar Sunspot Cycle | Space.com

Count down to "But but but TSI is down!! and Stupid 1 1/2 hour video on AGW" in 5, 4, 3

LOLOLOLOLOLOL.....ROTFLMAO......Oh, CrazyFruitcake, you are such a funny little retard.....I'm sure that the fact that the sun's activity affects the Earth's climate is a big news "FLASH" for an imbecile like you.....but if only you had the brains to actually read the articles you scrape off of some nutsoid denier cult blog and copy and paste here.....maybe you wouldn't always be making such a fool out of yourself in front of everybody.....

From your article....

Although the sun is the main source of heat for Earth, the researchers note that solar variability may have more of a regional effect than a global one. As such, solar variability is not the cause of the global warming seen in recent times.

"While the sun is by far the dominant energy source powering our climate system, do not assume that it is causing much of recent climate changes. It's pretty stable", solar physicist Greg Kopp at the University of Colorado said. "Think of it as an 800-pound gorilla in climate — it has the weight to cause enormous changes, but luckily for us, it's pretty placidly lazy. While solar changes have historically caused climate changes, the sun is mostly likely responsible for less than 15 percent of the global temperature increases we've seen over the last century, during which human-caused changes such as increased greenhouse gases caused the majority of warming".

what caused climate changes before humans ??

A variety of natural factors that are not causing the current warming.

If you're completely ignorant, why do you bother posting nonsense? Get educated first and then come back when you have something intelligent to say.

the climate changes every few thousand yrs .

No it doesn't. That's just ignorant twaddle.

 

[yidnar]

LOLOLOLOLOLOL.....ROTFLMAO......Oh, CrazyFruitcake, you are such a funny little retard.....I'm sure that the fact that the sun's activity affects the Earth's climate is a big news "FLASH" for an imbecile like you.....but if only you had the brains to actually read the articles you scrape off of some nutsoid denier cult blog and copy and paste here.....maybe you wouldn't always be making such a fool out of yourself in front of everybody.....

From your article....

Although the sun is the main source of heat for Earth, the researchers note that solar variability may have more of a regional effect than a global one. As such, solar variability is not the cause of the global warming seen in recent times.

"While the sun is by far the dominant energy source powering our climate system, do not assume that it is causing much of recent climate changes. It's pretty stable", solar physicist Greg Kopp at the University of Colorado said. "Think of it as an 800-pound gorilla in climate — it has the weight to cause enormous changes, but luckily for us, it's pretty placidly lazy. While solar changes have historically caused climate changes, the sun is mostly likely responsible for less than 15 percent of the global temperature increases we've seen over the last century, during which human-caused changes such as increased greenhouse gases caused the majority of warming".

what caused climate changes before humans ??

A variety of natural factors that are not causing the current warming.

If you're completely ignorant, why do you bother posting nonsense? Get educated first and then come back when you have something intelligent to say.

the climate changes every few thousand yrs .

No it doesn't. That's just ignorant twaddle.

ok my bad .but the weather does fluctuate every few thousand yrs . and it changes dramatically from time to time . NOVA | What Triggers Ice Ages?

 

[westwall]

LOLOLOLOLOLOL.....ROTFLMAO......Oh, CrazyFruitcake, you are such a funny little retard.....I'm sure that the fact that the sun's activity affects the Earth's climate is a big news "FLASH" for an imbecile like you.....but if only you had the brains to actually read the articles you scrape off of some nutsoid denier cult blog and copy and paste here.....maybe you wouldn't always be making such a fool out of yourself in front of everybody.....

From your article....

Although the sun is the main source of heat for Earth, the researchers note that solar variability may have more of a regional effect than a global one. As such, solar variability is not the cause of the global warming seen in recent times.

"While the sun is by far the dominant energy source powering our climate system, do not assume that it is causing much of recent climate changes. It's pretty stable", solar physicist Greg Kopp at the University of Colorado said. "Think of it as an 800-pound gorilla in climate — it has the weight to cause enormous changes, but luckily for us, it's pretty placidly lazy. While solar changes have historically caused climate changes, the sun is mostly likely responsible for less than 15 percent of the global temperature increases we've seen over the last century, during which human-caused changes such as increased greenhouse gases caused the majority of warming".

what caused climate changes before humans ??

A variety of natural factors that are not causing the current warming.

If you're completely ignorant, why do you bother posting nonsense? Get educated first and then come back when you have something intelligent to say.

the climate changes every few thousand yrs .

No it doesn't. That's just ignorant twaddle.

Why not? Occams Razor tells us you first have to remove those as causes before you can even begin to ascribe cause to some other agent. Why do you not follow the scientific method if you claim to be so scientific?

Enquiring minds want to know...

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Add Space.Com to the list of "Deniers", that is, the clear-headed people not snorting AGW Kool-Aid straight from the can. Apparently, that Big Yellow Thing in the Sky Affect our climate.

Never saw that coming.

"Even small changes in solar activity can impact Earth's climate in significant and surprisingly complex ways, researchers say.

The sun is a constant star when compared with many others in the galaxy. Some stars pulsate dramatically, varying wildly in size and brightness and even exploding. In comparison, the sun varies in the amount of light it emits by only 0.1 percent over the course of a relatively stable 11-year-long pattern known as the solar cycle.

Still, "the light reaching the top of the Earth's atmosphere provides about 2,500 times as much energy as the total of all other sources combined," solar physicist Greg Kopp at the University of Colorado told SPACE.com. As such, even 0.1 percent of the amount of light the sun emits exceeds all other energy sources the Earth's atmosphere sees combined, such as the radioactivity naturally emitted from Earth's core, Kopp explained."

Tiny Sun Activity Changes Affect Earth's Climate | Solar Sunspot Cycle | Space.com

Count down to "But but but TSI is down!! and Stupid 1 1/2 hour video on AGW" in 5, 4, 3

There is a big yellow thing in the sky? Why didn't someone tell me?

 

[IanC]

if the lower rate of solar activity was sufficient to warm the globe up to 1950 when CO2 supposedly kicked in....then why is a sustained period of even higher solar activity not able to continue that warming?

you dont have to keep turning up the heat under a pot of water to make it boil, a steady supply of extra heat is sufficient.

 

[RollingThunder]

if the lower rate of solar activity was sufficient to warm the globe up to 1950 when CO2 supposedly kicked in....then why is a sustained period of even higher solar activity not able to continue that warming?

you dont have to keep turning up the heat under a pot of water to make it boil, a steady supply of extra heat is sufficient.

There has been no "sustained period of even higher solar activity" in the last 50+ years. Solar activity declined, not increased.

A number of independent measurements of solar activity indicate the sun has shown a slight cooling trend since 1960, over the same period that global temperatures have been warming. Over the last 35 years of global warming, sun and climate have been moving in opposite directions. An analysis of solar trends concluded that the sun has actually contributed a slight cooling influence in recent decades (Lockwood 2008).

Figure 1: Annual global temperature change (thin light red) with 11 year moving average of temperature (thick dark red). Temperature from NASA GISS. Annual Total Solar Irradiance (thin light blue) with 11 year moving average of TSI (thick dark blue). TSI from 1880 to 1978 from Krivova et al 2007 (data). TSI from 1979 to 2009 from PMOD.

Foster and Rahmstorf (2011) used multiple linear regression to quantify and remove the effects of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and solar and volcanic activity from the surface and lower troposphere temperature data. They found that from 1979 to 2010, solar activity had a very slight cooling effect of between -0.014 and -0.023°C per decade, depending on the data set.

Like Foster and Rahmstorf, Lean and Rind (2008) performed a multiple linear regression on the temperature data, and found that while solar activity can account for about 11% of the global warming from 1889 to 2006, it can only account for 1.6% of the warming from 1955 to 2005, and had a slight cooling effect (-0.004°C per decade) from 1979 to 2005.

A number of studies have used a variety of statistical and physical approaches to determine the contribution of greenhouse gases and other effects to the observed global warming, like Lean & Rind and Foster & Rahmstorf. And like those studies, they find a relatively small solar contribution to global warming, particularly in recent decades (Figure 3).

This conclusion is confirmed by many studies finding that while the sun contributed to warming in the early 20th Century, it has had little contribution (most likely negative) in the last few decades:

Huber and Knutti (2011): "Even for a reconstruction with high variability in total irradiance, solar forcing contributed only about 0.07°C (0.03-0.13°C) to the warming since 1950."

Erlykin 2009: "We deduce that the maximum recent increase in the mean surface temperature of the Earth which can be ascribed to solar activity is 14% of the observed global warming."

Benestad 2009: "Our analysis shows that the most likely contribution from solar forcing a global warming is 7 ± 1% for the 20th century and is negligible for warming since 1980."

Lockwood 2008: "It is shown that the contribution of solar variability to the temperature trend since 1987 is small and downward; the best estimate is -1.3% and the 2? confidence level sets the uncertainty range of -0.7 to -1.9%."

Lean 2008: "According to this analysis, solar forcing contributed negligible long-term warming in the past 25 years and 10% of the warming in the past 100 years..."

Lockwood 2008: "The conclusions of our previous paper, that solar forcing has declined over the past 20 years while surface air temperatures have continued to rise, are shown to apply for the full range of potential time constants for the climate response to the variations in the solar forcings."

Ammann 2007: "Although solar and volcanic effects appear to dominate most of the slow climate variations within the past thousand years, the impacts of greenhouse gases have dominated since the second half of the last century."

Lockwood 2007: "The observed rapid rise in global mean temperatures seen after 1985 cannot be ascribed to solar variability, whichever of the mechanism is invoked and no matter how much the solar variation is amplified."

Foukal 2006 concludes "The variations measured from spacecraft since 1978 are too small to have contributed appreciably to accelerated global warming over the past 30 years."

Scafetta 2006 says "since 1975 global warming has occurred much faster than could be reasonably expected from the sun alone."

Usoskin 2005 conclude "during these last 30 years the solar total irradiance, solar UV irradiance and cosmic ray flux has not shown any significant secular trend, so that at least this most recent warming episode must have another source.

Solanki 2004 reconstructs 11,400 years of sunspot numbers using radiocarbon concentrations, finding "solar variability is unlikely to have been the dominant cause of the strong warming during the past three decades".

Haigh 2003 says "Observational data suggest that the Sun has influenced temperatures on decadal, centennial and millennial time-scales, but radiative forcing considerations and the results of energy-balance models and general circulation models suggest that the warming during the latter part of the 20th century cannot be ascribed entirely to solar effects."

Stott 2003 increased climate model sensitivity to solar forcing and still found "most warming over the last 50 yr is likely to have been caused by increases in greenhouse gases."

Solanki 2003 concludes "the Sun has contributed less than 30% of the global warming since 1970."

Lean 1999 concludes "it is unlikely that Sun–climate relationships can account for much of the warming since 1970."

Waple 1999 finds "little evidence to suggest that changes in irradiance are having a large impact on the current warming trend."

Frolich 1998 concludes "solar radiative output trends contributed little of the 0.2°C increase in the global mean surface temperature in the past decade."

(source)

 

[skookerasbil]

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The world will need cheap energy........not expensive energy.

Nobody cares abut the science shit..............still.

 

[hazlnut]

Add Space.Com to the list of "Deniers", that is, the clear-headed people not snorting AGW Kool-Aid straight from the can. Apparently, that Big Yellow Thing in the Sky Affect our climate.

Never saw that coming.

"Even small changes in solar activity can impact Earth's climate in significant and surprisingly complex ways, researchers say.

The sun is a constant star when compared with many others in the galaxy. Some stars pulsate dramatically, varying wildly in size and brightness and even exploding. In comparison, the sun varies in the amount of light it emits by only 0.1 percent over the course of a relatively stable 11-year-long pattern known as the solar cycle.

Still, "the light reaching the top of the Earth's atmosphere provides about 2,500 times as much energy as the total of all other sources combined," solar physicist Greg Kopp at the University of Colorado told SPACE.com. As such, even 0.1 percent of the amount of light the sun emits exceeds all other energy sources the Earth's atmosphere sees combined, such as the radioactivity naturally emitted from Earth's core, Kopp explained."

Tiny Sun Activity Changes Affect Earth's Climate | Solar Sunspot Cycle | Space.com

Count down to "But but but TSI is down!! and Stupid 1 1/2 hour video on AGW" in 5, 4, 3

Hey, dopey, why you posting an article unrelated to man-made global warming and climate change?

Huh, dopey?

Why, dopey, why??

 

[skookerasbil]

Add Space.Com to the list of "Deniers", that is, the clear-headed people not snorting AGW Kool-Aid straight from the can. Apparently, that Big Yellow Thing in the Sky Affect our climate.

Never saw that coming.

"Even small changes in solar activity can impact Earth's climate in significant and surprisingly complex ways, researchers say.

The sun is a constant star when compared with many others in the galaxy. Some stars pulsate dramatically, varying wildly in size and brightness and even exploding. In comparison, the sun varies in the amount of light it emits by only 0.1 percent over the course of a relatively stable 11-year-long pattern known as the solar cycle.

Still, "the light reaching the top of the Earth's atmosphere provides about 2,500 times as much energy as the total of all other sources combined," solar physicist Greg Kopp at the University of Colorado told SPACE.com. As such, even 0.1 percent of the amount of light the sun emits exceeds all other energy sources the Earth's atmosphere sees combined, such as the radioactivity naturally emitted from Earth's core, Kopp explained."

Tiny Sun Activity Changes Affect Earth's Climate | Solar Sunspot Cycle | Space.com

Count down to "But but but TSI is down!! and Stupid 1 1/2 hour video on AGW" in 5, 4, 3

Hey, dopey, why you posting an article unrelated to man-made global warming and climate change?

Huh, dopey?

Why, dopey, why??

 

[RollingThunder]

Add Space.Com to the list of "Deniers", that is, the clear-headed people not snorting AGW Kool-Aid straight from the can. Apparently, that Big Yellow Thing in the Sky Affect our climate.

Never saw that coming.

"Even small changes in solar activity can impact Earth's climate in significant and surprisingly complex ways, researchers say.

The sun is a constant star when compared with many others in the galaxy. Some stars pulsate dramatically, varying wildly in size and brightness and even exploding. In comparison, the sun varies in the amount of light it emits by only 0.1 percent over the course of a relatively stable 11-year-long pattern known as the solar cycle.

Still, "the light reaching the top of the Earth's atmosphere provides about 2,500 times as much energy as the total of all other sources combined," solar physicist Greg Kopp at the University of Colorado told SPACE.com. As such, even 0.1 percent of the amount of light the sun emits exceeds all other energy sources the Earth's atmosphere sees combined, such as the radioactivity naturally emitted from Earth's core, Kopp explained."

Tiny Sun Activity Changes Affect Earth's Climate | Solar Sunspot Cycle | Space.com

Count down to "But but but TSI is down!! and Stupid 1 1/2 hour video on AGW" in 5, 4, 3

Hey, dopey, why you posting an article unrelated to man-made global warming and climate change?

Huh, dopey?

Why, dopey, why??

[...the usual retarded drivel...]

What's that, kooks, there's no "proof" you have a brain??? LOL. Everybody knows that. In spite of your 'best' (read pathetic) efforts, you have never been able to prove that you have a brain. All of the evidence points to a 'no-brain' condition in you, kookster, but we know how you feel about 'evidence'. Which is, of course, another symptom of your brainless state.

 

[skookerasbil]

 

[RollingThunder]

[...another meaningless, idiotic post, as usual....]

Thanks for providing more proof that you have no brain.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

 

[mamooth]

Hey Skook, Frank, how'd Romney's inevitable crushing landslide victory turn out for you?

AHHAHAHHAHAHHAHHA.

Just pointing out the intelligence of Skook and Frank. Skook, just how many funny photos bragging about Romney's inevitable upcoming crushing landslide win did you post? Must have been in the hundreds. Wow, that makes you look dumb now. How can you show your face?