"No-sun link", says study: So What's Warming the other Planets??
A new study is claiming there is 'sun-ink' (i.e. solar cause) to global warming. Here's what a BBC report today says about it:
A new scientific study concludes that changes in the Sun's output cannot be causing modern-day climate change. It shows that for the last 20 years, the Sun's output has declined, yet temperatures on Earth have risen.
It also shows that modern temperatures are not determined by the Sun's effect on cosmic rays, as has been claimed. Writing in the Royal Society's journal Proceedings A, the researchers say cosmic rays may have affected climate in the past, but not the present.
"This should settle the debate," said Mike Lockwood, from the UK's Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, who carried out the new analysis together with Claus Froehlich from the World Radiation Center in Switzerland.
It is fascinating how the BBC (which has been broadcasting this extensively today) runs with a single new study so quickly that supports its own views, but has to have its arm twisted over months to run stories on studies that challenge the man-made GW theory. However, any serious study deserves attention and this will receive it, which will take a little time.
In the meanwhile, consider this: much larger studies (filling whole books) have shown how natural solar activity is the root cause of global warming and cooling. And perhaps the two researchers (of whom I have not heard) would be interesting in answering this: as we know that Mars, Jupiter and other planets are warming to, what pray, is warming them (if not the sun, as the only constant factor)?
More in this in due course.
Peter C Glover
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As Dave Vance of A Tangled Web says here this report only looks at the last 20 years. A longer view will show a different picture.
The eagerness of the BBC to report this was no surprise. I wonder if they would have given it the same prominence if the conclusion were different.
Also this is the only place this" report" has been mentioned. I would have thought that anyone doing a scientific study of the heating of the earth that confined their research data to the last twenty years would be laughed out of the lecture theatre.