Not a sceptic, but a realist Wrote:
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> Sun activity has been muted?
Yes. We have been in a decade-long "Solar Minimum," with decreased solar flare activity...
http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1474917/is_something_wrong_with_our_sun/
Even the most
> alarmists of climatologists have pointed out that
> sun activity has played a large part in warming
> trends. Both CO2 and the sun feed off of one
> another. Greater solar activity heats greenhouse
> gases more intensely.
Yes. And solar activity has been at a low-point for a decade. There is absolutely nothing in the current solar cycle the corresponds with increased warming.
If solar activity were at a
> low point in the cycle, the temperature rise would
> be negligible.
It is at a low point. How do you reconcile this??? There is no debate about it.
This isn't an argument that
> greenhoues gases are innocent, but we should keep
> in mind what a greenhouse is and how/why it works.
> Periods of lesser solar activity will not heat
> greenhouse gases as quickly - that is the
> scientific fact. Is CO2 a problem? Absolutely.
> It is a problem because you don't want it there
> when the sun is at its hottest. But, when the sun
> is less active, it is less of a problem.
Then explain why the Earth is warming as quickly as it is if solar activity is at a low?
The right-wing whack-jobs should have read up on current solar activity before buying into this bogus theory. I have a theory called Intelligent Design I want to sell you.