Could that huge ball of fire in the sky have anything to do with global climate?

Question

I've noticed that the AGW zealots like to pretend that it doesn't even exist.

Answer 1

Yes, and its radiation is trapped by the gasses in our atmosphere.  

Do you think that scientists have never considered the sun's influence, that it has never been studied or measured?  If your theory has scientific merit, where are the papers showing that?  

Here's your answer:

http://journals.royalsociety.org/content...

Mike Lockwood of the UK's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Claus Froehlich of the World Radiation Center in Switzerland published a paper in October that concludes:

"There is considerable evidence for solar influence on the Earth's pre-industrial climate and the Sun may well have been a factor in post-industrial climate change in the first half of the last century. Here we show that over the past 20 years, all the trends in the Sun that could have had an influence on the Earth's climate have been in the opposite direction to that required to explain the observed rise in global mean temperatures."

So no, all the trends of the sun show that it is not a primary factor in current warming.

Since you ignore the science, doesn't that make YOU the zealot?

Answer 2

yes it provides all of the energy on earth but there has been little change in solar activity so how could it be changing the climate on earth?

btw the sun is not on fire.

Answer 3

Are you talking about the sun??

Wiat the sun is a star..

Well if theres a huge ball of fire and its closer too ourr atomuspere than it very well could be..

Answer 4

The last time I flew too close, the wax melted and almost fell to my death -Icarus.

Answer 5

yes.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/2...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/199...

http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?...

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?i...

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Pa...

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/su...

Answer 6

i live in antartica

Answer 7

There is no way the sun could cause global warming. Don't you know it's caused by cow gas just like all the animal rights groups say?

Answer 8

Yet another pointless straw man argument. No one has ever, in the entire history of climate science, said that the sun doesn't affect the climate.

Are changes in solar output causing the current climate change? That would be a legitimate question. And the answer is almost certainly no. There simply haven't been any trends in solar activity sufficient to have produced the bulk of 20th century warming. And all "fingerprints" of the warming indicate an enhanced greenhouse effect as the cause (more warming at night, cooling in the stratosphere, etc.).

Answer 9

if all the environmentalists stopped breathing (producing CO2) wouldn't that solve the global warming problem--less greenhouse gases?

Answer 10

like what?  The sun, yes.  a commit I don't think so less it hit the earth and mass volcanism accrued

Answer 11

Believe it or not, most of the climate scientists who authored the IPCC report are vaguely familiar with the sun.  In fact, they write extensively about it and still conclude the global warming (i.e. the current warming trend of our planet) is caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases which trap more of the suns energy than is required to maintain a stable temperature.

The Max Planck Institute actually says:

"solar activity affects the climate but plays only a minor role in the current global warming"

http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsD...

Answer 12

Yup.  You can tell b/c at night, when there is no sunlight...it gets colder.  

Good question, though.

Answer 13

A little bit in the past leading up to now.

How can Mercury be so close to the sun?

We humans can survive because we're this far away from that big ball of fire, but the fire is not a flame.  We feel a little burp from the sun every now and then, but it is a consuming fire; it is its own fuel.  

Bring in the magnetism of the planets.

Mercury can be so close to the sun because of the opposite magnetism.

What I'm trying to explain is the sun is a magnet and the planets are opposing forces.  But, the solar system is a stable atom.

But the sun is drawing out the molten rock of the earth and at this time the rock is at the surface or near the surface and it is warming both the atmosphere and the surface.