Is the sun responsible for global warming?

Question

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/18/wsun18.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/07/18/ixnewstop.html

Answer 1

Not the current global warming, no.  Just look at the data and that's clear.

Over the past 30 years, all solar effects on the global climate have been in the direction of (slight) cooling, not warming.  This is during a very rapid period of global warming.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/62902...

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/pro...

Here is a plot from the Stanford Solar Center:

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-...

And here is how the solar physicists at the Stanford Solar Center feel about the Sun's role in the recent warming:

"Some uncertainty remains about the role of natural variations in causing climate change. Solar variability certainly plays a minor role, but it looks like only a quarter of the recent variations can be attributed to the Sun. At most."

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-...

Answer 2

no we are, the sun gives us heat

Answer 3

Yes - Scientist from NASA and Russia have made the link between the Sun and global warming.  NASA attributes at least half of all warming to the Sun, the other half they blame on natural occurrences, and the least amount on man.

"Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy - almost throughout the last century - growth in its intensity," Abdusamatov told RIA Novosti in an interview.

"It is no secret that when they go up, temperatures in the world's oceans trigger the emission of large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. So the common view that man's industrial activity is a deciding factor in global warming has emerged from a misinterpretation of cause and effect relations."

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070115/590789...

Of the many trends that appear to cause fluctuations in the Sun’s energy, those that last decades to centuries are the most likely to have a measurable impact on the Earth’s climate in the foreseeable future. Many researchers believe the steady rise in sunspots and faculae since the late seventeenth century may be responsible for as much as half of the 0.6 degrees of global warming over the last 110 years (IPCC, 2001)

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library...

Then there is this chart from NASA that plots the number of Sunspots to the Earths climate.

http://www.research.noaa.gov/spotlite/ar...

Yet there will always be those with an agenda that will claim they know more than NASA scientists.

Answer 4

yes

Answer 5

man made global warming doesn't exist!!! we are not even getting hotter, statistics show that the planet has actually cooled by a few degrees over the last few years!

Answer 6

global warming is not true

Answer 7

the sun is responsible for solar warming yes

Answer 8

http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/002...

http://motls.blogspot.com/2006/05/global...

http://motls.blogspot.com/2006/07/carbon...

http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editor...  pt1

http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editor... pt2

Answer 9

no just praying that it will come again. below 0 here

Answer 10

No we are, the sun is responsible for keeping us alive.

Answer 11

Yes which is why it isnt just the earth that is warming- there are other natural contributors and humans have very little effect- fact over scare tactics

Answer 12

Yes, since the time the sun and the earth formed the sun has been warming earth up!

Answer 13

thats an old old article "Last Updated: 11:15pm BST 17/07/2004"

Try a scientific paper from the royal society

http://publishing.royalsociety.org/media...

Its really ( for the hundredth time) not the sun.

Answer 14

Absolutely, we are so insignificant.

Answer 15

Of course however we are increasing it another fatal 3%

Answer 16

From the very same scientist: Sami Solanki :

"since about 1980, while the total solar radiation, its ultraviolet component, and the cosmic ray intensity all exhibit the 11-year solar periodicity, there has otherwise been no significant increase in their values. In contrast, the Earth has warmed up considerably within this time period. This means that the Sun is not the cause of the present global warming"

While the newspaper says:

"A study by Swiss and German scientists suggests that increasing radiation from the sun is responsible for recent global climate changes"

CONTRADICTION ??????? ISN´T IT ????

Answer 17

YES  for the last 8000 years.  "An Inconvenient Truth" does not acknowledge "The Inconstant Sun".

Answer 18

Yes and no...

as well as No and yes...

(reminds me of my crazy science teacher in high school)..lol

We have helped depleted the ozone layer, which allows more of the sun (to kick our butt)

and the sun is getting closer, which allows again (the sun to kick more of our butt) (this is because its growing as it dies)..

and the earth has had major volcano's which (again allows the sun to kick our butt)  should I go on...lol

Answer 19

It's kinda obvious isn't it?