Possible global warming?

Question

Is it possible that the distance from the earth (as well as the other planets) to the sun is decreasing, and causing potential global warming? I have read that the earths orbit varies 91 million miles-94.5 million miles to the sun. Is it possible that we are currently on a closer orbit? And that the suns output increases 0.05% every decade. Or possibly a culmination of thoes and everything else?

Answer 1

No - man is culprit - stop looking for an excuse...!

Answer 2

No.  Our orbit is fine and well within tolerances prescribed by the labour liberal party.  It turns out that since Gauss measured the Earth's magnetic field in 1870, it has decreased 5%.  Now then, what protects us from all the energy and particles that make up the solar wind?  The magnetic field!!!  No one has thought of that except me!!  So, if Al Gore has observed an increase in mean temperature, it is due to the *decrease* in magnetic field.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.

OMG!! king toon n faertin.  Dear boobie, The mean temperature of the planet Earth has varied between plus 20 F for warm ages and minus 20 F for ice ages, for the last 4.5 billion years.  If we are right in the middle of the temperature band, where is the crisis?  I really enjoy kooks that focus on their own personal climate change experiences, plus Al Gores 100 year temperature theory, while totally ignoring 4.5 billion years of constant climate change and making fun of people that think the Earth is only 6000 years old.  Do the math.

Answer 3

* There is no "scientific consensus" on global warming

* Climate is always changing – with or without man

* The Medieval Warm Period was significantly warmer than temperatures today – and was a golden age for agriculture, innovation, and lifespan

* Most of Antarctica is actually getting colder

* Hurricanes are not getting worse – our tendency to build houses in their path is getting greater

* Many big businesses lobby for global warming policies that will increase their profits – and our costs

* The media only recently abandoned the "global cooling" scare

* The real agenda behind the "global warming" scare? A massive expansion of government control over the economy and our lives

Answer 4

The sun goes through sunspot cycle every 11 years.  When the sunspots appear, the sun becomes hotter.  The more heat the sun throws off, the warmer other planets get.  Now it would appear that the sunspot activity has declined.  

On the other hand here in the Northern states, the last few months have been abnormally cool.  What happened here is the jet stream, a fast moving column of wind high in the atmosphere was parked somewhere in the South pulling cooler Northern air down into where it should have been warmer.  In the last few days the jet stream has moved back farther north and now it's bringing the warmer, moister air back and temperatures are close to normal again.  

Theoretically, you could have summer in winter if the jet stream moves north far enough.  It has happened, 80 degrees in February for a few days.

Answer 5

No....it's a joke the government is trying to see if you believe them...and obviously you do.   do a little more research then you can argue about global warming and the ozone layer decreasing and all that c**p.

Answer 6

70 MILLION TONS!!! of CO2 is pumped into our appleskin thin atmosphere by MAN every day. THIS IS THE CAUSE!

NASA says GW is man-made. NASA sent us to the moon! But some dont even believe that. Some still believe the earth is flat in fact.

Go to school, get educated. The Fossil fuel industry Sheisters are everywhere trying to confuse you with their snake oil. GW is real.

Dont believe the crackpots. Most are over 60 and dont CARE if the earth boils because THEYLL BE DEAD ANYWAY.

Answer 7

Be sure to read the questions at the end!!

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> Into the wild green yonder

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> May 11, 2008

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> By Walter E. Williams - Now that another Earth Day has come and gone,

> let's look at some environmentalists' predictions they would prefer we

> forget.

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> At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel

> Calder warned, "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside

> nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for

> mankind." C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said,

> "The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and

consistent enough

> that it will not soon be reversed."

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> In 1968, Professor Paul Ehrlich, former Vice President Al Gore's hero

> and mentor, predicted a major food shortage in the U.S. and "in the

> 1970s... hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death."

> Mr. Ehrlich forecast 65 million Americans would die of starvation

> between 1980 and 1989, and by 1999 the U.S. population would have

> declined to 22.6 million. Mr. Ehrlich's predictions about England were

> gloomier: "If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England

> will not exist in the year 2000."

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> In 1972, a report for the Club of Rome warned the world would run out

> of gold by 1981, mercury and silver by 1985, tin by 1987 and

> petroleum, copper, lead and natural gas by 1992.

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> Gordon Taylor, in his 1970 book "The Doomsday Book," said

Americans

> were using 50 percent of the world's resources and "by 2000 they

> [Americans] will, if permitted, be using all of them."

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> In 1975, the Environmental Fund took out full-page ads warning, "The

> World as we know it will likely be ruined by the year 2000."

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> Harvard University biologist George Wald in 1970 warned, "civilization

> will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken

> against problems facing mankind." That was the same year Sen. Gaylord

> Nelson warned, in Look Magazine, that by 1995 "somewhere between 75

> and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct."

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> It's not just latter-day doomsayers who have been wrong; doomsayers

> have always been wrong. In 1885, the U.S. Geological Survey announced

> there was "little or no chance" of oil being discovered in California,

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and a few years later they said the same about Kansas and Texas. In

> 1939, the U.S. Interior Department said American oil supplies would

> last only another 13 years. In 1949, the interior secretary said the

> end of U.S. oil supplies was in sight.

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> Having learned nothing from its earlier erroneous claims, in 1974 the

> U.S. Geological Survey advised us that the U.S. had only a 10-year

> supply of natural gas. In fact,, according to the American Gas

> Association, there's a 1,000- to 2,500-year supply.

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> Here are my questions: In 1970, when environmentalists were making

> predictions of manmade global cooling and the threat of an ice age and

> millions of Americans starving to death, what kind of government

> policy should we have undertaken to prevent such a calamity?

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> When Mr. Ehrlich predicted England would not exist in the

year 2000,

> what steps should the British Parliament have taken in 1970 to prevent

> such a dire outcome? In 1939, when the Interior Department warned we

> only had oil supplies for another 13 years, what actions should

> President Roosevelt have taken? Finally, what makes us think

> environmental alarmism is any more correct now the tune has been

> switched to manmade global warming?

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> Here are a few facts: More than 95 percent of the greenhouse effect is

> the result of water vapor in Earth's atmosphere. Without the

> greenhouse effect, Earth's average temperature would be zero degrees

> Fahrenheit. Most climate change is due to the orbital eccentricities

> of Earth and variations in the sun's output. On top of that, natural

> wetlands produce more greenhouse gas contributions annually than all

> human sources combined.

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> Walter

E. Williams is a nationally syndicated columnist and a

> professor of economics at George Mason University.

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