Global Warming????? Do you realize that Mars has seen natural global warming recently? Is this is a man made influence or is it part of a natural cycle I wonder? Scientists have noted the sun is burning hotter the past few years. I wonder now, bare with me, since the sun that heats and warms our planet is burning hotter, could this somehow be linked to our planet being warmer? Hmmmmm, tough to sort that one out, duh. I found an article in Time Magazine from 1974 where it speaks of how by now we are going to be in an Ice Age. In other articles they predicted by 2006 we would be in an Ice Age. I wonder in 2040 if we look back how wrong global warming ideas of today will be. Here is the link to the 1970%26#039;s article, interesting.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articl...

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5 months ago

Cleo, the sun burning hotter has everything to do with it. Did you read the link I posted? Does that not seem silly what we know today? Do you think your views will look silly in 2008 I mean 2040? I bet you drive a Prius.

5 months ago

And Cleo from the article I posted: The changing weather is apparently connected with differences in the amount of energy that the earth%26#039;s surface receives from the sun. Changes in the earth%26#039;s tilt and distance from the sun could, for instance, significantly increase or decrease the amount of solar radiation falling on either hemisphere—thereby altering the earth%26#039;s climate.

5 months ago

Bob, you are wrong: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Is+the+...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Moreover, scientists have not said the Sun is burning hotter the past few years. Scientists have said that solar irradiance has remained essentially unchanged over the past 30 years (even decreased slightly) as the planet has experienced its greatest warming.

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

Here%26#039;s the data, see for yourself:

http://www.acrim.com/RESULTS/Earth%20Obs...
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-...
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/p...
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/arc...

You can do a Yahoo search and find a website to tell you anything you want. You have to look at the scientific data to determine what%26#039;s correct.

Time Magazine is not a scientific journal. In the 1970s scientists were predicting global warming, not cooling, as this study of the scientific literature concluded:

%26quot;Thomas Peterson of the National Climatic Data Center surveyed dozens of peer-reviewed scientific articles from 1965 to 1979 and found that only seven supported global cooling, while 44 predicted warming. Peterson says 20 others were neutral in their assessments of climate trends.%26quot;

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/...

When you look at all the facts, it%26#039;s clear that scientists are saying that humans are causing the current warming, because that%26#039;s what all the scientific evidence indicates.

http://www.logicalscience.com/consensus/...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;... 43% 10 Votes

If you follow your own yahoo search link, the 3rd item found is from NASA. Reading only the title or first few lines, I can see why you%26#039;re confused. But if you read the entire NASA article you%26#039;d see this statement:

%26quot;Although the inferred increase of solar irradiance in 24 years, about 0.1 percent, is not enough to cause notable climate change, the trend would be important if maintained for a century or more.%26quot;

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news...

They are NOT saying the recent warming was caused by an increase in solar output, but that it could happen if maintained for a %26quot;century or more%26quot;. Others have already linked to definitive studies that show most climate scientists conclude that only about 10% of the recent warming could be attributed to solar or orbital changes. 0% 0 Votes

The Sun is not burning hotter. It%26#039;s been getting slightly cooler for years. Proof.

%26quot;Recent oppositely directed trends in solar
climate forcings and the global mean surface
air temperature%26quot;, Lockwood and Frolich (2007), Proc. R. Soc. A
doi:10.1098/rspa.2007.1880

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

News article at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6290228.st...

%26quot;Global cooling%26quot; was an idea of a few guys, with no good data, who got a lot more attention in the media than they deserved.

They were very much like the so-called %26quot;skeptics%26quot; of today. If fact one of them is a %26quot;skeptic%26quot;. Can%26#039;t give up on his old idea, I guess.

They were nothing at all like today%26#039;s vast numbers of global warming scientists, backed by a mountain of data, and by EVERY major scientific organization. More here (%26quot;The Global Cooling Myth%26quot;):

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=9...

EDIT - I see from the speed of your response you didn%26#039;t even glance at Lockwood and Frohlich. It%26#039;s a recent paper, and considered the definitive study.

Solanki%26#039;s work from 2004 (which is what you quoted) is about sunspots, which have been proven to not be the cause. See:

%26quot;The Trouble with Sunspots%26quot; from 2006

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/arc... 9% 2 Votes

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/arc...

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=9...

http://environment.newscientist.com/chan...

http://environment.newscientist.com/chan... 4% 1 Vote

interesting that increased storm activity,floods %26amp; droughts were claimed to be caused by clobal cooling 25 years ago %26amp; caused by global warming today.
maybe we should all calm down %26amp; recognize that the weather has never been the same for very long %26amp; never will be. fortunately we cant do anything about it anyway because we obviously dont understand how it works any better than the ancients who blamed bad weather on angry gods.
its too bad we%26#039;ve already crippled our economy with misguided %26amp; expensive regulations in an attempt to change the climate to the cooler one we were afraid of back then. 0% 0 Votes

Yeah, good point. But I%26#039;m still not sure if its true or not. 35% 8 Votes

I think Global Warming is happening.

It has nothing to do with the sun getting hotter... the sun is millions (if not billions) of degrees Celsius. It%26#039;s temperature fluctuates constantly.

Global warming has to do with greenhouse gasses (CO2, CFC, So2, NH4...etc) clogging up the atmosphere and preventing heat from escaping. 0% 0 Votes