Sorry, couldn’t resist the pun.
Here’s the scoop: The earth’s albedo (i.e., the amount of light it reflects) is increasing. It had been doing down. Now it’s going up. Scientists don’t know why.
Since a higher albedo means a cooler planet, maybe it’s a sign that global warming ain’t gonna warm. Maybe it’s all a big cycle.
Or maybe not.
Was refreshing to see the scientists in the story saying that their findings neither confirm nor disconfirm the greenhouse effect and that more study is needed. A little scholarly caution does the soul a world of good.
Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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I wonder if maybe the light output of the sun has increased…
The North Atlantic Occilation is right on schedule. It has a 1300 year period. The Medieval Warm ended about 800 years ago, putting the screws on the Greenlanders. You can still see the ghost forests in the Canadian arctic, north of timberline, from the Medieval Warm. Greenlending farmsteads continue to be melted out from the ice.
I’m not sure that England is a wine-producing country again, as it was in Roman times.