The Planet That Couldn’t Come In Out Of The Sun

Sunstorm_1If a study currently being reported on holds up, a major crack in the global warming rhetoric has just developed.

Standard global warming rhetoric holds (a) that the earth is getting warmer on average and (b) that this is due to a buildup of "greenhouse gasses" in the atmosphere.

There are problems with both of these assertions, and a new study reluctantly points out a problem with the second.

The authors of the study are still advocates of global warming theory, but they concede that it appears that a significant chunk of global warming appears to be due not to greenhouse gasses but to something that most definitely warms the earth: the sun!

According to the study 10 to 30% of the warming "documented" in the last twenty or so years is due to changes in the sun’s activity.

That’s a striking first admission.

Future admissions might include that more than just 10 to 30% is due to solar activity–or even that the earth hasn’t warmed as much as we think. (There is reason to think that the data we have may not be reliable.)

LiveScience carries a brief story on all this, and as usual LiveScience is firmly in the standard global warming camp (as reflected in the article), but it’s still worth your while to

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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."

17 thoughts on “The Planet That Couldn’t Come In Out Of The Sun”

  1. 40 years ago,in grade school, we were taught that we are still in an “Ice Age” because it is not common for this planet to have ice caps: ‘If “ice age” is used to refer to long, generally cool, intervals during which glaciers advance and retreat, we are still in one today. Our modern climate represents a very short, warm period between glacial advances.’ This quote is from the Illinois State Museum web site.
    They told us 40 years ago that the earth was warming and that glaciers were retreating and that this is normal and to be expected. Now the normal state of the earth’s climatic cycles is politcized. It is now getting warmer and it will get cooler again. They will not doubt polticize that too.

  2. In the times of Jesus, there was no snow in the Holy Land, somthing unknown until much later.
    Greenland was thusly called after the Vikings found a lush land which they settled for decades, thanks to a temperate climate.
    Before the Small Ice Age in the 15th century, European fields yielded one more crop than nowadays.
    So, yes, the Earth is warming up! Alas, it’s still recovering from the Small Ice Age!

  3. When I was at university my Astrophysics prof mentioned that solar activity *might* be behind global warming, but that the research was still inconclusive.

  4. The planetary temperature is rising! The polar ice caps are melting! On Mars. (Probably due to the internal combustion engine).

  5. So, scientists now think that the sun might have something to do with earth being warm, eh?
    What will thoses scientists think up next?

  6. If the earth keeps getting warmer, think of all the prime real estate in Antarctica. Not to mention the most fertile land. No farming in the last 15,000 years!

  7. Yes, but then the Old Ones might thaw out and all their Shoggoths go on a killing-spree. Oh, the humanity . . . uh, SOMETHING-ity!

  9. Explode the sunlight here, Gentlemen, and you explode the universe. Explode the sunlight here, and a chain reaction will occur, direct to the sun itself. And to all the planets that sunlight touches. To every planet in the universe.
    This why you must be stopped!

  10. You know what this means?
    It means the solution to global warming is tinfoil. Lots and lots of tinfoil people. Tinfoil hats, tinfoil clothes, tinfoil houses, tinfoil everything.

  12. ***useless bit of nostalgic personal history***
    When I was a little girl (yes,I can say that without laughing, I was premature) I used to go round to my friends house to play after tea. During the summer she would be playing outside in the garden at the back of her house, so I would have to go and seek her out, which was sometimes fun, and sometimes not.
    I was startled one day, to discover my friend’s mother stark naked and lying on a bed of aluminium foil behind the shed…seriously wierd, and seriously unhealthy.
    God Bless

  13. Jimmy;
    What percentage of people do you think have read Lovecraft? Unfortunatly not enough to understand some of your comments. But the few who do enjoy them.

  15. The latest on this idea of global warming due to increased solar activity found that solar activity had actually decreased in recent decades, which means the earth should have been getting colder. So much for that idea! Man-made global warming is looking fairly unassailable at this point.

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