The Sun Also Sets
An interesting op-ed in the Investors Business Daily The Sun Also Sets discusses studies of the sun.
“Solar activity has overpowered any effect that CO2 has had before, and it most likely will again,” Patterson says. “If we were to have even a medium-sized solar minimum, we could be looking at a lot more bad effects than ‘global warming’ would have had.”
In 2005, Russian astronomer Khabibullo Abdusamatov made some waves — and not a few enemies in the global warming “community” — by predicting that the sun would reach a peak of activity about three years from now, to be accompanied by “dramatic changes” in temperatures.
A Hoover Institution Study a few years back examined historical data and came to a similar conclusion.
“The effects of solar activity and volcanoes are impossible to miss. Temperatures fluctuated exactly as expected, and the pattern was so clear that, statistically, the odds of the correlation existing by chance were one in 100,” according to Hoover fellow Bruce Berkowitz.
The study says that “try as we might, we simply could not find any relationship between industrial activity, energy consumption and changes in global temperatures.”
Those opposing the idea of “man made” global warming have been stating this for some time, especially now as the peak temps were achieved in 2003 and are again trending downward (end of the last 22 year solar cycle??) This is why the rush to “do something” before the whole scheme collapsed on top of them. But watching the media the refutation of the global warming religion is gaining a lot ground despite the fanatical attempts to show it down. If we can refrain from making any dramatic policy changes over the next few years we’ll see the resurgence of the “coming ice age” theories that we saw 30 years ago.