The article Jeap posted on solar cycle activity concerns sunlight and the effect on weather patterns; specifically cloud formation and other phenomenon.
Baliunas, the researcher in question, 'doubts that the Sun is the sole cause of global climate change. She said current research seeks to figure out the magnitude of the sun's influence so that the human effect can be better assessed.'
In other words - an anomaly requiring further research, not an ash stake driven into the heart of global warming.
The current hypothesis about the effect are playing out towards a temperature variance due to sun cycles, but the magnitude of those variances is still to be determined. However comparing Earth and Mars is dodgy at best, given the number of variables introduced by orbit, atmosphere, etc.
And yes Jeap, you do need peer reviewed papers. Science is not a popularity contest; it cannot be won with a big advertising budget or media hype. There is a reason the Intelligent Design twats do not publish many papers. The first is they get new ones torn by the scientific community when they do; which feeds into the second reason, they don't have game; Intelligent Design is a 'god of the gaps' theory trying to wear the skin of actual science. No wonder the ID movement try and sneak into school boards rather than publish papers for peer review.
Irreducible complexity is a nice way of saying 'Too fucking lazy to try and figure it out.'
Shayne
Baliunas, the researcher in question, 'doubts that the Sun is the sole cause of global climate change. She said current research seeks to figure out the magnitude of the sun's influence so that the human effect can be better assessed.'
In other words - an anomaly requiring further research, not an ash stake driven into the heart of global warming.
The current hypothesis about the effect are playing out towards a temperature variance due to sun cycles, but the magnitude of those variances is still to be determined. However comparing Earth and Mars is dodgy at best, given the number of variables introduced by orbit, atmosphere, etc.
And yes Jeap, you do need peer reviewed papers. Science is not a popularity contest; it cannot be won with a big advertising budget or media hype. There is a reason the Intelligent Design twats do not publish many papers. The first is they get new ones torn by the scientific community when they do; which feeds into the second reason, they don't have game; Intelligent Design is a 'god of the gaps' theory trying to wear the skin of actual science. No wonder the ID movement try and sneak into school boards rather than publish papers for peer review.
Irreducible complexity is a nice way of saying 'Too fucking lazy to try and figure it out.'
Shayne