Quote:My position, Morganni, is that no reputable scientific body considers this a primary explanation for observed and projected climate change on Earth.
If your position is that scientists don't consider increased energy input from the sun to be a significant factor, where is your documentation for this point?
My documentation is the fact I already posted a large number of reports and mission statements from reputable scientific bodies that assert that global warming exists and is caused primarily by human activity. The one dissenting opinion (from scientists whose livelihood depends on the petroleum industry) also did not support "increased sun output" as a primary explanation for anything.
If the sun was the primary factor involved, this would be reflected in the conclusions of professional degreed scientists and peer-reviewed scientific papers.
Since it doesn't, the only reasonable conclusion is that this is not the case.
If you think Jeap knows more about climate change than the IPCC, the Joint National Science Academies, the American Meteorological Society, the Federal Climate Change Science Program, and the Geological Society of America, and is better qualified to talk on the subject than the scientists who published the 928 abstracts in refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003 on the subject of climate change, not a single one of which disputed that global warming is primarily caused by human activity... then we probably have very little to talk about.