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What a lot of nonsense. Show me any credible reference that maintains the sun is getting "brighter" because it is absorbing cosmic rays. The issue of climate change on other planets is closely related to planet specific factors. For example unusually large and persistent dust storms on Mars...

It's not an issue of whether the "info" is true. Some is, some isn't. At issue is whether the conclusion is supported by evidence. As acknowledged by the author, this solar cycle argument which is the core of the article originates in a 1991 paper by Friis-Christensen, E., and K. Lassen. It...

Here we go again, the diligent journalists at the Examiner have unearthed another revelation that isn't. If we actually read the article, we find the quote: 0.1C is an order of magnitude smaller than human induced warming and much smaller than that projected by models. What's more it's...

The thing about CO2 is that it hangs about in the atmosphere for a long time - decades, centuries and perhaps not completely scrubbed in millenia. As the developed countries are mostly responsible for the 100 ppm or so increase in CO2 since pre-industrial times, natural justice would seem to...

"Doubt is our product," a cigarette executive once observed, "since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy." http://books.google.com/books?id=J0P3IdSYO_MC

Mr Slacker, You posted a politically inspired blog post sprouting a lot of nonsense about MWP. My reply graphically demonstrates that post's failings. How does that constitute misdirection? The evidence for human induced GW is extensive. 1. The physics of greenhouse gas behavior is well...

Medieval warm period compared to 1960 - 1991 reference: Current decade (1999-2008) compared to 1960 - 1991 reference: The astute observer will notice the uneven nature of the MWP. In particular Greenland features quite strongly - which is why the denialist stuff loves to...

Indeed that certainly would be the rational response. But who are the "they" that are going to do this? Since when has rationality dominated politics or even economics? Where was the rationality that prevented the recent financial crisis? Or that prevented the depression? Or the world wars...

The article seems to suggest that the effect is regional rather than world wide. Which is not to say it's not important.

Don't underestimate the seriousness of ocean acidification also - the "other" CO2 problem.

I posted the following on another of these stupid threads. This is not rocket science. If there was falsification of the data it would long ago have been detected and demonstrated. The whole business is a beat up and beyond stupid. Two statistical studies find no evidence that the CRU data...

That's not quite the whole story. In fact it is quite wrong. If climatologists were just projecting forward trends, they would be using statistical models. In fact the IPCC reports use physical models. The models are built upon the physical processes involved and and based principles and laws of...

Two statistical studies find no evidence that the CRU data was falsified: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/12/are-the-cru-data-suspect-an-objective-assessment/ http://www.gilestro.tk/2009/lots-of-smoke-hardly-any-gun-do-climatologists-falsify-data/ What is more...

"On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based at the headquarters of the British Meteorological Office in Exeter (Devon, England) had probably tampered with Russian-climate data." Who or what is the...

'fraid not: Overwhelming U.S. public support for global warming action "Two new polls issued today confirm that an overwhelming portion of Americans want domestic action and an international agreement to reduce global warming pollution. More than half the respondents want to do a great...

Of all the nonsense published by deniers, this effort has reached the zenith of stupidity including such gems as: "58) Canada has shown the world targets derived from the existing Kyoto commitments were always unrealistic and did not work for the country. " How this statement in anyway...

I don't know if Gore is overstating the case or not, but it is very clear that the Arctic ice is disappearing at an alarming rate which is much faster than the most pessimistic IPCC projections:

If you refine your question a bit, you are more likely to get an answer. Are you talking time scales of 1000 years? 10000 years, a million, a hundred million? I'm sure that the time frame will have a bearing on the type of proxy data that is used for climate reconstruction.

So you are saying the Australian Bureau of Meteorology is falsifying the data? What was that you were saying about rationality? It illustrates how the natural weather cycles (such as El Nino) are superimposed on the longer term warming trend to produce new highs.

There is no decline to hide. You want a glimpse of what is in store climate wise for the next couple of years, take a look at at the southern hemisphere as El Nino kicks in. Australia has had it's hottest winter/spring on record. Just look at the mean maximum temperature anomaly for...