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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

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To: AK2004 who wrote (9305)9/29/2003 6:22:18 PM
From: DavesM  Read Replies (3) of 793800
 
"In what could be the simplest explanation for one component of global warming, a new study shows the Sun's radiation has increased by .05 percent per decade since the late 1970s.

The increase would only be significant to Earth's climate if it has been going on for a century or more, said study leader Richard Willson, a Columbia University researcher also affiliated with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

The Sun's increasing output has only been monitored with precision since satellite technology allowed necessary observations. Willson is not sure if the trend extends further back in time, but other studies suggest it does..."

space.com

p.s. Regarding switching from a carbon to a hydrogen economy... water vapor (product of carbon and hydrogen combustion) is also a greenhouse gas. I know this, because I used to work with CO2 meters (which used infrared light absorbance to measure CO2) - we used to have to be very careful to remove water vapor from our samples (if we wanted an accurate CO2 measurement).

re:"But the global warming was the topic, was not it? "
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