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To: Constant Reader who wrote (568)	2/23/2005 1:27:47 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 42652

This one's for Granny. Anyone feel free to post to her without attribution. =============================================================== Message 21068448 Message 21063616 The link in there is dead now. Use this one instead. It is the same data, words, and graphs. chatham.edu Another trend scientists have picked up on appears to span several centuries. Late 17th century astronomers observed that no sunspots existed on the Sun’s surface during the time period from 1650 to 1715 AD. This lack of solar activity, which some scientists attribute to a low point in a multiple-century-long cycle, may have been partly responsible for the Little Ice Age in Europe. During this period, winters in Europe were much longer and colder than they are today. Modern scientists believe that since this minimum in solar energy output, there has been a slow increase in the overall sunspots and solar energy throughout each subsequent 11-year cycle. earthobservatory.nasa.gov The graph beneath that text is QUITE interesting. It appears a possible explanation of the warming seen since the 1740's and attributed to greenhouse gasses. Long, but rather interesting: crichton-official.com More Crichton: brookings.edu