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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (11273)	4/8/2007 5:40:06 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 36917

What about bad thermometers? Maybe the temperature hasn't changed at all. Maybe the galaxy is slowing down, and there is less of a cosmic wind chill effect. How's your hockey team doing?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (11273)	4/8/2007 6:22:24 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

In 2005, Long’s team published a study in the journal Science showing that Earth experienced a period of “solar global dimming” from 1960 to 1990, during which time solar radiation hitting our planet’s surface decreased. Then from the mid-1990’s onward, the trend reversed and Earth experienced a “solar brightening.” These changes were not likely driven by fluctuations in the output of the Sun, Long explained, but rather increases in atmospheric clouds or aerosols that reflected solar radiation back into space. wow. Somebody was just about to say something of worth and of interest, but then the pablum spouting puke broke straight back in, like a volcano spewing bland grey lifeless ash over what was once was beautiful landscape. -lol- en.wikipedia.org