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

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (23118)	10/23/2008 10:17:20 AM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

It's not so much that sunspots cause global warming as absence of sunspots causes global cooling and participates in reversion to ice age: No, you are badly confused. The 11+/-year solar cycle is a very small wiggle on the ice age cycles, which are caused by orbital dynamics. The peak-peak solar cycle variation is equivalent to about 3 decades of CO2 increase IIRC. It is very minor. Don't confuse the LIA with a true ice age, and the LIA is not attributed 100% to low solar activity either, there is reason to suspect volcanic induced cooling was a factor as well.