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

To: HPilot who wrote (26538)12/8/2009 10:28:00 AM
From: Alastair McIntosh  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 36918
 
Without the sun the earth would be absolute 0 degrees

Not really. Radioactive decay of U-238, Th-232 and K-40 in the earth's interior produces significant heat.



To: HPilot who wrote (26538)12/8/2009 10:30:43 AM
From: Land Shark  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 36918
 
Nobody's questioning the importance of the Sun... It's variations in output that are not that significant with respect to global warming.



To: HPilot who wrote (26538)12/8/2009 12:00:10 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 36918
 
I think you just may have won the Nobel Prize. Brilliant.
Who wudda thought it would be cold without the sun?

Check your figures again before you publish it. See why you need peer review?
3 degrees is the universe's recorded low.
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In space, nobody can hear you scream.


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