Its not worth worrying about something you cannot do anything about.

All of the planets in our solar system are raising in temperature on geologic scales, not on human ones. Every planet is hotter now than it was 1 million years ago. Burning fossil fuels does nothing other than make very empathetic people angry. You can get as mad as you want but environmental activists will always lose to market powers.

This whole worrying about climate change is very opportunistic and short sighted. Prius drivers should understand that while they are slowing down the consumption of oil on their part, the overall supply of oil will eventually go to ZERO no matter what you do.

Germany and Japan used the fischer-tropsch process to make their own synthetic petroleum substitute back in ww2 which worked beautifully, but was more expensive than drilling. So why not drill everything, than switch?

An Ice Age is a made up term used to describe a geological shift we do not yet fully understand. To predict a drop in global temperature because of sun spots stopping is like predicting the global temperature to go down from prius drivers.

I suggest you try to calculate the heat capacity of a skyscraper and in turn how much power it would take to freeze a single building, let alone a whole city. Also, try computing the heat capacity of the earths crust along the equator? How about the amount of power required to freeze it all?

The image of upper atmosphere coming down and somehow flash-freezing skyscrapers is like mental terrorism for environmental scientists who understand the repercussions of such a false image and how dangerous it can be if you believe that sort of thing.

Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
Once again this is a false implication concerning sunspots and "cooling." The fact is that the majority of scientists conclude that sunspots have negligible effect on warming/cooling. Recent experiments verify this, but I understand this is just another attempt to be biased against man made climate change.

Very recent studies using archived river level data have shown sunspot activity seems to have an effect on global rainfall levels yet the reasons for this are unknown. It seems likely they have some influence on cloud formation, and if this is the case it would be very foolish to dismiss their effect on warming and cooling also. There is still much we do not know about the interactions between the sun and the atmosphere, and there certainly do seem very strong historic correlations between sunspot activity and periods of warming/cooling which we ignore at our peril!

I wonder what would happen if you graphed climate change (major and minor ice ages), population capacity of the earth during those ages, and our population growth curves.

Originally posted by crimvelvet
that leaves the woolen undies knitted from my sheep's wool

Not close enough to the equator then!

[edit on 26-11-2008 by Phage]

Wouldn't the vanishing of cool spots on the sun mean a warmer climate?

Its pretty obvious to anyone who does a little research, that man mnade global warming is a well crafted fairytale.
Im trying to tell as many people as I can.


It does look like a possible mini-ice age, which would be bad for me, seeing as I live in Ireland, and I hAVE noticed that so far this winter seems to have gotten extremely cold here all of a sudden,

If you have any doubt as to whether Anthropogenically caused global warming is a fraud look up lord monktons article on the IPCCs 4th annual report.
He found over 30 inaccuracies that were addressed by the IPCC but the 4th report was not republished - instead those who still brandish the 4th report as the warmists bible are still disseminating incorrect information.
Monkton concluded that there was no significant link between human activity and climate change.