SUV's CAUSING GLOBAL WARMING ON NEPTUNE?
We skeptics of "MANMADE" global warming have found more support in the research findings of G. W. Lockwood and H. B. Hammel. Their findings recently appeared in an article (Suggestive correlations between the brightness of Neptune, solar variability, and Earth's temperature) published in the Geophysical Research Letters (VOL. 34, L08203, doi:10.1029/2006GL028764, 2007). Their research linked solar output with the planet Neptune’s brightness and Earth's temperatures.
Hammel and Lockwood are from the Space Science Institute in Boulder Colorado and the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, respectively. They inform us that measurements of visible light from Neptune have been taken at the Observatory since 1950.
And what those measurements tell us is that Neptune has been getting brighter for the last 1/2 century, or since around 1980. Moreover, infrared measurements of the planet (since 1980) also show us that Neptune has been warming steadily as well during this period.
They took the changes in visible light from Neptune (over the last 50 years), changes in temperatures on Earth during that period, and changes in total solar irradiance (solar radiance is radiant energy emitted by the sun which is a Nuclear fusion reaction that creates electromagnetic energy) and plotted them on a graph.
What did they find? They found:
“How is it possible that the Earth’s temperature is so highly correlated with brightness variations from Neptune?"
Hmmmmm...?
Also, let's not forget that in recent weeks it has been reported that Mars has warmed recently as well.
Could it be that solar activity and its' inherent fluctuations of the only source (the sun) of energy we have is causing our planet to warm up just as Mars and Neptune are doing? Or are our SUV's causing their rising temperatures as well?
The World Climate Report says: “If nothing else, we have certainly learned recently that planets undergo changes in their mean temperature, and while we can easily blame human activity here on the Earth, blaming humans for the recent warming on Mars and Neptune would be an astronomical stretch, to say the least.”
What say you, Al?
Hammel and Lockwood are from the Space Science Institute in Boulder Colorado and the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, respectively. They inform us that measurements of visible light from Neptune have been taken at the Observatory since 1950.
And what those measurements tell us is that Neptune has been getting brighter for the last 1/2 century, or since around 1980. Moreover, infrared measurements of the planet (since 1980) also show us that Neptune has been warming steadily as well during this period.
They took the changes in visible light from Neptune (over the last 50 years), changes in temperatures on Earth during that period, and changes in total solar irradiance (solar radiance is radiant energy emitted by the sun which is a Nuclear fusion reaction that creates electromagnetic energy) and plotted them on a graph.
What did they find? They found:
- the correlation between solar irradiance and Neptune’s brightness was nearly identical.
- the correlation between changes on Earth and solar output, according to a report on the research appearing on World Climate Report was also nearly perfect.
“How is it possible that the Earth’s temperature is so highly correlated with brightness variations from Neptune?"
Hmmmmm...?
Also, let's not forget that in recent weeks it has been reported that Mars has warmed recently as well.
Could it be that solar activity and its' inherent fluctuations of the only source (the sun) of energy we have is causing our planet to warm up just as Mars and Neptune are doing? Or are our SUV's causing their rising temperatures as well?
The World Climate Report says: “If nothing else, we have certainly learned recently that planets undergo changes in their mean temperature, and while we can easily blame human activity here on the Earth, blaming humans for the recent warming on Mars and Neptune would be an astronomical stretch, to say the least.”
What say you, Al?
posted by HeavyHanded at
2:00 PM
3 Comments:
The authors of this letter themselves didn't claim any evidence of a link between Neptune's brightening and earth's now un-questioned (by scientists and people of intelligence) anthropogenic global warming; they said, in fact, that it was not statistically significant, but warranted further scrutiny. Leave it to those who'd rather see their grandchildren shrivel in a global oven than give up any of their self-indulgences to seize on any miniscule scrap of data that might allow them to go on cruising around on their fat butts in their fat SUV's with a clear conscience, or whatever it is that conservatives use for a moral compass.
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Anonymous, at 3:51 PM
You've been visited by a Reaver from the spittle-flecked far left. Obviously a benchwarmer. He managed to demean your intelligence and morality but forgot to include that World Climate Watch is part of the huge nefarious ExxonMobil conspiracy. Better luck next time!
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Anonymous, at 4:49 PM
It's hard to take someone's critiques seriously when they resort to immature behavior. It makes it doubly hard to take them seriously under the cover of anonominity.
Fine, if you can argue your point with civility and backed up with facts. None were made.
Are you saying the sun has no effect on our earth's temperature? Are you saying there are no fluctuations, turmoil, or solar flares and that this big mass of gas is static?
You did not even attempt to address why Mars' and Neptune's temperature has been rising.
Nope, just the usual lefty tripe, such as, "un-questioned (by scientists and people of intelligence) anthropogenic global warming."
This is pure hogwash. It is not "un-questioned." There are plenty of respectable scientists, and climatologists who dispute manmade global warming.
Of course, you on the left will make a lame effort to handle this fact by name calling, and will make an attempt to descredit them by falsely impuning their credentials and intelligence.
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HeavyHanded, at 9:39 PM
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