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Originally Posted by Steffen
Speaking of sun spots being related to global warming, how about this site:
http://www.tylervigen.com
Seems like the US should stop spending on science, space and technology immediately!
Cheers
Steffen. |
Very interesting. Makes sort of sense though. US spends heaps on all that stuff, people don't get the free handouts, so they go kill themselves.
Anyhow, up till the 70s, the correlation between sunspots (Maunder Minimum) and temperature, given a 400 year record, was taken seriously. But if you Google it now, for the most part, the results that show up dispute it - using graphs that cut at at around 1980, though there is the occasional diehard supporter. Though curiously, all those reams of sunspots I saw back in the 1980s apparently weren't so great relative to the past.
Then, just when you'd think the issue was all over, back in January, NASA put this out,
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...an_sunclimate/
Interesting to see where it goes from here.
Regards,
Renato