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Chris Rapley, the director of the British Antarctic Survey, said: "I would be very uncomfortable with a project that simply was out to log the hydrocarbon reserves of the Arctic as a geological activity. I don't think that fits very comfortably within either the scientific guidelines or the ethical underpinning of the IPY."

Launching the polar year initiative last month, Professor Rapley said the scientists would work on projects "that will tackle the urgent environmental issues" because "rapid climate change is already impacting local peoples ... and it is only a question of time before the wider consequences become apparent".

The Inuit people have filed a lawsuit against the US government claiming that greenhouse gas pollution is damaging their livelihoods. Experts have warned the only realistic way to prevent dangerous climate change is to curb carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels.

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For the Whole Article in Today's Guardian

The farce goes on and on and on...

Yes, the sun influences the earth. My congratualtions to those scientists who recognize it. Solar storms and cycles (a cycle is about 11 years) however have only been measured for slightly over 100 years. The monitoring of which was of great interest to terrestrial communications and the military since solar flux levels govern radio high frequency (short wave communications) directly. Now with satellite communications it is of less interest.

As a short wave enthusiast since the fifties, I have studied sun spot predictions intensely. One thing scientists know, they can not be reliably predicted. Rather they are measured and observed.

Again the facts are that there is absolutely no record of sun spot disturbances that date back to ancient periods of global cooling or warming (the measurement of such having been only 123 years). These 11 year sun spot activity cycles peak somewhere in the middle, but on those dates (in the middle of their cycle) is there actually hotter weather or water temperatures recorded? No, the earth is warming up steadily regardless where we are in the sunspot cycle. The reasons are found elsewhere

Although the sun does affect the earth's weather (duh) scientifically speaking the only one thing that has been correlated with large shifts in weather patterns going back to the ice ages is CO2 content. This can be measured scientifically.

For example Sun spot Cycle 24 is just beginning (it's at it's absolute low now, but temperatures are still climbing). If these "theories" of correlation were accurate, then 2003 and 2005 should have been cool years compared with 2000, but that's not what actually happened.

In short sunspot prediction is one valid scientific field of study howver any correlation to sunspot activity and earth temperature is a theory that has been far from proven (if that were so 1958 would have been a record high year).

In fact the record sunspots occurred in cycle 1958, but earth temeprature was much lower than today. In the sixties it was vogue to guess that earth temperature rises were being caused by "anything" (we had to find out) so scientists went ahead looking for possibilities. That's good scientific method. Some people even studied sunspot cycles. Good. But it didn't pan out by the eighties.

However today the correspondence between sunspot activity and the gradual rise of earth temperature since the industrial revolution appear not to correlate at all. That is not to say that if the sun should explode and send a big fiery ball to earth, that such would not affect us -- of course it would. The sun is fasciunating really -- so is the earth -- so are people's fantasies.

Don't you love websites that give us good scientific data on one hand, and then make spurious conclusions that are not suported by any current data? Keep in mind that the main web page link was a copy of a newsgroup (usenet) discussion (whose source was not given) nor does anybody give Mike Flaugher's credentials. Who indeed is Mike Flaugher? Mike Flaugher is a (ham) amateur radio operator.

Let's Mike give his own credentials. Mike said in 1997, "Crazy Mike is at it again. I try to hold my peace but I just can't stand it anymore. Doesn't ANYBODY see that Earth temperatures have started cooling, the sea levels are turning toward decline, and cloud cover is going nuts around the globe? ... I am NOT a professional scientist. I am an amateur."
Source: groups.google.com/group/s...997-08%3F&

Enough said? Why are people repeating this tripe? They have an agenda in denial don't they? Check your sources!


The link to Stanford's Solar Center really has very little if anything on the subject of global warming. Am I missing something? Weather in space is not meant to be interpreted as temperature on the earth, of course, but yes studying the effects of solar storms on aurora's, the radiation belts, the ionosphere and so forth is indeed fascinating. I just want to say that we should not be distracted that any of that has been attributed to be the cause of global warming by any scientists at Stanford or elsewhere.

Donny