Re: [Phys-l] Climate change?

["LaMontagne, Bob" <RLAMONT@providence.edu>]

Another request for a link to a paper:

I have been trying to find a link to a recent paper by Dr. Terry Sloan
from Lancaster University that concludes that there is no link between
Solar output and "global warming". I am usually pretty good at googling
a source, but this one is evading me - I only get newspaper reports -
not the original source.

Thanks,

Bob at PC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu [mailto:phys-l-
> bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of Alfredo Louro
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 1:14 PM
> To: Forum for Physics Educators
> Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Climate change?
>
> John, could you give me a reference for this article? I'd like to read
> it. Regards,
>
> Alfredo
>
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:03 AM, John M Clement <clement@hal-pc.org>
wrote:
> > The debate over climate change seems to be extremely polarized with
a
> >  lot of money being thrown at it by vested interests.  Witness the
> >  recent polarized responses, with an all or nothing point of view.
> >
> >  There are some journal articles which are guarded optimistic.  A
> >  recent paper in AJP claims that most climate predictions ignore the
> >  sun's influence.  They claim that there is evidence for a
significant
> >  fraction of current change being due to natural cycles which have
> >  resulted in increase solar output.  They also claim that these
cycles
> >  will produce a countervailing dip in solar output which will in the
> >  short term counteract some of the human influence.
> >
> >  This article does not claim, however, that the human influence is
> >  negligible or that it should not be fixed in the long term.  So we
do
> >  not know the exact percentage of human influence, but it appears to
be
> >  significant.  We also do not know the exact probability of runaway
> >  greenhouse, but it also appears to significant.  If you knew there
> >  were something which could kill your children at what probability
leve
> >  would you take action?
> >
> >  John M. Clement
> >  Houston, TX
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