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On Feb 18, 2012, at 12:59 PM, Anthony Lapinski wrote:
Yes, we can't do anything about the Sun and its energy output. Itaffects the Earth much more than anything humans have ever done or will
ever do.
Already so stipulated.
The timeline for global warming does correspond with the industrialage, but there is no direct proof of causality.
And how could there be? Science rarely if ever provides "proofs."
We'd have to wait hundreds of years for more data.
I'd say a LOT more than that!
We do have core samples and tree rings which correlate with sunspotnumbers and show amounts of CO2, etc.
when governments put regulations on air quality, automobiles, etc. But
I brought in politics because this really has become a political debate
since the main cause of global warming is the Sun, then these laws are
really meaningless.
That is simply nonsense. The Sun is obviously the main cause of Earth
BEING a lot warmer than it would otherwise be. However, it is not at
*all* obvious, that the Sun is the "main cause" of what *everybody*
understand the phrase "global warming" to mean. Indeed, the overwhelming
scientific consensus is that it is not.
John Mallinckrodt
Cal Poly Pomona
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