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meow mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 04:19 PM
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Humans, not increased solar radiation, are more at fault
for global warming, a Boulder researcher reports.

(sorry freeping aholes, try again!)

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2438457,00.html

But a new analysis suggests scientists can't pin as much blame on the sun as previously thought.

Some had estimated that the sun, by spitting out more radiation, was responsible for as much as 30 percent of the last century's warming, said Tom Wigley, a climate researcher with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. He calculates that the figure is closer to 5 percent, "probably too little for a practical influence on climate."

Sallie Baliunas, a researcher with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, agreed with Wigley that the sun's total energy output hasn't changed much during the last century.

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Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-04 04:31 PM
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1. We may never know for sure the cause but we do know the solution
We need to decrease the pollution that is assisting if not causing the problem. What is so fucking difficult to understand about that?
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