[mrbeast]

Originally Posted by TDK1044

You can also add cyclic solar events (sunspots) to the equation. There is a direct correlation between solar events and climatic changes on this planet. Methene gas from the wetlands is also an issue.

Undoubtedly we must monitor closely our impact on our planet, but much of the global warming argument put forward by the left is total nonsense, and has to do with them wanting a change to our economic structure and way of life and has nothing to do with a realistic scientific assesment of our planet's climate.

I think that finally more and more people are starting to see the GW issue for what it is....about time.

Solar activity is way overstated as a major cause of global warming.

Scientists have delivered the final blow to the theory that recent global warming can be explained by variations in the natural cycles of the Sun - a favourite refuge for climate sceptics who dismiss the influence of greenhouse-gas emissions.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environ...ng-456785.html

While a component of recent global warming may have been caused by the increased solar activity of the last solar cycle, that component was very small compared to the effects of additional greenhouse gases. According to a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) press release, "...the solar increases do not have the ability to cause large global temperature increases...greenhouse gases are indeed playing the dominant role..." The Sun is once again less bright as we approach solar minimum, yet global warming continues.

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun...glob-warm.html

The gradual increase in global temperatures is getting harder and harder to pin on the Sun and its energy output variability. The Sun has a variation in how much energy it outputs but this variability is only about one tenth of one percent. The pattern of atmospheric heating since the 1960s is showing an increase with the increase in human activity (industry, transportation, power generation) and neither are showing signs of slowing down…

http://www.universetoday.com/2008/02...lobal-warming/

Climate change is a contentious issue among the public. One of the main arguments made by people who claim that climate change is not caused by humans states that recent global warming is a result of changes in solar activity. Indeed, a 2007 broadcast on Channel4 titled "The Great Global Warming Swindle" tried to make exactly that case.
This case is based on the idea that changes in solar activity influence cloud formation, which influences the climate. The original concept dates back at least as far as a 1975 paper published by the American Meteorological Society, but it's recently been revived as an alternative explanation to the recent rise in global temperatures.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/scie...arming-swindle

Solar radiation is not the cause of recent global warming, two scientists say in a report published by Britain's Royal Society, the country's science organization.
The study was undertaken partly to rebut a TV documentary that argued natural solar radiation, not human activity, is the cause of global warming, the BBC reported.

http://www.nowpublic.com/sun_does_no...rming_uk_study