Posted by
Noam D. Gear on Saturday, January 24, 2009 6:10:00 AM
The four most potent figures in the debate right now (to me) are as follows. Solar photos taken from SOHO.
Ocean Temperature shifts from a guy at NASA.
Photos below are from January 2002 and January 2008. Notice the difference in solar energy output.
By the way, I look at SOHO images every week or so for several years now. The sun began quieting down very significantly in June or so of 2007, if you care to know.
Next is a pair of charts showing change in ocean temperatures (blue is cooler, red is warmer).
Oceans are cooling in the same time period when the sun was calming. What a crazy coincidence.
There is no hiding the change, and yet it remains a mystery to many scientists whose grant money would be undone by the admission that global warming is not within the understanding of scientists, nor within the control of humanity. For a decade, they argued cynically that their computer models justifiably ignored solar variation They simply needed to leave room for the computers to conclude that CO2 was to blame, and mankind. There was no funding available for other conclusions.
Now they argue that recent cooling is due to solar inactivity, but they cannot have it both ways.
Conclusion: Dogmatic colleagues of mine have gone from agressive to mum. Next step is from mum to passively apologetic. So the scam isn't quite over yet.