The Sun, that big burning ball of hydrogen that lights up the sky during the daytime, that thing effects the weather?
Really?
The dogma I’ve been hearing from True Believers of the Most Holy Church of Climatology is that the sun has little or no effect on global warming, that the recent period of unprecedented solar activity has absolutely NOTHING to do with global warming, that George Bush is solely responsible for global warming because six years before he was elected the Senate didn’t ratify the Kyoto Blame America Only Protocol.
Then suddenly this morning my eyes fell upon this little nugget, It appears that Velasco Herrera, a scientist from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, claims that:
in about ten years the Earth will enter a “little ice age” which will last from 60 to 80 years and may be caused by the decrease in solar activity.
How could that be if the sun has no effect on global warming? Velasco Herrera also threatened to bring down the wrath of the Global Warming Gods by speaking other such blasphemy:
The models and forecasts of the IPCC “is incorrect because only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity,” said the specialist also in image processing and signs and prevention of natural disasters. The phenomenon of climate change, he added, should include other kinds of factors, both internal, such as volcanoes and the very human activity, and external, such as solar activity
Volcanoes and solar activity?!? The next thing you know he’ll be wanting us to believe that the climate is not 100% under mans control and may even be an act of [gasp] nature! It’s clearly obvious that Velasco is either {pick one} delusional for daring to proclaim such blasphemy, suicidal for mouthing such blasphemous utterances during a Holy (election) Year, or an actual scientist with no political agenda.
I mean, look at the down side of Global Warming: Longer growing seasons, precious water released from the ice caps, increased species diversity, tourism. Where the upsides of a cooling trend are glaringly apparent: increased dependence on fossil fuel for heating, shorter growing seasons, crop failures, famine, plague.
As for me, I vote for Global Warming. On the down side, we loose Florida. On the upside, we loose Floridians.