Re: Let's get controversial about Barry Fell

Eric Stevens wrote:
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On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:34:39 GMT, David B <tronospamchos@xxxxxxxxx>
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What's unusual and scary right now
is that the relationship between global surface temperatures and solar activity has broken down- the historic peak of solar activity was half a century ago, and indeed we're also right now at a minimum of the shorter-term solar cycle, but the temperatures within our living environment at the bottom of the atmosphere aren't responding in the ways we know they did in the past, both in short-term cycles and longer fluctuations such as the Maunder Minimum / Little Ice Age. Overall, they just keep rising faster and faster.

See
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jul/the-discover-interview-henrik-svensmark/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C=
and then read the book described at http://preview.tinyurl.com/2louch
This is basicly Nobel Prize material.

Quote from the interview:
"if the sun and the solar wind are very active—as they are right now—they will not allow so many cosmic rays to reach Earth"

Ummm- hello- the sun is just coming out of a MINIMUM-activity period right now, with only a couple of minor storms in the past few months, and it remains to be seen whether the next maximum, due in about 4 years' time, will be anything like as intense as the recorded peak in 1958.

That cosmic rays play a part in cloud formation makes perfect sense, but as for the possibility that solar activity is thus indirectly the main cause of the present global heat surplus- I for one am not convinced.

David B.
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