Re: Sunspots hit new highs

From: OG (owen_at_gwynnefamily.org.uk)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:45:21 +0100

"RichA" <none@none.com> wrote in message
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> On 28 Oct 2004 05:08:22 GMT, Uncle Bob <realonespam@bogusnet.net>
> wrote:
>
> >jimp@specsol-spam-sux.com wrote:
> >> In sci.physics Sam Wormley <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Sunspots hit new highs (Oct 27)
> >>> http://physicsweb.org/article/news/8/10/16
> >>> The Sun is more active at present than it has been for over
8000 years
> >>> according to a new method for determining the level of sunspot
activity
> >>> in the past. Sami Solanki of the Max Planck Institute in
> >>> Katlenburg-Lindau and colleagues in Finland, Germany and
Switzerland
> >>> have developed a technique that relates the number of sunspots
to the
> >>> concentration of carbon-14 in tree rings. However, the team
insists that
> >>> this high level of solar activity is unlikely to be the main
cause of
> >>> global warming (Nature 431 1084).
> >>
> >>
> >> Yeah, sure, it couldn't POSSIBLY be totally natural,
uncontrollable, and
> >> untaxable; that doesn't get research grants.
> >>
> > You've applied for a grant to study links between sunspot activity
> >and global warming? Please tell us about it.
> > Thanks,
> > Uncle Bob
>
> Canada put up $70,000,000 in grant money to study global warming.
> What was the catch? You had to be working on a project whose goal
> was to PROVE global warming was man-made. Otherwise, no money.
> Some kind of way to do science, huh?

You got a reference for this claim?

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