Re: Sunspots hit new highs

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Date: 10/28/04


Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 02:51:45 +0000 (UTC)

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.

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