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Fear of a global coldening | The Sunday Telegraph: Jul 14, 2007 9:21pm 0 review climate-change
http://www.news.com.au/sundaytelegraph/story/0,,22069080-5001031,00.html

The sun moves climate change: May 21, 2007 3:43pm 0 review climate-change
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=fee9a01f-3627-4b01-9222-bf60...

http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2007/2007_1-9/2007-9/pdf/06_709_sci.pdf: Mar 9, 2007 2:11pm 0 review science-fiction, climate-change
http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2007/2007_1-9/2007-9/pdf/06_709_sci.pdf

Blame for global warming placed firmly on humankind - earth - 02 February 2007 -…: Mar 8, 2007 4:40pm 3 reviews climate-change
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn11088; Blame for global warming placed firmly on humankind [ftp] "The 2nd of February 2007 will one day hopefully be remembered as the day the question mark was removed from the debate on whether human activities are driving climate change, said the head of the UN Environment Programme at the launch of the most authoritative scientific report on climate change to date. The new IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report says there is 90% certainty that the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities are driving climate change." I'm certainly no apologist for disrespectors of the Earth's ecosystems, nor do I doubt the reality of climate change (we had bumblebees in december in the UK); nevertheless, I personally don't believe we understand the Earth's interplanetary environment and its relationship to our global weather patterns sufficiently well to accept at face value this "90% certainty" that global warming is caused solely by human activity. I don't deny that our activities may be having some effect and of course at this stage endorsing the precautionary principle is only sensible; however, if we don't fully comprehend the interplanetary environment and the nature and scope of its interactions with the Earth how can we be so sure that the current changes we are seeing do not include a significant natural component? In science a 10% uncertainty is still more than big enough for alternative possiblities - possibilities of which at present, due to our lack of knowledge, we may be completely unaware. The truth is, we don't actually understand the workings of our parent star as well as we like to think. There are numerous observed features of the Sun's behaviour which the conventional solar model neither predicts nor explains. For example, during a 70yr period beginning in 1645, for reasons unknown, sunspot activity fell to extremely low levels and at times stopped completely. This coincided with a significantly cooler period on Earth, now commonly referred to as 'the little ice-age'. However, although the link between sunspot activity and the Earth's weather is undeniable the underlying mechanisms involved remain unclear. Furthermore, global warming also seems to be occurring on other planets. Mars is heating up, so too is Jupiter and Saturn's largest moon Triton, even Pluto, out in the extremities of the solar system. What does seem clear is that having an incomplete (or incorrect) theoretical model of the Sun's behaviour should lead us to conclude that it provides an unsound basis from which to attempt to understand the extent of its influence on the Earth's climate. On top of all this, taking into consideration the uncertainties about the true values of many of the huge number of 'tweakable' parameters used in computer climate simulations, the widespread corruption of science by politics, and my deep mistrust of any concerted mainstream effort to ram a new zeitgeist down our collective throats, I can't help but be wary of such pronouncements by the IPCC, which, I should also point out, is primarily a political body. Quotes like the following don't really help either... "The threat of environmental crisis will be the 'international disaster key' that will unlock the New World Order." - Mikhail Gorbachev. (Quoted in `A Special Report: The Wildlands Project Unleashes Its War On Mankind', by Marilyn Brannan, Associate Editor, Monetary & Economic Review)