[Terrapreta] A New Theory of Climate Change (was "Sustained Biochar)

[Sean K. Barry]

Hi Jeff,

Be careful of so called scientific papers that say things like "Lazy Sun".

H2O in the atmosphere (clouds) acts like other GHGs; it holds in heat.  Keeping an open mind, the energy in even the most powerful cosmic rays that we receive may have a low likelihood of moving the average global temperature.  The atmosphere and the globe are a lot of mass and area, for any cosmic rays from distant stars to push the temperature of anyway.  Especially considering this cosmic ray energy would need to compete with and override the weather changing effects of all the energy coming from direct solar radiation from our closet star, the Sun.  Solar energy flux to the Earth's atmosphere or surface has got to be like several trillion times more than the amount of energy these receive from cosmic rays.

Which is going to win out on pushing the weather around on our planet; our Sun (the big elephant) or even a whole swarm of fast flying sand flies (the cosmic rays)?

Regards,

SKB
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeff Davis<mailto:jeff0124 at velocity.net> 
  To: terrapreta<mailto:terrapreta at bioenergylists.org> 
  Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 11:25 PM
  Subject: [Terrapreta] A New Theory of Climate Change (was "Sustained Biochar)


  Thanks Lou, Sean and others,

  All good point!!

  FIRST: I am on the side of GW but honestly it is only my OPINION.

  SECOND: Why study the anti-GW people? Answer: Keep your friends close but your 
  enemies closer.

  Here is an article explaining how atomic particles that are coming in from 
  exploded stars affect our weather.

  Keeping an open mind. .....

  Some snippets:

  "When politicians and journalists declare that the science of global warming 
  is settled, they show a regrettable ignorance about how science works. We 
  were treated to another dose of it recently when the experts of the 
  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued the Summary for Policymakers 
  that puts the political spin on an unfinished scientific dossier on climate 
  change due for publication in a few months’ time. They declared that most of 
  the rise in temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to 
  man-made greenhouse gases."

  "The best measurements of global air temperatures come from American weather 
  satellites, and they show wobbles but no overall change since 1999."

  "That levelling off is just what is expected by the chief rival hypothesis, 
  which says that the sun drives climate changes more emphatically than 
  greenhouse gases do. After becoming much more active during the 20th century, 
  the sun now stands at a high but roughly level state of activity. Solar 
  physicists warn of possible global cooling, should the sun revert to the 
  lazier mood it was in during the Little Ice Age 300 years ago."

  "Climate history and related archeology give solid support to the solar 
  hypothesis. The 20th-century episode, or Modern Warming, was just the latest 
  in a long string of similar events produced by a hyperactive sun, of which 
  the last was the Medieval Warming."

  "He saw from compilations of weather satellite data that cloudiness varies 
  according to how many atomic particles are coming in from exploded stars. 
  More cosmic rays, more clouds. The sun’s magnetic field bats away many of the 
  cosmic rays, and its intensification during the 20th century meant fewer 
  cosmic rays, fewer clouds, and a warmer world. On the other hand the Little 
  Ice Age was chilly because the lazy sun let in more cosmic rays, leaving the 
  world cloudier and gloomier."

  End of snippets:


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  Cheers,


  Jeff

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