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[/QUOTE]Here's a link from a GOP site which use the sun to try and debunk global warming.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/5/14/161152.shtml
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I don't know if you caught the first line of the article or not, but it says a group of "international scientists". I would say there is a movement to better explain what is really happening instead of using doom and gloom which is all the people of green peace and the like have. There is data to show both sides of the story and not one study looks stronger then the other.
This one talks about the Bush "spin" on global warming.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1185380,00.html
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Let me get this straight, because they are suing information that doesn't agree with yours, you are calling it spin. We don't know the full story as of yet when it comes to global warming, and to look at other places for information seems like the right thing to do. Cities across the US have been coming off of the dirty air lists for the last few years. Denver the metro area where I live came off of the list about 2 years ago. Other cities in the US have had the same thing happen. LA isn't any dirtier then it was 10 years ago and they have improved their air quality.
This link is to a chart showing air quality for
selected major cities and it shows a decline of poor air quality for 10 years. Look at the chart and tell me this isn't improvement. The worst one was LA and they had a major decline after 1994. Looking at my city Denver, we have some of the best air quality in the US for a major city and it was in the 90's when we had the largest population explosion.
The graph is on sunspot data over the past 200+ years. Sun spots are the leading indication for an increase of solar activity. I cn also post the "butterfly" graph which tracks solar output
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Sunspot data over the last 200 years? How in the world were we able to determine sunspot activity 200 years ago? It wasn't until about the 1850's when sunspots were discovered. So to have a listing of sunspot activity for the last 200 years seems like speculation and at best is modeling. Modeling can be unreliable because it doesn't account for more intense or declined cycles. I can accept polar core samples because those can be seen now and the data used.
As for the "seeping" on Mars, go to NASA and read what they have to say on the matter.
http://aerospacescholars.jsc.nasa.gov/HAS/cirr/em/9/15.cfm
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They have some nice explanations on how certain formations were made but they don't show any pictures of recent seeps, which were discovered by some of the Mars spacecraft.
http://www.marsunearthed.com/DWArchive/sow.html
Look at the images and tell me what you think.
If we have a hard time explaining what is going on with OUR enviornment, I think it's just a wee bit illogical to grab hold and make the leap that sun is causing water on Mars to melt. We don't even know if it is water, and there could be any number of explinations for the seeping, but again solar incidence isn't one of them.
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According to you we have a perfect explanation of what is happening here on Earth. According to you it is green house gasses reeking havoc here, but when you look at the pictures taken of Mars, we know that something is flowing to the surface and leaving marks on the surface. What else could cause such events to take place? Mars doesn't really have an atmosphere to speak of so we know it isn't global warming, and if it isn't global warming then what is it? Solar radiation seems to be the best explanation to me. After all we know the Moon doesn't have water on it but we now know that Mars does have H20 and C02 in the form of ice and dry ice in the northern and southern hemispheres.
Here is a graph which tracks SolarIrradiance over a twenty year period.
http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/space/solterr/solrad.gif
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You still haven't shown difference in solar radiation and temp change. In order for what I'm saying to be bullshit, there must be some graphs you can show to prove no correlation.