Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

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The huge problem is oceanic pollution by heavy metals, not CO2.

Absolutely ! Poisoning the oceans is going to kill all life on earth (at least most of the higher life) and the fools are worried about CO2 which is at a tenth of previous levels....

..... strong increases of cloudiness, precipitation (snow)
and declining temperatures as a consequence of solar/
cosmic ray forcing have played a crucial role in the
regularly occurring iceberg discharges as recorded in
North Atlantic deep sea cores and the synchronous
events in the Southern Hemisphere.

.......solar forcing of Holocene and Glacial climatic shifts .... implies.. climate system is far more sensitive to small variations in
solar activity than generally believed.

MEASUREMENTS OF SUNSPOT MAGNETIC FIELDS
IN CRIMEAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY

You can see crimean observations of sunspot magnetic fields using the following address:
http://quake.stanford.edu/~crao/Projects/solar/sunspot/DATA/

Radio maps of the Sun with Crimean radiotelescop RT-22:
http://quake.stanford.edu/~crao/Projects/solar/sunspot/RADIO/

Visual measurements of sunspot magnetic fields carried out in the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory from 1955. First two years the line FeI 6173 A was used. Since 1957 observations carry out in the line FeI 6302 A [1].

Maximal distance between sigma-components is measured in the profile of this line splitted in a sunspot magnetic field. Then the measured size is transferred in intensity of a magnetic field. The data of observations of each day are presented in a kind of sketch of the solar disk with all sunspot groups and their temporary numbers. Near each sunspot the sign of magnetic field ( N or S) and intensity in hundreds Gauss is specified.

The moment observation with decimal parts of day, quality of the image (seeing) in five step scale (s) and scintillation (Sc) in arch seconds is specified. The line EW corresponds to a direction of a equator.

Since 1957 Crimean Observatory has become head establishment on observations of sunspot magnetic fields by stations of the Soviet Union. The results of observations of six observatories during the International Geophysical Year ( 1957-1958 ) were published in the catalogue [2]. In different years various observatories participated in a regular Service of magnetic fields.

The observations of magnetic fields were monthly sent by all participants of this service in Crimea. After verification of all observations 3 copies of all observations departed to World Centers of Solar Data ( Moscow, Boulder and Meudon). The Crimean catalogue contains observations of sunspot magnetic fields by stations of Soviet Union per every day since 1965. Summary the data on quantity of observations are submitted in the table. Following designations of stations are accepted:
Crimea Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.
Sayan Mountains Institute of solar-earth physics of Siberian Department of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
Kislovodsk Mountain Station of the Main Astronomical Observatory RAS.
Pulkovo Main Astronomical Observatory RAS.
Ussurijsk Solar Service Station in Ussuriysk
Shemakha Shemakha Astronomical Observatory
Ural Astronomical Observatory of Ural State University

References

1. A.B.Severny, V.E.Stepanov. The first experience of observations of sunspot magnetic fields in the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory Izv. Krim. Astrofiz. Obs.,1956, v.16, pp.3-11.(in russian)
2. Solar magnetic fields for the I.G.Y. With analysis and daily maps prepared at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory under the direction of professor A.B.Severny. Ed. M.A.Ellison.-1962. Annals of the International Geophysical Year, v.23, 266 p. Pergamon Press.

HS, I'm not sure how the creator of your graph measured sun spots in the 1600's,

How does carbon dioxide cause global warming?
(Lansing State Journal, August 31, 1994)

Fossil fuels such as gasoline, methane and propane contain mostly carbon. When these fuels are burned, they react with oxygen and produce carbon dioxide.

Because of our heavy use of fossil fuels, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been increasing since the industrial revolution. The destruction of forests which use carbon dioxide also contributes to the increase in carbon dioxide.

Most of the light energy from the sun is emitted in wavelengths shorter than 4,000 nanometers (.000004 meters). The heat energy released from the earth, however, is released in wavelengths longer than 4,000 nanometers. Carbon dioxide doesn't absorb the energy from the sun, but it does absorb some of the heat energy released from the earth. When a molecule of carbon dioxide absorbs heat energy, it goes into an excited unstable state. It can become stable again by releasing the energy it absorbed. Some of the released energy will go back to the earth and some will go out into space.

So in effect, carbon dioxide lets the light energy in, but doesn't let all of the heat energy out, similar to a greenhouse.

Currently, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing at the rate of about one part per million per year. If this continues, some meteorologists expect that the average temperature of the earth will increase by about 2.5 degrees Celsius. This doesn't sound like much, but it could be enough to cause glaciers to melt, which would cause coastal flooding.

the many scientist who agree with me

1. The earth's climate has never been stable over geologic time. There have been repeated glaciations and repeated periods of both warming and cooling far greater than are forecast by the AGW cultists. Indeed we are in an interglacial period now.

The mainstream scientific position, and challenges to it
Main article: Scientific opinion on climate change

The finding that the climate has warmed in recent decades and that human activities are already contributing adversely to global climate change has been endorsed by every national science academy that has issued a statement on climate change, including the science academies of all of the major industrialized countries.[32]

Attribution of recent climate change discusses how global warming is attributed to anthropogenic GHGs.

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=f80a6386-802a-23ad-40c8-3c63dc2d02cb
As of December 20, 2007, more than 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries have voiced significant objections to major aspects of the alleged UN IPCC "consensus" on man-made global warming.

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Hydrologist and geologist Mike McConnell of the U.S. Forest Service is a professional Earth scientist who has studied atmospheric pollution, post-wildfire mitigation planning, and groundwater surface water modeling. In 2007, McConnell dissented from the view that mankind has created a climate crisis. “Climate change is a climate system that we have no real control over,” McConnell wrote on December 27, 2007. “Our understanding on the complexities of our climate system, the Earth itself and even the sun are still quite limited. Scaring people into submission is not the answer to get people to change their environmental ways,” McConnell explained. He also dismissed claims that the human race was “the cause of our global warming.” McConnell wrote, “There is no real basis for this. There is a growing body of scientific literatures outlining that this not to be the case.” He concluded, “Now, if Earth was suffering under an accelerated greenhouse effect caused by human produced addition of CO2, the troposphere should heat up faster than the surface of the planet, but data collected from satellites and weather balloons do not support this fundamental presumption even though we are seeing higher CO2. We ought to see near lockstep temperature increments along with higher CO2 concentration over time, especially over the last several years. But we're not.” (LINK) & (LINK) [Updated 12/30/2007]

Our understanding on the complexities of our climate system, the Earth itself and even the sun are still quite limited

Are there any openings for a doctor who specialises in that kind of work in Australia?

how can he then conclude "McConnell dissented from the view that mankind has created a climate crisis."

He contradicted himself. You need to study logic.

He contradicted himself. You need to study logic.

ican, You are a slave to charts that you have no idea what's being posted. Mr McConnell is a Hydrologist, an expert on water. Most scientists who study climate, earth's changing temperatures, and the current rise in CO2, all agree that man-made hydro-carbons are affecting the earth's temperature.

So the question for you is to show evidence that refutes today's scientists on climate change.