Reply #6: Global Warming IS a part of a natural cycle... [View All]

[MojoXN]

It's called mean solar output, and it's been rising significantly since the second half of the 19th century. Simply put, the more energy that the Sun puts out, the higher the mean temperature. The various activities of humans are making the situation far, far worse than it would be otherwise, but even if we had NEVER started destroying the O3 layer with CFC's and the like, we'd STILL be experiencing global warming.

As it stands, I don't think that the Earth is on a fast track to Venusian conditions quite yet... A few centuries, who knows? But certainly not yet. Skeptical? Go look at a graph of mean solar output versus global climactic change (specifically temperature rise), and THEN tell me that I'm full of it.

Odd. I once argued this with O'Reily in his radio show, and even HE wouldn't admit that the Sun played a much larger role in determining the Earth's climate than did any activities, destructive or otherwise, of mankind.

I wholeheartedly invite potential refutations.

MojoXN