More Evidence Against Man-made Climate Change

Does anyone else feel like they woke up one day to find themselves living in a world that is completely obssessed with the idea of so-called man-made climate change. I do.

Yet, despite the continuing obsession with "green" concerns in our popular culture, in the mainstream media, and among Democratic politicians, there is a growing body of research that debunks the idea of man-made climate change (see my previous posts on this topic here, and if you have time, here and here).

Now there is this from Investors Business Daily:

...The world has significantly cooled in the last decade, a period that corresponds to a decline and virtual halt in sunspot activity. Solar activity is in a valley right now, the deepest of the past century. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports that in 2008 and 2009 the sun set Space Age records for low sunspot counts, weak solar wind and low solar radiance.

R. Timothy Patterson, professor of geology and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center of Canada's Carleton University, has said that "CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet's climate on long-, medium- and even short-time scales."

Rather, he says, "I and the first-class scientists I work with are consistently finding excellent correlations between the regular fluctuations of the sun and earthly climate. This is not surprising. The sun and the stars are the ultimate source of energy on this planet."

A Hoover Institution Study a few years back examined historical data and came to a similar conclusion. "The effects of solar activity and volcanoes are impossible to miss. Temperatures fluctuated exactly as expected, and the pattern was so clear that, statistically, the odds of the correlation existing by chance were less than one in 100," according to Hoover fellow Bruce Berkowitz.

Current solar inactivity is similar to what scientists call the Maunder Minimum, a period of solar inactivity from 1645 to 1715 that spawned what is known as the Little Ice Age. At Christmas, Londoners could ice skate on the frozen Thames and New Yorkers could walk over the Hudson from Manhattan to Staten Island.

The NCAR study shows how complicated atmospheric and climate science really is and how many variables must be factored in to have even a basic understanding of all the components that make up and influence earth's climate before the world commits economic suicide. Full story

With Cap-and-Trade legislation (which will cause energy costs to "skyrocket" as President Obama himself says on video here) soon to be revisited in the Congress, we must do what we can to make others aware the science on this issue is not settled (despite what Al Gore says!).