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The supposed deleted text:
The Sun is the primary forcing of Earth's climate system. Sunlight warms our world. Sunlight drives atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns. Sunlight powers the process of photosynthesis that plants need to grow. Sunlight causes convection which carries warmth and water vapor up into the sky where clouds form and bring rain. In short, the Sun drives almost every aspect of our world's climate system and makes possible life as we know it.
Earth's orbit around and orientation toward the Sun change over spans of many thousands of years. In turn, these changing "orbital mechanics" force climate to change because they change where and how much sunlight reaches Earth. (Please see for more details.) Thus, changing Earth's exposure to sunlight forces climate to change. According to scientists' models of Earth's orbit and orientation toward the Sun indicate that our world should be just beginning to enter a new period of cooling — perhaps the next ice age.
However, a new force for change has arisen: humans. After the industrial revolution, humans introduced increasing amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and changed the surface of the landscape to an extent great enough to influence climate on local and global scales. By driving up carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere (by about 30 percent), humans have increased its capacity to trap warmth near the surface.
Other important forcings of Earth's climate system include such "variables" as clouds, airborne particulate matter, and surface brightness. Each of these varying features of Earth's environment has the capacity to exceed the warming influence of greenhouse gases and cause our world to cool. For example, increased cloudiness would give more shade to the surface while reflecting more sunlight back to space. Increased airborne particles (or "aerosols") would scatter and reflect more sunlight back to space, thereby cooling the surface. Major volcanic eruptions (such as that of Mt. Pinatubo in 1992) can inject so much aerosol into the atmosphere that, as it spreads around the globe, it reduces sunlight and cause Earth to cool. Likewise, increasing the surface area of highly reflective surface types, such as ice sheets, reflects greater amounts of sunlight back to space and causes Earth to cool.
Scientists are using NASA satellites to monitor all of the aforementioned forcings of Earth's climate system to better understand how they are changing over time, and how any changes in them affect climate.
Supposed screenshot of the page: https://s3.amazonaws.com/jo.nova/debunk/us/nasa/nasa-climate-forcings-2010.gif
Supposed archive.org link (no longer works):
https://web.archive.org/web/20100416015231/https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/big-questions/what-are-the-primary-causes-of-the-earth-system-variability/]
Articles from 2010-2011 quoting the link and then noting it has disappeared:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/12/climate_change_its_the_sun_stu.html
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/01/nasas_muzzle_hustle.html
Is this fake news? Can anyone here verify whether this page ever existed (or not)?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 21 2019, @08:38PM
you're a sycophantic slave. these licensing schemes are only to con people to give their natural rights to feed themselves away to some leach piece of shit sitting at a desk. Also, to use tax dollars to steal natural resources for the elite of the world. why do you think the national parks, etc are owned by the UN? world heritage sites, etc. this is about keeping the rabble out of their lawns of the future. governments could have just passed proper laws that place limits on what people can kill without these licensing schemes, but then they would have been accountable to the voters and you wouldn't have to fund their leach industry. instead, once they get these lazy minded slaves to agree to licensing they can just make up any crazy rules they want and stick their nose into everything. just watch these park pig shows on tv to see examples of how fucking stupid the regs are already getting. even where hogs are breeding out of control and damaging property these state pigs want you to have a license, and wear a vest on your own property. that's right. if you have invasive wild fucking boars tearing up your property or endangering your kids you're supposed to beg permission from some piece of shit leach. fuck you.