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Paper that claimed the Sun caused global warming gets retracted:
A paper published last June was catnip for those who are desperate to explain climate change with anything but human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. It was also apparently wrong enough to be retracted this week by the journal that published it, even though its authors objected.
The paper's headline conclusion was that it described a newly discovered cycle in the motion of the Sun, one that put us 300 years into what would be a thousand-year warming period for the Earth. Nevermind that we've been directly measuring the incoming radiation from the Sun and there has been no increase to explain the observed global warming—or that there is no evidence of a 2,000 year temperature cycle in the paleoclimate record.
Those obvious issues didn't stop some people from taking this study as proof that past warming was natural, and only mild and unavoidable warming lies in our future.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2020, @03:41PM (3 children)
If the sun did not shine on the earth billions of years ago, there would not carbon rich plaant life. That life then got "pushed" the bottom of water ways and buried. Then under that pressure converted to oil, coal and natural gas. It stayed there, until a another warm sunny day (thank you sun), it was brought to surface. And humans burned it.
You see the sun energy is being used twice - once from long ago, and current. So it is the sun fault. Sue the sun!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2020, @03:44PM
Then it burns for the third and last time.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Immerman on Saturday March 07 2020, @03:48PM (1 child)
It's not the energy from burning fossil that's the problem - well, other than the fact that it's the motive for us to do so.
IIRC the extra thermal energy reflected back to Earth by the CO2 from burning fossil fuels, is something like a million times greater than the energy that was released by burning the fuel.
Of course it's still ultimately the sun providing the energy, but it's the increasing CO2 "blankets" that are keeping the heat in and warming things up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2020, @06:08PM
That was the fun’s plan. It looks out and see melting mercury. The cloud covered Venus with it oven heat. Those big gas gaints just short of being suns themselves. The earth is just a cool ball with water moisture. So it thought how to fix that?
Give those “ants” away to stay warm. That then makes a heat holding blanket of carbon. It was a long term plan but it is winning!