Did you ever stop to think that maybe the SUN has something to do with global warming?

Answer 1

Thats it! we should tax the sun. That'll stop global warming.lmao

Answer 2

Let me take this opportunity to discuss a fact and some old science.
1st the fact: During the 3.5 billion years the earth has existed, less than 40% of that time polar icecaps existed on the planet. In other words, not having polar icecaps is more normal to the planet. Having polar icecaps is less the norm. The earth is currently emerging from an ice age that started 70 million years ago.

Now the old science. This was discussed 30 years ago and completely forgotten, it seems. The earth revolves around the sun tilted on its axis. This tilt causes the seasons. What was discovered decades age it that the earth wobbles on its axis.
These wobbles occur tens and hundreds of millions of years apart over a matter of hundreds and thousands of centuries. The wobbles change the pitch of the earth toward the sun and shift the continental plates, which increases earthquake activity and volcanic activity.
The shifting continental plates raises and lower the ocean floor. Under the ocean, there are vast seas of liquid methane compress under the weight of the ocean. If the ocean floor is lifted high enough, the pressure is released om these seas of methane and they vaporized, turn to gas. The gas rises from the ocean floor and escape into the atmosphere, which creates increased CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

Understand this. The oceans filters CO2 out of the atmosphere. Whenever the position of the earth relative to the position of the sun changes just a tiny bit, the gravitational pull of the sun alters the face of the earth. The the surface of the earth is alter, a lot of the CO2 that has been trapped over millions and millions of years is released back into the air.

So, is global warming happening. Yes, but it ain't because of tiny little man. It's because the huge gravitation pull of the sun is releasing trapped CO2. There isn't a darn thing anyone can do to prevent it. Are we all gonna die? Someday.

Answer 3

For all of you people who respond to this question by flat-out rejecting the idea, try looking at some graphs of solar activity over the last few decades. The Sun puts out more and less energy depending on many different factors -- rate of hydrogen consumption, gravitational influences, magnetic field fluctuations, and some that are so complicated that they make my head explode. I have a related theory: the Sun may indeed be (and probably is) getting warmer, but think back to elementary school science class. The Earth's orbit is never a perfect circle -- it's an ellipse. Therefore, there are times when the orbit is longer on one side and times when it is perfectly circular; planetary orbits aren't perfect and constant, either. Does anyone think that the planet might be reaching its perigee to the Sun -- meaning that the planet's CLOSER to the star than usual?

Answer 4

sure it is :) , the moon is contributing too.
The only problem is that intergovernmental scientist organization concluded that global warming is man made with 90% probability.

I guess you are waiting for 100% ?

Question for you. Solar activity did spike up with a top readings in 2001. Its activity is going down from that time. So why ... 2004,2005, 2006 are consistently hottest years on record? With your theory temperature should have decreased from 2001 ?


On May 6, 2000, however, New Scientist magazine reported that Lassen and astrophysicist Peter Thejll had updated Lassen's 1991 research and found that while the solar cycle still accounts for about half the temperature rise since 1900, it fails to explain a rise of 0.4 °C since 1980. "The curves diverge after 1980," Thejll said, "and it's a startlingly large deviation. Something else is acting on the climate.... It has the fingerprints of the greenhouse effect."[29]

Answer 5

Yes, the sun is a major part of the global warming science.

Answer 6

It will in the future, but after it turns into a "red giant", but for now it's more the Earth's orbit around the Sun.

It's not perfectly spherical, it's actually eliptical and changing constantly.

Also, like a spinning top, the Earth's axis rotates as it spins. Every 20,000 years the axis makes a full rotation.

And not coincidentally, we dip into an age age roughly every 20,000 years.

The wobble is called the Malankovich cycle.

Answer 7

With the new evidence showing other planets warming up there are only two options. The sun is warming them OR the earth is radiating more heat. I however do not think the 1 or 2 degrees of additional heat is enough to heat neighboring planets. Perhaps on our next mission to mars we can send a representative to talk to the martians about the use of carbon credits.

Answer 8

It doesn't. Global warming doesn't exist. How else can you explain the mini-ice age and heating period that occurred in the Middle Ages? We're just barely at the point where the average was (before the mini-ice age) today.

Answer 9

Good question. I posted a similar question a few weeks ago with the following link.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html
And yet we still have nincompoops who actually believe it is man's fault, that we have to go back to living in caves and eating wild berries so as not to offend Mother Earth.
Give me a break!!

PS. I just found another interesting link.
http://www.redicecreations.com/specialreports/2006/11nov/solarsystemwarming.html
Enjoy!! Then send it to Al Gore!

Answer 10

Most of them refuse to admit that there have been times in the history of the planet that we have had no polar ice caps. All without man even in the picture.

Answer 11

Considering that the sun has been shining on the Earth for several million years and something like this has never happened before, I'd say the sun didn't have a hell of a lot to do with it.