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The Great Global Warming Swindle
GillE:
After seeing last night's The Great Global Warming Swindle on C4, I'm interested in learning more about variations in the sun's activity, especially sunspots. Can anyone point me to a site that explores this astronomical phenomenon in layman's terms? I'd also be interested in learning more about how we measure the sun's activity and where data that scientists use can be found.
Gill
Clive:
Damn I wish I had known that was on since I have been a long-time advocate of solar activity as the chief cause of global warming. Our sun has long been known to be a variable star and it hardly takes rocket science to work out that it will have periods when it is hotter or cooler than usual. Sunspot activity is always a good indicator of the Sun's temperature and NASA has quite a good website explaining a bit about their background. HERE It also provides links to the data records. For today's sunspot activity, you can do no better than go to http://www.spaceweather.com/
Hopefully Ch4 will repeat the programme on E4, More4 or S4C in the very near future.
GillE:
Those are good links, Clive - many thanks :) .
I recorded the programme on my computer so I could let you have a copy if you like. Unfortunately, it's 949mb and I don't know how to get a file of that size to you :( .
Gill
Sandra:
I recorded it but havent watched it all yet.
I saw a few bits and was pleased to see that it appears to confirm what I posted some time ago about volcanoes producing more CO2 each year than humans produce worldwide.
Also there was something about the amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere rising some 800 years after the earths temperature rises and falling 800 years after the temperature drops and it has been shown to do that regularly by analysing frozen core samples from the poles.
So it looks like Gordons tenner a flight tax just isnt go to change much at all, apart from to hit the poorer people harder and rake in a nice little extra bit of cash to fund MPs pay rises and pensions ::)
To Gill :
Convert it to DVD format and burn to a DVD and post it, or run it through something like DVD shrink to make it fit on a CD, it wont lose much quality as I assume its Mpeg2, then he can watch it on his pc.
You would have to connect your speakers though Clive ;)
Sandra:
The program is being repeated on More 4 on Monday March 12th at 10 to 11-40 pm Clve :)
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