The Role of the Sun in Climate Change
The Role of the Sun in Climate Change – Review
To those Seekers of Truth interested in the facts containing the "Global Warming" debate should start with this book. This is a very accessible, very well written book. First and foremost it establishes the chronological record for climate change. I’d supplement that by pointing out that 100 years of data doesn’t establish any major trend worth actually talking about especially considering the great variations in climate known over hundreds of thousands of years. The book becomes into important detail seeing a amount of likely factors that may affect climate. No attempt is usually made to favor one factor over another beyond an examination of how well each correlates to the real record. However, the data does show very skeptical for human-induced climatic change. After all, how many SUVs were there during the Medieval Warm Period (800 AD to 1300 AD)? What eventually drove the extreme cooling of the Younger Dryas (12,700 years ago)? What successfully drove the extreme warming that ended that period of cooling? Of most interest to me, was the link of sun spot cycles, and more importantly the long-standing record of sun spot minima and maxima within those cycles over hundreds of years, with climate. Also, of major interest are full explanations explaining how variations in solar output energy and distribution with respect to wavelength, may force developed climatic responses. In all, I warmly recommend this book to anyone interested in the truth about the factors forcing climatic changes. You’ll never hear any of this from those with a vested economic interest in scare mongering. Nor do I simply put much stock in the social scientists creating up a great majority of those scientists spoke to be generally convinced that humanity is the main cause of Global Warming. Nor will you hear any hint of it from the scientifically bankrupt main media outlets. These ideas simply cannot be uncomfortably crammed into an 11-second sound bite. But, more importantly sensationalism is the stock in exchange of TV news illustrates. The scientific-illiterati amongst the actually talking heads will blame drivers in SUVs for on-screen pictures of floods and storms rather something which they cannot possibly control, such as the Sun.