Loki wrote:
My research is not haphazard. This is not research. It is an interesting article, offered to all those people who worship at the altar of NASA, and consider any statement they make to be holy writ. When I research a subject, it contains more than one little article that piqued my interest. Climate change is happening. How much is manmade is the question.
"Editor's Note: NASA Expert: Sun Cycles To Cause 30 Year Cold Spell"
Well, there ya go. Sun cycles. All that focus on an increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide by what? .005%, something like that, when all it takes to cool off the planet is a very slight decrease in solar activity. Our Sun goes through output cycles.
We have increased atmospheric CO2, or something has, since the advent of the Industrial Revolution and our increasing burning of fossil fuels, releasing lots of CO2 into the air, and this very likely could cause an increase in the greenhouse effect, since CO2 is a "very potent", as Wikipedia puts it, greenhouse gas. The Wikipedia article also states flatly that the Earth is warming because of this CO2 increase, which I think is crap, however, since even NASA, as you point out, says that the opposite is true.
What I think is happening is that Earth's climate is CHANGING. Just because Polar ice is melting does NOT mean that the Earth is getting warmer, it just means that the poles are getting warmer. The fact is, other places are getting colder and overall, the Earth really appears to be cooling rather than warming.
In fact, it looks to me that the increase in CO2 is a good thing from a human standpoint, because we're actually overdue for another Ice Age, which is probably triggered in good part by the cooling cycle of the Sun, and by increasing our Greenhouse Effect we're staving off that Ice Age, possibly even preventing it. Without an increase in the Greenhouse Effect to offset lessened Sun heat, we might already be seeing winter lasting well into June.
So for all those who are shedding feathers over Climate Change (since they've mostly dropped the Global Warming hue and cry now), there's a real good chance you folks may soon be calling for the re-opening of all those coal mines. Because it's going to get colder, not warmer.