Climategate
Reading about the planet is interesting .. the climate change debate reminds me a lot of the are cigarettes bad for your health debate when I was young when "scientists" employed by tobacco companies would "prove" that either they weren't bad or were actually good for you.
I guess part of the equation now is for some people this is all about competition .... i.e .. they'll say anything, regardless of facts, to come out on top, then .. for others .. their job might depend on their research so they're over pushing certain facts, or, they hold a grudge or prejudice or a political view that aligns them more with one view than another, and, of course, along with job stability, that job and their research unit might be funded by big business .. such as businesses paying for carbon limiting devices to be invented or, on the other hand, trying to prove that global warming is totally natural.
Things, when just reading the facts, wouldn't occur to you ... you'd think that sorting this out would be more important really. But there you go.
Which ever way it goes, there could still be a need for people with their skills and expertise .. you only have to look at the two poles to realise that human intervention could still be needed, whatever the cause. The cooler temperatures slowed this down a bit last year .. but, as mentioned, we're just gonna have to see what's going to happen in the next few years .. it's still way off what the "norm" would be.
A small article on the history of sunspot observation and their possible effect on the planet
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/SunspotCycle.shtml
That is what is known to have happened
What is going to happen is up for grabs .. the predictions, as you will know by now how ever little interest you may have in the subject, have varied from sunspots may vanish by 2015 to they'll peak in 2012 in a very active cycle.
I guess, one way or another. it should become more obvious just what the connection is or is not.
I guess part of the equation now is for some people this is all about competition .... i.e .. they'll say anything, regardless of facts, to come out on top, then .. for others .. their job might depend on their research so they're over pushing certain facts, or, they hold a grudge or prejudice or a political view that aligns them more with one view than another, and, of course, along with job stability, that job and their research unit might be funded by big business .. such as businesses paying for carbon limiting devices to be invented or, on the other hand, trying to prove that global warming is totally natural.
Things, when just reading the facts, wouldn't occur to you ... you'd think that sorting this out would be more important really. But there you go.
Which ever way it goes, there could still be a need for people with their skills and expertise .. you only have to look at the two poles to realise that human intervention could still be needed, whatever the cause. The cooler temperatures slowed this down a bit last year .. but, as mentioned, we're just gonna have to see what's going to happen in the next few years .. it's still way off what the "norm" would be.
A small article on the history of sunspot observation and their possible effect on the planet
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/SunspotCycle.shtml
That is what is known to have happened
What is going to happen is up for grabs .. the predictions, as you will know by now how ever little interest you may have in the subject, have varied from sunspots may vanish by 2015 to they'll peak in 2012 in a very active cycle.
I guess, one way or another. it should become more obvious just what the connection is or is not.
posted by Zeb at 5:53 AM
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