On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:55:48 +0000, John Beardmore
wrote:

If the temperature of the sun increases, the rate at which energy
radiates away from this hotter object increases.

Yes. And the extent of this is ?

Quite substantial:

http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/irradiance.gif
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/p...irradiance.txt

So your predicition is that New York will be flooded?

It certainly looks as if more frequent floods may be expected.

Do you have high quality sea level data? If not, how do you conclude
this?

http://www.agu.org/revgeophys/dougla01/node3.html

"In fact, short (a few decades) tide gauge records are of no use
whatsoever for determining an underlying long-term global trend,
because of low-frequency fluctuations of sea level."
[...]
"The conclusion that can be drawn from all of this is that 50 years is
the absolute minimum sea level record length that should be considered
in an analysis of global sea level rise or acceleration from tide
gauge data alone."

We presume that Parker is prepared to support this claim with data...

A trivial google search finds

Nice, but Parker's claims are in general based on nothing at all.

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20061024/

which mostly seems to be based on NOAA data.

This seems to be asserting increasing hurricanes...

U.S. Hurricane Strikes by Decade:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml

Doesn't seem to show an increase in hurricane frequency...

Retief