On Jul 11, 9:45 am, Roger Coppock wrote:
The rise in the global mean surface temperature since 1985 was not
due to sunspots, solar cycle length, solar magnetic field, cosmic
rays,
or solar irradiance. These factors were all causing cooling during
the
period, if they were doing anything at all.

Please read this article and look carefully at the 6-part chart:http://environment.newscientist.com/...s-activity-rul...

The original article published by the Royal Society,
if you're a member or want to pay for it, is hehttp://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/c...4264320314105/

This puts the fossil fool's attempts at astrology to bed.

Also, just in the news today:

"LONDON (Reuters) - The sun's changing energy levels are not to blame
for recent global warming and, if anything, solar variations over the
past 20 years should have had a cooling effect, scientists said on
Wednesday.

Their findings add to a growing body of evidence that human activity,
not natural causes, lies behind rising average world temperatures,
which are expected to reach their second highest level this year since
records began in the 1860s.

There is little doubt that solar variability has influenced the
Earth's climate in the past and may well have been a factor in the
first half of the last century, but British and Swiss researchers said
it could not explain recent warming.

"Over the past 20 years, all the trends in the sun that could have had
an influence on Earth's climate have been in the opposite direction to
that required to explain the observed rise in global mean
temperatures," they wrote in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.

Most scientists say emissions of greenhouse gases, mainly from burning
fossil fuels in power plants, factories and cars, are the prime cause
of the current warming trend.

A dwindling group pins the blame on natural variations in the climate
system, or a gradual rise in the sun's energy output.

They concluded that the rapid rise in global mean temperatures seen
since the late 1980s could not be ascribed to solar variability,
whatever mechanism was invoked.

Britain's Royal Society -- one of the world's oldest scientific
academies, founded in 1660 -- said the new research was an important
rebuff to climate change skeptics.

"At present there is a small minority which is seeking to deliberately
confuse the public on the causes of climate change. They are often
misrepresenting the science, when the reality is that the evidence is
getting stronger every day," it said in a statement."