"March 11, 2009"
http://www.spaceweather.com/
"Daily Sun: 11 Mar 09 The sun is blank--no sunspots. Sunspot number: 0"
"Far side of the Sun: This holographic image reveals no sunspots on the far
side of the sun."
"Planetary K-index
Now: Kp= 0 quiet"

The face of the Sun is without blemish:
http://www.spaceweather.com/images20...nt93al9c j6v2

Please visit:
http://blog.nj.com/southjersey_impac...SolarCycle.jpg

The right panel shows the face of the Sun as it looked on a good day during
the late Modern Warm Period. Sunspots are the apparent size of craters on
the moon. The left panel shows a spotless Sun as it looks today.

Please write to Al Gore so that Al knows that the Sun is not living up to
his religious expectations. Al Gore is a divinity school dropout. George
Carlin had a better grasp of the true nature of God's creation, than does Al
Gore.

Please visit:
http://www.co-intelligence.org/newsl...es/sun-etc.jpg
which shows the relative sizes of the Sun and planets. Compared to the Sun,
Jupiter is the size of a pea, earth is the size of a grain of sand.

March 10, 2009
Global-Warming Skeptics Raise A Storm In New York
by Nikola Krastev

NEW YORK -- These are tough times to be a skeptic about global warming.

Two years ago, an international United Nations panel concluded with near
certainty that human activity plays a role in the planet's rising
temperatures. And now, the new U.S. administration has vowed to spearhead
international efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

But more than 600 people gathered in New York City this week at the
International Conference on Climate Change say they are up to the challenge.

Joseph Bast, president of the Heartland Institute, which organized the
conference, argues that the extent and causes of global warming are far from
proven. The goal of the gathering, he tells RFE/RL, is to provide a forum to
challenge people like former U.S. Vice President Al Gore with a healthy dose
of skepticism.

"We think we have a great story to tell that more and more prominent
scientists are coming out saying global warming is not a crisis, that the
question of what causes it and how extensive it's going to be are wide open
in the scientific community," Bast said.

"And that message is not effectively reaching enough people," he adds. "So,
by holding an event like this we hope that we can get the attention of more
people and eventually have an effect on public policy."

There is a special urgency at this year's gathering. Governments around the
world are working on plans to further tax greenhouse-gas emissions, while
U.S. President Barack Obama has proposed to roll greenhouse-gas emissions
back to their 1990s levels.

'Vehicle For Government Intervention'

But many conference participants say those efforts are misguided. Those who
acknowledge global warming is happening say the Earth is going through a
natural, periodic cycle, with industrial activity contributing very little
to the process. By the ideology which uses or misuses it -- it has gradually
turned into the most efficient vehicle for advocating extensive government
intervention into all fields of life and for suppressing human freedom and
economic prosperity.

The Heartland Institute bills itself as a free-market think tank. Until
2006, the Chicago-based group received money from oil giant Exxon Mobil,
although that has now stopped. The institute has not shied away from taking
up other controversial causes. For example, it also seeks to decrease high
taxes on cigarettes and curbs on smokers.

The keynote speech was delivered by Czech President Vaclav Klaus, who has
become well-known for his opinions on the issue. Speaking to students at
Columbia University a day later, he reaffirmed his vocal opposition to the
concept that global warming is man-made.

"The problem is not global warming," Klaus said. "By the ideology which uses
or misuses it -- it has gradually turned into the most efficient vehicle for
advocating extensive government intervention into all fields of life and for
suppressing human freedom and economic prosperity."

'An Overstated Truth'?

Al Gore has won worldwide acclaim for his environmental activities and
especially for raising awareness about climate change with the film "An
Inconvenient Truth." In 2007 he won the Nobel Peace Prize along with the UN
panel for his climate-change-awareness activities.

Bast of the Heartland Institute argues that although Gore is the most
prominent spokesman for the man-made climate-change cause, his arguments lie
"way outside the mainstream scientific community."

"Very few qualified scientists would say that Al Gore and what he says in
his film is accurate. He grossly overstates the possibility of sea-level
rise for example," Bast says.

"There's simply no peer-reviewed scientific literature that would justify
predictions of a 20-foot [6-meter] rise in sea level, and yet that's very
prominent in his film."

Dr. Howard MacCabee, an oncologist in California and a conference
participant, says that even very liberal estimates show that industrial
pollution by itself has negligible or little effect on global warming.

"Human contribution is small, probably not zero, and it's small compared to
these other factors which we cannot change. We cannot change the sun, we
cannot change [the sun's] multidecadal oscillations, we can't change ocean
currents, we can't stop El Nino," MacCabee says.

"El Nino was the biggest spike on the temperature for the past 40 years.
That was in 1998 and the hottest year in our recent history was the 1998,
the year of El Nino, which has nothing to do with CO2 [carbon dioxide]," he
adds.

For now, the conference participants seem to be losing the argument.

A recent opinion poll in the United States showed that 58 percent of
respondents believe climate change is at least partly caused by humans. But
another poll, by the Pew Research Center, indicates that in these times of
economic turmoil, addressing climate change is not a top priority for many
Americans.

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