CO2 AS HIGH AS EVER, BUT WE'RE HAVING A COOOL SPRING. COULD IT BE THE SUN!?!?

I DON'T BELIEVE IN AGW.

MOSTLY BECAUSE OF THESE FOUR FACTS:

1. EVEN THOUGH CO2 HAS STEADILY INCREASED, GLOBAL TEMPERATURES HAVE NOT.
2. CO2 IS A SMALL FRACTION OF THE ATMOSPHERE AND MAN-MADE CO2... EVEN SMALLER.
3. CO2 IS A POOR CONDUCTOR.
4. DRAMATIC CLIMATE CHANGE HAS BEEN A FEATURE OF THE EARTH'S CLIMATE FOR 4.5 BILLION YEARS.

NOW THERE'S THIS: WE'RE IN A SLOW SUNSPOT PERIOD AND THE SUNSPOT ACTIVITY IS SET TO INCREASE SOON, BUT NOT BY AS MUCH AS USUAL...

NASA:

An international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle. Solar Cycle 24 will peak, they say, in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots.

"If our prediction is correct, Solar Cycle 24 will have a peak sunspot number of 90, the lowest of any cycle since 1928 when Solar Cycle 16 peaked at 78," says panel chairman Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.

...The latest forecast revises an earlier prediction issued in 2007. At that time, a sharply divided panel believed solar minimum would come in March 2008 followed by either a strong solar maximum in 2011 or a weak solar maximum in 2012. Competing models gave different answers, and researchers were eager for the sun to reveal which was correct.

"It turns out that none of our models were totally correct," says Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's lead representative on the panel. "The sun is behaving in an unexpected and very interesting way."

Researchers have known about the solar cycle since the mid-1800s. Graphs of sunspot numbers resemble a roller coaster, going up and down with an approximately 11-year period. At first glance, it looks like a regular pattern, but predicting the peaks and valleys has proven troublesome. Cycles vary in length from about 9 to 14 years. Some peaks are high, others low.

The valleys are usually brief, lasting only a couple of years, but sometimes they stretch out much longer.

In the 17th century the sun plunged into a 70-year period of spotlessness known as the Maunder Minimum that still baffles scientists.

THE MAUNDER MINIMUM COINCIDED WITH REALLY COLD WEATHER: WIKI:

The Maunder Minimum coincided with the middle — and coldest part — of the Little Ice Age, during which Europe and North America, and perhaps much of the rest of the world, were subjected to bitterly cold winters.

Whether there is a causal connection between low sunspot activity and cold winters is the subject of ongoing debate (e.g., see Global Warming).

The subject of "ongoing debate"!?!??!?! ONGOING DEBATE!?!?

ONLY BECAUSE THE ECO-NUTSIES WHO BELIEVE IN AGW REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE TRUTH.

IT'S WARMER IN SUMMER THAN WINTER, AND IN THE DAY THAN NIGHT AND IN THE SUN THAN IN THE SHADE.

D'YA THINK MAYBE JUST THE SUN AND SUN CYCLES MIGHT HAVE A LITTLE SOMETHING TO DO WITH CLIMATE CHANGE!?!?!?

YES: FACTS, FIGURES, PHOTOS, CHARTS. TRUTH.

WE'RE IN A VALLEY NOW: SUNSPOT ACTIVITY HAS BEEN LOW FOR A WHILE. THAT'S WHY SPRING WHERE I'M AT HAS BEEN LOUSY.