While Al Gore is waving his arms in the air about how Hurricane Katrina (and everything else) is Man's Fault, some actual scientists are plodding along doing real work:
Global warming has finally been explained: the Earth is getting hotter because the Sun is burning more brightly than at any time during the past 1,000 years, according to new research.
A study by Swiss and German scientists suggests that increasing radiation from the sun is responsible for recent global climate changes.
Dr Sami Solanki, the director of the renowned Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Gottingen, Germany, who led the research, said: "The Sun has been at its strongest over the past 60 years and may now be affecting global temperatures.
"The Sun is in a changed state. It is brighter than it was a few hundred years ago and this brightening started relatively recently - in the last 100 to 150 years."
Dr Solanki said that the brighter Sun and higher levels of "greenhouse gases", such as carbon dioxide, both contributed to the change in the Earth's temperature but it was impossible to say which had the greater impact.
"100 to 150 years"? Isn't that the time period over which the current warming is supposed to have taken place? Well, now, that's quite a coincidence....
Of course the Telegraph feels it necessary to blunt the impact of that statement with a blatant falsehood about "new extremes in weather patterns." No, scientists don't believe that; some scientists have made such claims, and have been forced to back down when faced with responsible science.
No real scientists beleive that Katrina was caused by global warming--just another in a long list of half-truths and exaggerations by Al Gore...
Posted by: feline | May 24, 2006 at 13:37