tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34993014.post2003464412891436582..comments2024-01-13T10:12:47.756+00:00Comments on Ranting Stan: Shaming of a great institutionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34993014.post-23544130209740709942007-07-11T23:50:00.000+01:002007-07-11T23:50:00.000+01:00"It's the large, fiery ball at the center of the s..."It's the large, fiery ball at the center of the solar system, but that's not important right now."<BR/><BR/>Sorry, couldn't resist.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04829766843115897356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34993014.post-33387128346547887992007-07-11T22:07:00.000+01:002007-07-11T22:07:00.000+01:00Thanks for the link, anon - good, interesting stuf...Thanks for the link, anon - good, interesting stuff.<BR/><BR/>One wonders what the Royal Society is up to allowing purely political statements with no scientific foundation to be made under their name.Stanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15007863347348182876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34993014.post-28166005290111819532007-07-11T21:28:00.000+01:002007-07-11T21:28:00.000+01:00A May 2005 SCIENCE Magazine article says the sun's...A May 2005 SCIENCE Magazine article says the sun's radiance INcreased from 1990 to 2005. Who's right?<BR/><BR/>From Dimming to Brightening: Decadal Changes in Solar Radiation at Earth's Surface <BR/>Martin Wild,1* Hans Gilgen,1 Andreas Roesch,1 Atsumu Ohmura,1 Charles N. Long,2 Ellsworth G. Dutton,3 Bruce Forgan,4 Ain Kallis,5 Viivi Russak,6 Anatoly Tsvetkov7 <BR/>Variations in solar radiation incident at Earth's surface profoundly affect the human and terrestrial environment. A decline in solar radiation at land surfaces has become apparent in many observational records up to 1990, a phenomenon known as global dimming. Newly available surface observations from 1990 to the present, primarily from the Northern Hemisphere, show that the dimming did not persist into the 1990s. Instead, a widespread brightening has been observed since the late 1980s. This reversal is reconcilable with changes in cloudiness and atmospheric transmission and may substantially affect surface climate, the hydrological cycle, glaciers, and ecosystems.<BR/><BR/>http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/308/5723/847Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34993014.post-28603634303063990832007-07-11T12:18:00.000+01:002007-07-11T12:18:00.000+01:00I couldn't agree more Stan.I too read this, on the...I couldn't agree more Stan.<BR/><BR/>I too read this, on the BBC website this morning.<BR/><BR/>My own conclusion was how much it appeared to be published to merely stifle 'an inconvenient claim about climate'.<BR/><BR/>The gall of the man to selectively choose just 30 years of data to debunk a theory, and then to reprimand other scientists for choosing a different x-axis..<BR/><BR/>This smells of a panic response. Can't be having the public thinking too much about the issue eh..? Get it stifled and do it quickly..<BR/>What a crock.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com