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- greenfyre, on 06/08/2008, -1/+21) This is not a US Army position, but rather a report on the work of one scientist employed by the US Army
2) Looking that their Physics Today paper http://www.fel.duke.edu/~scafetta/pdf/opinion0308. ... it is in published as "Opinion", not as peer reviewed research (why not?)
3) They report that the suns influence "could be as much as 70%", omitting that by their model it could be as low as 15%. Reporting one extreme and not the other is cheesy
4) It is not at all clear from this opinion piece whether this is an entire reworking of their earlier piece http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2006GL027142 ... or whether it merely a representation of it. It looks a lot like the critique of their earlier paper still applies http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006 ...
In sum, it is one model by two men that has been heavily critiqued; that is no reason to reject it, but equally it is no reason to embrace it either - it certainly does not make the tens of thousands of studies by tens of thousands of scientists magically disappear.
There are some real warning flags here. - greenfyre, on 06/08/2008, -1/+1"little science to ..." Please let me know what is wrong with the science here http://www.realclimate.org/
"(as it has since 1998)" Utter nonsense http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/11/4/175028/ ...
"I wonder how much longer the politicians " Another Denier myth, that politicians are driving this. As is well documented http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg1892 ... the politicians have been trying to suppress climate science, not support it - TheLittleWitch, on 06/07/2008, -1/+1You will find more about climate change on this website.
- rhjames, on 06/08/2008, -2/+1There's certainly plenty of research that supports solar activity as the dominant effect. The Maunder period which coincided with unusually low sunspot activity is pretty obvious. On the other hand, there seems to be little science to support anthropogenic global warming. As each month goes by, and the earth shows signs of cooling (as it has since 1998), the case for global warming disappears. I wonder how much longer the politicians they can take us for a ride on this one. Surely it's time to demand that they stop wasting taxpayers money on this.
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