Tuesday, July 10, 2007

NASA Picture of the Day

NASA Picture of the Day.

I have added a link on the sidebar for those of you who would like to check this out daily. Just below the Amazon link in the "More About Me" section.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

M. Simon,

Just to point out one obvious problem: the article you quote claims a huge increase in sunspot activity - 1825%. But the variation in solar luminosity hasn't been more than 0.1%.

So what's he supposing is the mechanism for heating? Molecules of mercury that are secretly fantasizing about sunspots, getting excited, and jumping up & down?

With respect to temperature trends: apply a 5-year smoothing filter (typical for climate considerations) and look at the trends over the last 100 years. They're pretty clearly upwards.