Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun. "The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars," he said. ------------------------------------------------------------------
I've always been a fan of Abdussamatov's but the National Geographic story is unfortunately incomplete for those who aren't subscribers. The link Eric provided ends with this provocative sentence 'Abdussamatov's work, however, has not been well received by other climate scientists.' Then: 'Continued on Next Page >>,' a clickable line. Clicking on it thoughleads not to the next page but, well...nowhere, except to a National Geographic page from which one can go back to the original for-subscribers-only story.
One would like to know not only what Abdussamatov says but what the responses of 'other climate scientists' to it might be. Maybe Eric knows, but I hope for obvious reasons that he doesn't.
Robert Paul Department of Martian Studies Mutton College ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html