Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day

Let's hear it for Henrik Svensmark, who despite the climate change frenzy that has gripped the media and a growing number of opportunistic politicians, is speaking up for rationality and against hysteria. Svensmark, a scientist with the Danish Space Research Institute, says that many of the changes in Earth's climate have got absolutely nothing to do with human activity, but are due entirely to variations in the sun's activity in the visible and non-visible spectrum. In this paper, Svensmark says:

"For more than a hundred years there have been reports of an apparent connection between solar activity and Earth's climate. William Herschel, a famous scientist in London suggested in 1801 that the price of wheat was directly controlled by the number of sunspots, based on his observation that less rain fell when there was few sunspots. Since then numerous reports have indicated a link between solar activity and climate, of which most were based on regional observations that in some cases gave conflicting results. Solar activity is now known very long back in time due to the production of isotopes in the atmosphere by galactic cosmic rays. From such records there is a striking qualitatively agreement between cold and warm climatic periods and low and high solar activity, during the last 10.000 years…From year 1000 — 1300 AC solar activity was very high which coincided with the warm medieval period, in fact it was during this period that the Vikings settled in Greenland. Solar activity decreased considerably after 1300 AC and a long cold period followed now called the little ice age. This climatic shift was a disaster for the Vikings. The Little Ice Age lasted until the middle of the last century. During this century solar activity has again increased and is the highest in the last 600 years."

Yes, humans are causing tremendous environmental damage, but that is not the same as proving that we are the sole cause of global climate change. There is mounting evidence that the sun has far more of an impact than does atmospheric CO₂, but the problem for the global warming fanatics is that they cannot prove that George W. Bush controls the sun. No wonder they stick with their outdated and unpersuasive theories. Tomorrow, here, another voice speaking out against climate change hysteria: John Christy.