Solar activity 'not the cause of global warming

Tittle: Solar activity 'not the cause of global warming.
Source: www.articlecity.com
Date of Publication: 11 July, 2007.
Author: Steve Connor, Science Editor.

Vocabulary:

- Disprove: verb, to show that something is wrong or false. Opposite: prove.
- U-turn: noun, informal, a complete change in behaviour.
- Counter: combinig form, against, opposite.
- Ascribe: verb, to consider that something is caused by a particular thing or person.
- Swindle: noun, a situation in which somebody uses dishonest or illegal methods in orther to get money from a company, another person, etc.
- Outrage: verb, to make somebody very shocked and angry.

Main Ideas:

- A detailed study of the Sun, revealed that solar activity is not the cause of global warming.
- Scientists have abandoned the theory that global warming can be explained by vaiations of the natural cycle sof the sun.
- An analysis of the records of the Sun's activities shows that since 1985 solar activity has decreased while global warming increased.
- Over the past twenty years the Sun did a U-turn in every respect and has run in the opposite direction to global warming.
- There is considerable evidence for solar influence on Earth's pre industrial climate and the Sun may have been a factor in the post industrial climate change during the 1st half of the last century.
- The theory that past changes in solar activity may have explained some changes in the climate before the Industrial Revolution is not under dispute.
- However, after 1985, the rapid rise in global mean temperatures cannot be ascribed to solar variability.
- Climate sceptics have exploited the old theory to dispute the idea that man-made emissions are responsible for global wraming.
- Recently, a doummentary erroneously presented the rise in solar activity over the latter half of the 20th century as the cause of the rise in global average temperatures.
- Scientist were outrage when they saw the docummentary because it showed graphs of temperature rises and sunspot cycles that were cut off in the 1980's.
- The sceptics are believed to be using the theory of solar activity as the cause of modern-day warming in a misappropriate way and to be bringing the new theory into disrespect.
- The general claim is that there is a small minority which is seeking to confuse the public an the causes of climate change.
- This minority is believed to be misrepresenting the science when the reality is that the evidence of man-made greenhoses gasses as responsible for actual global warming is getting stronger every day.

Personal Reaction:

The position of the ones who object the theory of the sun as not loger responsible for global warming, is a clear evidence of a type of scepticism based on the personal interests of some people in contrast to the general interest of preserving our planet shared by the rest of the world.
There's no other reason than a stronge economical interest from part of those sceptics to show themselves in opposition to what is finally scientific demostrated.
No matter how ridiculous their attitude is or how inappropriate is to continue supporting a theory that was blowed away, for it is evidently more important to make money for those ones, despite the fact that the path they take to do this grately contributes to global warming.
Those sceptics are surely the ones who produce more greenhouse gasses than anybody else in the world.They are the owners, excecutive representatives and business men in charge of the most important and at the same time most contaminating plants, industries and factories of the world, which are the origin of non friendly gasses to our atmosphere, in the form of products of several types and industrial garbage.
Luckily, they are a small group in comparision to the ones that already support the new theories regarding global warming...Soon or later they will have to accept their responsibility in relation to this. The science will keep on demostrating which are the real causes of the problem and there will come the day when the reason of the rise in Earth's mean temperature, will be finally proved to be men pollution, and sceptics will no longer be in the position to discuss that.