Reply #4: An editorial in my local paper today...

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also spoke of the "myth" of Global Climate Change"
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http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2009/09/22/opinion/438229.txt

Myth continues to unravel

An international team of scientists led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) concludes the earth's weather definitely is affected by the 11-year solar cycles. "The sun, the stratosphere and the oceans are connected in ways that can influence events such as winter rainfall in North America" and much more, wrote lead author Gerald Meehl in the team's paper published in the journal Science.

"The study found that chemicals in the stratosphere and sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean respond during solar maximum in a way that amplifies the sun's influence on some aspects of air movement," Space.com summarized. "This can intensify winds and rainfall, change sea surface temperatures and cloud cover over certain tropical and subtropical regions, and ultimately influence global weather."

None of this is especially surprising because as the Web site says, the sun "is the ultimate source of all the energy on Earth; its rays heat the planet and drive the churning motions of its atmosphere." Bottom line: The study finds the sun — duh! — is the major player in ever-changing regional and global weather and climate patterns, an inconvenient truth Al Gore and his acolytes refuse to accept because it would render their financial and political investments in the global-warming applesauce and green energy worthless.

So it isn't especially surprising, either, that people would suffer severe eye strain waiting in vain for Space.com to connect the dots to "global warming" or "climate change," even though the Science article on the NCAR report is categorized under "climate change" and summarizes it thusly: "A new computer model might reveal how sea and air currents amplify small changes in the sun's output into major swings in global climate."

Slowly, inexorably, the myth of man-made global warming is unraveling.