I've read about solar activity cycles being correlated with global ave. temps before, with a low in the 17th century (called the little ice age) - this article talks about this.
I'll be talking more about global warming (or the lack of it) in a future post.
Last December, Dr David Whitehouse noted that the apex of solar activity at the end of last century corresponded with the period's unusually high temperatures, and that temps have been flat since activity abated. He suggested we were entering a new solar cycle which would begin a period of global cooling. The Sun expert reminded readers that a similar sunspot holiday in the 17th Century (The Maunder Minimum) corresponded with the coldest and most damaging temperatures of that millennium (The Little Ice Age).
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Definitely a better article than the last one I read posted by you from the American Thinker. Sheppard makes some valid points. (I'm not quite sure, though, why he capitalised "Sun" in his Whitehouse quotation - it looks like he is quoting from "The Sun", Britain's most notorious tabloid, and I'm sure that's not what he meant...)
I have always thought that the "global-warmingists" have been quite naive in their analysis of the present situation: accurate meteorological records only go back a couple of hundred years or so, so determining long-term climate cycles of, for example, global warming or cooling is a very dubious science. I like Sheppard's sum-up:
"It betrays a lack of reason so profound, it is exceeded only by the choice to attempt controlling global climate rather than adapting to its unwavering and inevitable flux."
We humans are, if anything, experts at adapting to local environments, so why not exploit our talents?? It brings to mind an interesting quotation by George Bernard Shaw: The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
For an interesting variation on the theme, replace "progress" by "environmental change"...
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