New Hope for Global Warming Deniers

There are some of us, and we are few, who reflexively recoil from the latest liberal enthusiasm.

(And why is it that every liberal enthusiasm involves a dip into your pocketbook?)

So we grab at hopes that the liberals are wrong—again.

Last week there was a straw to grasp for us global warming deniers. A couple of astsro-physicists published a paper on sunspots and the solar cycle.

As reported by Andrew Bolt the phsysicts are predicting that the sun may turn quiet with very few sunspots in the next 20-30 years. Some scientists believe that global temperatures typically dip by 1 to 2 degrees during these episodes.

The theory is that the convection currents in the sun are driven by the rotation of the Jovian planets, Jupiter and Saturn. They represent the biggest mass in the solar system after the Sun, and cause the sun to “wobble” around the center of the Solar System.

If this is true, and if Cycle 24 is really a quiet cycle, and if the climate cools by one or two degrees... Well, it could dent the current global warming “consensus.”

Author Ian Wilson comments on his paper.

It supports the contention that the level of activity on the Sun will significantly diminish sometime in the next decade and remain low for about 20 - 30 years. On each occasion that the Sun has done this in the past the World’s mean temperature has dropped by ~ 1 - 2 C.

Well, it means new hope for global warming deniers.

But go ahead, AlGore. You can crank up the thermostat in your energy-guzzling house if things get a little chilly. We won’t mind.