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Originally Posted by Bill8
BTW, this original source article, the one from NASA, is now out of date, it looks to be based on satellite observations from 2004 to 2006, and at least one new satelite was launched to study planetary insolation and solar radience, so we shoudl be looking for the newest inforamtion and conclusions.
Thats important when assessing science information. You have to know the provenance of the information, WHERE it comes from and who's authority it has, and you also need to be aware of the date of the information, because science changes over time, thats the nature of how the scientific method works.
I looked at the NASA website for a copy of the article on which this was based but have not found it yet.
Oddly, from teh clues I have gotten in that search, it does not look like the source article was actually a scientific report, nor a peer reviewed paper. It's source author, Rani Gran, is a nasa public relations specialist.
So, based on what I have seen so far, both the science daily and daily tech articles are based on a PR report, not on anything we would call climate science, and definitely not anything peer reviewed.
This is why you must NEVER TRUST THE MEDIA!
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The original nasa article
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsyst...riability.html
ANother even years older
March 20, 2003 - (date of web publication)
NASA STUDY FINDS INCREASING SOLAR TREND THAT CAN CHANGE CLIMATE
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/...rradiance.html
More recent activity?
Solar Climate Change: NASA reports of extraordinary solar flare, warns of communication disturbance: Updated with Media Links
Wednesday, June 8th 2011, 5:09 AM EDT
http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=7817
Solar irradiance
It's reasonable to assume that changes in the sun's energy output would cause the climate to change, since the sun is the fundamental source of energy that drives our climate system.
http://climate.nasa.gov/causes/
Another referring to the article you shot down
Research scientists at the University of Alabama (UA) in Huntsville, USA, have suggested that global warming is not occuring at the rapid rate shown by model-based forecasts.
Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist in the UA’s Earth System Science Center , and his colleague Dr. Danny Braswell claim data from NASA’s Terra satellite shows that when the climate warms, Earth’s atmosphere is apparently more efficient at releasing energy to space than models used to forecast climate change have been programmed to “believe.”
http://www.irishweatheronline.com/ne...comment-page-1
Solar Cycle Prediction
(Updated 2011/07/01)
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml