For years, it's been the elephant in the room (or the solar system): the 15-million-degree Fahrenheit ball of heat and light, which has been routinely ignored by global warming alarmists as a source of climate fluctuations on earth. Any scientist who dared suggest otherwise might as well have said the earth is flat. Well, unfortunately for climate change zealots, science is demanding the sun get some credit.
Author and environmentalist Lawrence Solomon writes, "Earlier this month, the link between solar activity and climate made headlines throughout Europe after space scientists ... linked the recent paucity of sunspots to the cold weather (a.k.a., "climate change") that Europe has been experiencing." According to the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy, research into sunspots "may ultimately help us predict how and when a changing sun affects Earth's climate."
Indeed, Solomon notes solar scientists are "becoming assertive" and "increasingly conveying a clear message on the chief cause of climate change: It's the Sun Stupid." Doesn't it say something about the dogma of climate change that, until recently, scientists feared pointing out that the sun is hot?
