May 16, 2007
AL GORE'S EXCELLENT POSIEDON ADVENTURE (via Gene Brown):
Changes on Neptune Link Sun and Global Warming (NewsMax, 5/16/07)
Skeptics of manmade global warming have found further support in research linking solar output with the planet Neptune’s brightness and temperatures on Earth.The findings appeared in a recent issue of Geophysical Research Letters. The authors of the article, H.B. Hammel and G.W. Lockwood from the Space Science Institute in Colorado and the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, note that measurements of visible light from Neptune have been taken at the Observatory since 1950.
Those measurements indicate that Neptune has been getting brighter since around 1980. And infrared measurements of the planet since 1980 show that Neptune has been warming steadily as well.
If only Antonin Scalia hadn't fixed the 2000 election, Neptune today would be as cold as Jerry Falwell's heart. Posted by Orrin Judd at May 16, 2007 5:28 PM
When the lines are charted on a graph, the statistical correlation between Neptune's increasing brightness and the Earth's increasing temperature is 0.9. That level is as certain as anything can be in statistics.
Posted by: Gideon at May 17, 2007 2:00 PM