Sunspot Minimum or "Is the sun going to sleep?"

[oddjob]

I just read the same stuff as everybody else.

Warming is predominantly caused by water vapor, not SUV's and backyard BBQ's. The planet has this irritating habit of warming and cooling over time, for reasons mostly unknown. You may have heard of the ice age, it's real and thank the lucky stars we aren't in one now. We are just about on schedule to begin the next ice age. Just imagine, the NHL will expand like crazy. CO2 levels track the warming some time later, and are not the cause, at least, that's the historical record and it might not be true today. Impossible to know. All of the proposed remedies to global warming will have almost no affect on the average temperature, fractions of a degree over many decades at best. Some are using scare tactics to extract money out of your wallet, but that applies across a range of topics (warming, health care, banks, mortgages, car companies, education, terrorism, ...) and isn't new. Fusion power, if ever practical, will solve a lot of problems and ensure a bright future. As long as we get there before all the oil runs out in a few thousand years, we're good.

[Chris is me]

I know I didn't start a good precedent with this, but if we're going to argue about global warming and claim facts such as "what causes it", can we do our best to link to preferably peer reviewed s ientic journal articles on the subjects? Otherwise the debate will just turn into "I think this!" "No, but it's actually this!" "You're wrong! I know this for sure!"