Hi Michel, Thank you for your advice, but save your ignorance for someone else. "Black hole" is a "physics term," too, but it is the wrong term for discussing the Sun's output. Do a Google search for -"solar irradiance" "earth radiance"- to see how real physicists use the terms.
Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: Michel Jullian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 4:38 PM > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re:[VO]: Fw:{Bob Parks...Feb.2 > > > It's irradiance, not radiance. > > Radiance is a physics term David, don't apologize you couldn't possibly > know. > > Michel > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Thomson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 11:14 PM > Subject: RE: [Vo]: Re:[VO]: Fw:{Bob Parks...Feb.2 > > > > Hi Robin, > > > >> An increase in Solar radiance may very well be partially to blame, > > > > It's irradiance, not radiance. > > > >> however I fail to see what that has to do with sun spots. Furthermore > sun > >> spots follow an approximately 11-12 year cycle, and I don't see global > >> warming doing the same. > > > > You would have to look further than a single 11 year cycle. Sunspots > ceased > > to exist for about 100 years around the 1500s. The intensity of the > cycles > > have been increasing in the last 50 years or so. Similarly, global > warming > > has been taking place for the past 10,000 years, although the alarmists > are > > particularly concerned about the past 150 years, not the past 11 years. > > > > Dave > >