Global Warming Cause Apparently, the Earth's magnetic field has decreased by 10% in the last 10 years. I'm an electrical engineer. During my studies in sub-atomic physics, I learned that a particles velocity can be effected by magnetic fields. I believe it's possible that more of the Sun's radiation is penetrating the Earth's magnetic field due to it being weaker. If more radiation hits the Earth, shouldn't that also increase the overall temperature of the Earth and can global warming be contributed to this? I've been bouncing this idea in my head for a while now and I can't see why this MAY not be true.
Your premise is true. Emissions of solar radiation due to the increased activity of solar flares in the last couple of years means more radiation will enter the Earth's surface and beyond. The likelihood that a warming here can occur more readily as a result of the solar activity becomes even more significant with the unusual number of flares that have been seen through various telescopes in recent years. It seems to have been the relative large sizes of the solar flares that has caught people's attention at JPL and elsewhere. Think about why the SPF ratings for sunblockers has gone up in the last couple of years and you will have a pretty good idea why that is. Jim
More of same. We're gobbling up the planet. If we don't learn to curtail ourselves, it will be done for us by natural agents, such as new AIDS in New York, antibiotic-resistant TB cultured in Russian prisons, droughts... Lack of cooperation is still a major stumbling block. Many do not even have basic civil rights, even now. Man who drove us home from airport recently fled African homeland 9 years ago because the government begain executing the student group he belonged to, because they had the temerity to speak out for a better way (no bombings or other terrorism, just speaking out). Of 1000 refugees in neighboring country at same time, 20 made it with him to America, where he is now a U.S. citizen. First member of family to ever leave home village, as far as they know.
I think you hit the nail on the head as to why global dimming was not the reason for so many deaths in Africa. Technically, global dimming will increase the amount of moisture in the air, not lessen it. It was a lame excuse to use the term drought for so many that have perished due to domestic unrest as well as pandemics of disease in Africa. I am still bewildered that what was required reading for us in a Biology 1AT course and was all the craze here for a few years that so few people today even know of Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb book and the significance of it, even back in the mid 70's. I agree, the central issue we have today is not global warming, not the opening and closing of the Ozone layer, not the number of times I spray a field with a pesticide, not the, I hate to write this, the politicians and attorneys but we simply have too many people which ties up natural resources that are not being replenished even remotely at the same rate as the resources that are being exhausted, some permanently I might add as in the tropical rain forests. Jim
