Thursday, April 19, 2018

A Wintry Spring

Drudge Report links tonight to headlines from the Chicago Tribune and the Detroit News. The former says Chicago has had the coldest April in 130 years, the latter says Detroit is having the coldest April in 143 years.

I can see an argument for this being climate change, it is much harder to argue it is caused by global warming. Maybe it is global cooling? Sunspot activity continues to be nearly nonexistent.

Our sun is a continuous thermonuclear explosion kept from splattering its matter across the galaxy by its enormous gravitational pull. Our small share of the radiant energy escaping the solar gravity well is so vast as to make the collective activities of all humans pale into something approaching insignificance.

Quite small variations in solar radiation can have large effects here on Sol III. They are the likely culprits for climate change, when it occurs.