Are there other solar effects on the global climate?
I’m writing the Skeptical Science advanced rebuttal to "it’s the Sun". So far I’ve covered the Sun’s impact on the Earth’s climate via solar irradiance (TSI) and galactic cosmic rays. Are there any other plausible and credible mechanisms by which the Sun could be impacting the global climate that the rebuttal should cover?
Read MoreHow would you personally like to see the issue of climate change being addressed?
If you were to be tasked with implementing a package of measures designed to address the issue of climate change, what procedures would you put in place?
Perhaps you would consider strategies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, or maybe you consider that such measures are unnecessary or would be ineffective.
Would you like to see strategies adopted that would attempt to intervene with the mechanisms leading to climate change, such as the physical extraction of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere or the implementation of schemes designed to reduce the amount of heat being received from the Sun.
Read MoreHow does energy work under the dark or the rain if the house is solar powered?
Solar powers work under the sun, right?
Read MoreDoes a solar panel get more energy on hotter or brighter days?
I was just thinking about it. A solar panel cannot get energy from sunlight at night because there is MUCH less light. If there is an overcast, the same concept should apply. If the sun appears to be shining brighter than usual, would the panel be able to receive more energy?
Read MoreWhat do you think the climate effects from one nuclear bomb would be?
Encarta has a report from a team of sicentists.
Besides the blast and radiation damage from individual bombs, a large-scale nuclear exchange between nations could conceivably have a catastrophic global effect on climate. This possibility, proposed in a paper published by an international group of scientists in December 1983, has come to be known as the “nuclear winter” theory. According to these scientists, the explosion of not even one-half of the combined number of warheads in the United States and Russia would throw enormous quantities of dust and smoke into the atmosphere. The amount could be sufficient to block off sunlight for several months, particularly in the northern hemisphere, destroying plant life and creating a subfreezing climate until the dust dispersed. The ozone layer might also be affected, permitting further damage as a result of the sun’s ultraviolet radiation. Were the results sufficiently prolonged, they could spell the virtual end of human civilization.