More evidence - Man Made Global warming is BS

In an article today points out something we have been saying on this blog since the beginning. Global climate change is NOT a mad made phenomenon, it is caused by variations in the suns energy output.

Sunspots are a decent proxy for the suns activity - the more sunspots, the more energy that the sun gives off. To see the latest sunspot activity (zero on Jan 1, 2009) you can click here. Ok, from the article:

• When the sun is active, it's not uncommon to see sunspot numbers of 100 or more in a single month.
  
  
• The first seven months (of 2008) averaged a sunspot count of only three and in August there were no sunspots at all — zero — something that has not occurred since 1913.
  
  
• in the past 1,000 years, three previous such events — what are called the Dalton, Maunder and Sporer Minimums — have all led to rapid cooling. One was large enough to be called the Little Ice Age (1500-1750).
  
  
• The Little Ice Age has been a problem for global warmers because it serves as a reminder of how the earth warms and cools naturally over time.
  
  
• R. Timothy Patterson, professor of geology and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre of Canada's Carleton University, says: "I and the first-class scientists I work with are consistently finding excellent correlations between the regular fluctuations of the sun and earthly climate. This is not surprising.

Not surprising that there is a correlation between the suns output and the earths temperature! Really. That's a shocker.

Folks, if you want to understand the temperature of your house in the winter, what do you do? Yah, you check the doors, windows, and insulation. But, you must not forget the FURNACE. These global warming alarmists are checking the insulation - but they ignore the FURNACE.

In their briefly popular song, the group They Might be Giants noted:

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees