[Sparky]

Thursday 12 July 2007
A team of Swiss and British scientists has concluded that the rise in global temperatures over the past 20 years is not due to the sun heating up.
The research shows that the sun's output has declined and yet the temperatures on earth have gone up.

Claus Froelich, from The World Radiation Centre in Switzerland, says that cosmic rays from the sun may have affected the earths climate in the past, but not now.

Some scientists who are sceptical about man's influence on global warming have sited the sun heating up the earth as a possible reason for the increase in temperatures. Since 1990 the average temperature has risen 0.8 celcius and the sea by 10.20cm.

The overall consensus from the scientific community now appears to be that human activity is to blame for the rise in global temperature.

[micheal]

Well of course human activity is to blame for Global warming. Industrialization of the majority of the world has to have caused it, this is common sense.

[Gilipsie]

You have a pretty good point, Micheal, a pollution map shows strongest areas of pollution near the areas of higher industrialization.