global warming...

I'm generally interested in what's happening out there, in space. I became introduced to astronomy by my grand uncle Christian when I was about 10 year old, looking through a telescope at the moon... That was it.

Since then, I've spent countless nights looking at stars and photographing them and reading about space, cosmology, birth of the universe, astrophysics, etc etc. I'm also fascinated with space exploration.

I'm also very aware of my impact on the world I live in and global warming. But I somehow never connected the 2.

A few days ago, I came across this post on spaceweather.com that suggest that in the last 8 years, the global warming has been compensated by natural phenomenons such as the solar minimum, El nino and volcanism.

And tonight I was told that human influence on global warming is of the order of 1%. In fact, global warming is happening on others planets such as Mars, Jupiter.

Being curious in nature, and not taking any as the absolute truth, I want to start tracking all things I can find about the influence of natural phenomenons on Global warming. This with the goal of plotting all the data to see if any pattern comes out.

So here are a few interesting articles. The natural phenomenoms to be considered are:
-solar irradience
-planet orbit
-planet wobling (precession of equinoxes)
-planet magnetic field position and strength
-position of the sun in the galactic plane


http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2007/01/22/inconvenient_facts_about_climate_change_global_warming.htm

http://thecriticalthinker.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/climate-change-felt-on-other-planets/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1206_041206_global_warming.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1720024.ece

http://www.spaceweather.com/