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The sun is basically a giant ball of hydrogen and helium gases. In the sun's core, hydrogen atoms combine to form helium atoms. This process—called fusion—gives off radiant energy.
This radiant energy sustains life on earth. It gives us light and makes plants grow. It makes the wind blow and rain fall. It is stored as chemical energy in fossil fuels. Most of the energy we use today came from the sun's radiant energy.
Sunspots, Solar Flares, Coronal Mass Ejections and their influence on Earth: Coronal Mass Ejections (shown left) and solar flares are extremely large explosions on the photosphere. In just a few minutes, the flares heat to several million degrees F. and release as much energy as a billion megatons of TNT. They occur near sunspots, usually at the dividing line between areas of oppositely directed magnetic fields. Hot matter called plasma interacts with the magnetic field sending a burst of plasma up and away from the Sun in the form of a flare. Solar flares emit x-rays and magnetic fields which bombard the Earth as geomagnetic storms. If sunspots are active, more solar flares will result creating an increase in geomagnetic storm activity for the Earth. Therefore during sunspot maximums, the Earth will see an increase in the Northern and Southern Lights and a disruption in power grids and radio transmissions. The storms can even change polarity in satellites which can damage sophisticated electronics.
But the jury is still out on how much sunspots can (or do) affect the Earth's climate. Times of maximum sunspot activity are associated with a very slight increase in the energy output from the sun. Ultraviolet radiation increases dramatically during high sunspot activity, which can have a large effect on the Earth's atmosphere. From the mid 1600s to early 1700s, a period of very low sunspot activity (known as the Maunder Minimum) coincided with a number of long winters and severe cold temperatures in Western Europe, called the Little Ice Age. It is not known whether the two phenomena are linked or if it was just coincidence. The reason it is hard to relate maximum and minimum solar activity (sunspots) to the Earth's climate, is due to the complexity of the Earth's climate itself. For example, how does one sort out whether a long-term weather change was caused by sunspots, or maybe a coinciding El Nino or La Nina? Increased volcanic eruptions can also affect the Earth's climate by cooling the planet. And what about the burning of fossil fuels and clear cutting rain forests? One thing is more certain, sunspot cycles have been correlated in the width of tree ring growth. More study will be conducted in the future on relating sunspot activity and our Earth's climate.
Originally posted by TwiTcHomatic
reply to post by Frankidealist35
So in the same post you say they are not "telling you the full truth"....
Then, to try to back up your statements, you link to what NASA tells you.. not helping your case much there.
Its either A. they are being truthful or B. they are not being truthful.
You have to stick to a side there friend.
Originally posted by Frankidealist35
reply to post by Unmask The Deception
NASA and the environmental agency are both two very honest agencies. It's at the top are the people who are the liars. I figure I can link to the source material they have on their websites if it's common knowledge and I just wanted the most comprehensible link I could find so I just linked to that.
Originally posted by watcher1960
What is the deal with some people on here and NASA. I'm not huge on the government, but NASA is one of the few agencies that's actually accomplished things and paid back (in technology and subsequent economic benefits) more than was ever invested in it. Not everything is a conspiracy.
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Pierre-Marie Robitaille is a radiologists who spent $125,000 to take out a full-page ad in the Sunday New York Times arguing for his peculiar theories of the universe which he claims peer reviewed journals will not touch because his ideas “are simply too opposed to current thought.”