Introducing Cosmic Warming
We live in a time of radical climate change, few people will deny that today, even the scientists working for the big oil lobby. It is a matter of both scientific finding and of course, common sense that it is caused by humankinds output of Carbon Dioxide through the burning of fossil fuels.
Well, isn’t it?
Well some would beg to differ. Recently a program aired in Europe called ‘The Great Global Warming Conspiracy’. In this program the climatic graphs popularised by former president Al Gore in his film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, were looked at again with a more sceptical eye, clearly they show a link between Co2 and global temperature increase, however it was observable that the warming began before the steep increase in our Co2 output. Co2 has merely continued to track the warming trend, which is not so shocking when you realise that warming climate leads to more Co2 being released into the atmosphere from several natural sources. We also see less being absorbed into natural syncs with-in the biosphere. For example a warm ocean will absorb and hold far less of this chemical than a cool one, much the way that a warm fizzy drink loses its fizz.
In addition, vast deposits of methane held in cold storage at the ocean floor begin to be released; methane is far more effective at trapping solar heat in our atmosphere than Co2. Methane in large quantities is a very worrying gas to add to the greenhouse effect models. Similar to this change in the ocean is the ongoing process of melting Siberian tundra, these vast wastes of permafrost have begun to melt. This region is known to be the largest land based store of methane held in stasis on the planet, its release is certainly catastrophic.
So if it is possible that rapid warming predated our contribution to increased global greenhouse effect then we must ask what initiated it?
Only one known source of energy in our solar system is able to cause such a rapid change of our environment, our own star, Sol, the sun.
There is now no doubt that the sun has increased its output of radiation significantly, and its behaviour has become more erratic of late. Even conservative NASA has spoken about an extremely stormy solar maximum in 2012, following an already rocky maximum in 2001; by this, we mean extreme solar storms and solar flares. However this change in the sun, which has been building up for centuries, is best proved not by looking at either the earth or the Sun. Simply put, that just leaves two camps of scientists banging their heads together. It is actually far more poignant to look off world to understand global warming. This is because here we discover something new, Cosmic Warming.
There are nine planets in our solar system (I am old fashioned so will give Pluto a break) and we will take a little tour of each of them.
Mercury, we must wait and see as no data yet. Today [09/01/08] the craft Messenger arrived on location to begin probing and photographing this planet. What has changed in the last 30 years since a visit may be very revealing.
Venus A bizarre double vortex whirls in the atmosphere above Venus's south pole, it is not clear what causes the "double eye" pattern. Previous missions to Venus have spotted a similar structure over its north pole and glimpsed stormy atmospheric behaviour at the south pole. But the double vortex has never before been seen at the south pole.
Earth is of course experiencing both global warming and a rapid change in its climate generally. Few now dispute that we are seeing a rapid alteration of our biosphere alongside climatic catastrophes.
Mars certainly has global warming with melting of its ice caps and some evidence of increased violent dust storms.
Jupiter has developed new storm activity. The infamous baleful red eye, the largest storm in the solar system, has now been added to by the development of a second giant super-storm. Also an amazing feature has manifested, a huge glowing hexagon!
Saturn has an amazing phenomenon just recently revealed; a hot storm has been discovered at its pole. This pole is firmly deep in the winter period. There is no explanation for the source of its energy as yet.
Uranus has shown unexpected temporal variations, there is brightening that is not expected in our classical models for the planets environment.
Neptune is another one where we have to wait and watch, evidence highly indicative of induced climate change is coming out at this time. At this distance we must be sceptical that the Sun is causing this and be open to looking at a further unknown source of energy.
Pluto has shown a massive increase in its atmospheric pressure, another sign of increased energy in the cosmic system. Once again its distance from the Sun raises questions.
Its worth stating that many of the planets have moons with rapid unexplained climate change occurring, such as Triton and Enceladus.
Not suprisingly a debate has begun on whether this is all coincidence, or whether we need to look for a common cause in our cosmos. Many people feel that its simply to big to be a coincidence, that so many bodies would show changes in climate and environment at the same time as the Earth.
The next question is of course just what could be perturbing our sun in such a way as to cause some of these changes?
We know that the Sun does have cycles of variance, but seemingly, in the last few decades this variance has rapidly increased at an unprecedented rate. In addition, some of the climate change on planets in our solar system seemingly could not be easily linked to the suns radiation change. There are theories on just what is behind this change, theories we will come to examine in detail.
One thing that must be said is that manmade Co2 emission does cause the Greenhouse effect, it does trap the energy of the Sun. There is no debate as to whether we need to reduce our part of this process. Global Warming may be lead by the Sun, or another unseen phenomona, but it is certainly exacerbated by man.
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