Anthony Watts: Quotes about the sun

“If both Mars and Earth are experiencing global warming, then maybe there is a larger phenomenon going on in the Solar System that is causing their global climates to change, like changes in the Sun.”

Anthony Watts

Global Warming on Mars? http://wattsupwiththat.com/2006/12/20/global-warming-on-mars/, wattsupwiththat.com, December 20, 2006.
2006

Change , Sun

“James Carville used to remind Clinton during the '92 campaign that "its the economy, stupid". I say that on the subject of Global Warming: "its the SUN, stupid".”

Anthony Watts

It's the Sun, stupid http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/04/06/its-the-sun-stupid/, wattsupwiththat.com, April 6, 2007.
2007

Stupidity , Sun

“I'm betting on the sun's increased activity in the last century, and that CO2 doesn't matter much because its effect is overwhelmed by everything else in our atmosphere that also acts as a greenhouse gas, mostly water vapor.”

Anthony Watts

The Chico Beat http://www.norcalblogs.com/bullfight/2006/08/05/new-newspaper/, norcalblogs.com, August 5, 2006.
2006

Water , Sun

“Our earth is warmed by a gigantic nuclear fireball, millions of times the mass of earth and a mere 8.5 light-minutes away. One hundred and nine Earths would be required to fit across the Sun's disk, and its interior could hold over 1.3 million Earths. … You can't just ignore that kind of power. Though it seems some prefer to, since it muddles the results they seek.”

Anthony Watts

It's the Sun, stupid http://www.norcalblogs.com/watts/2007/04/post_3.html, wattsupwiththat.com, April 6, 2007.
2007

Light , Time , Sun

“The sun is still the number 1 factor in our energy balance. No matter how much people argue about CO2, they can't successfully explain the pre industrial revolution 900-1300AD Medieval Warming Period or the cold 1645-1715 AD Maunder Sunspot Minimum that coincided with European crop failure, famine and disease while linking it with our modern day issues with CO2 to climate change. Yet sunspots and solar cycles can and do explain both.”

Anthony Watts

Anthropogenic Warming? http://web.archive.org/web/20070304183056/http://www.norcalblogs.com/post_scripts/archives/2006/10/anthropogenic_w_1.html#comments, norcalblogs.com, 22 October, 2006.
2006

People , Disease , Failure , Change

“It's all about the sun. Just take a look at the picture above and notice just how small earth is compared to the sun, or even a large solar flare. Anybody whom thinks the human race has more effect on our global energy balance than an active sun does is just deluding themselves.”

Anthony Watts

Scientists Predict Large Solar Cycle Coming http://wattsupwiththat.com/2006/12/23/scientists-predict-large-solar-cycle-coming/, wattsupwiththat.com, December 23, 2006.
2006

Thinking , Sun

“[T]he folks who would have you believe that our climate is driven by increasing CO2 and nothing else, will continue to ignore the sun, as it serves their agenda to do so.”

Anthony Watts

The Sun has a dimmer switch? http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/02/06/the-sun-has-a-dimmer-switch/, wattsupwiththat.com, February 6, 2007.
2007

Sun

“The emphasis this week seems to be on the sun, and the fact that maybe its really the sun which has been driving climate change after all. That's what I've been saying for years, because its just unrealistic to ignore the largest and single most important contributor to our planets energy balance and to only focus on made-made CO2 and nothing else.”

Anthony Watts

This week in Global Warming http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/03/24/this-week-in-global-warming/, wattsupwiththat.com, March 24, 2007.
2007

Change , Sun

“I'm comfortable with my position because I see clear evidence that climate change is driven mainly by the sun.”

Anthony Watts

I'm comfortable with my position, Chico Enterprise-Record, August 10, 2006.
2006

Change , Sun

“I've been saying this all along… the sun is the Big Kahuna of climate change on earth.”

Anthony Watts

1500 year solar cycle shows climate impacts http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/01/19/1500-year-solar-cycle-shows-climate-impacts/, wattsupwiththat.com, January 19, 2007.
2007

Change , Sun

“To me, the fact that the suns magnetic field is linked more closely to earth now lends credence to theories like that of Henrik Svensmark, which points to an extraterrestrial driver of climate change, cosmic rays which form cloud nuclei in our atmosphere, modulated by solar variance.”

Anthony Watts

From AGU – the cause of Aurora Borealis and TSI questions http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/12/15/from-agu-confirming-the-cause-of-aurora-borealis/, wattsupwiththat.com, December 15, 2007.
2007

Change , Sun

“As I've always said, the sun is the "Big Kahuna" of climate change on Earth. Everything else is secondary, even though man's opinion of his own self importance in the scheme of things often dictates otherwise.”

Anthony Watts

The Sun has a dimmer switch? http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/02/06/the-sun-has-a-dimmer-switch/, wattsupwiththat.com, February 6, 2007.
2007

Change , Sun