Sun's fickle heart may leave us cold^c 25. January 2007 There's a dimmer switch inside the sun that causes its brightness to rise and fall on timescales of around 100,000 years - exactly the same period as between ice ages on Earth. So says a physicist who has created a computer model of our star's core. ... (Most scientists believe that the ice ages are the result of subtle changes in Earth's orbit, known as the Milankovitch cycles. One such cycle describes the way Earth's orbit gradually changes shape from a circle to a slight ellipse and back again roughly every 100,000 years. The theory says this alters the amount of solar radiation that Earth receives, triggering the ice ages. However, a persistent problem with this theory has been its inability to explain why the ice ages changed frequency a million years ago.)

Lightning balls created in the lab 10. January 2007

Global warming:
• Why Politicized Science is Dangerous (by Michael Crichton)
• Politicians sign new climate pact 16. February 2007
• Warming 'very likely' human-made 2. February 2007
• Hawking warns: We must recognise the catastrophic dangers of climate change 18. January 2007
• Collapse of civilisations linked to monsoon changes 4. January 2007 Harsh winters and dry summers may have contributed to decline of the Chinese Tang dynasty and the South American Maya.
• Cows, pigs and sheep: Environment's greatest threats? 12. December 2006
• Cow 'emissions' more damaging to planet than CO2 from cars 10. December 2006
• Greenland melt 'speeding up' 11. August 2006
• BBC links to huge climate project 14. February 2006
• Ancient humans 'altered' climate 8. September 2005
• Katrina's real name ... global warming. 30. August 2005 ... Good. Just some ideas.. We should not forget that articles like this create good feeling, because they say what we want to hear. The author also makes money on this - by writing books on the topic etc. The first part of the article is like brainwashing - shocking images and their attachment to "global warming". No good.. this is misleading -- one could do a similar list of catastrophes or unusual weather conditions from before. See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notable_tropical_cyclones -- there are terrible disasters that happened well before the oil age. I also know the fossil fuel is not good for the environ and should be cut. But such exaggerated claims are no use as they give the weapon to the opponents. The second part of the article, about the fossil fuel industry financing fraud in science etc makes a better claim, I think. TF^e
• Icy Greenland turns green 14. August 2005
• Measuring the reality of climate change 21. May 2005
• Greenland's ice cap under threat 7. April 2004

Katrina
• Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush 2. September 2005
• Crackdown in fearful New Orleans 2. September 2005
• 'Desperate SOS' for New Orleans 1. September 2005
• Satellites peer into eye of storm 30. August 2005
• New Orleans pounded by hurricane 29. August 2005

Winds
• Northern Europe swept by storms 19. January 2006
• Model predicts hurricane activity 21. April 2005

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