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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 17-Jun-2009 At 10:44:08 AM anthonyk

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On 17/06/2009 evanbb wrote:
>Also heard today a fairly reasonable cause of the 'Global Cooling' since
>1998. Apparently aerosol/particulate emissions from India and China have
>been rising fast enough to mask the heat capturing effects of increased
>GHGases. This raises the problem that if they ever clean up their pollution
>(the Asian Brown Cloud) things could change pretty quickly. Some good rain
>might do some damage as well.

note that between 2001-now we have been in a period of decreasing sunspot activity and are now at solar minimum, which is also tied to reduced solar radiation. so some part of any reduced temperature in this period would have been from being on the tail end of the cycle, but its overdue to increase so there'll be an increase in solar energy over the next 5 (3?) years of the 11 year cycle.

the 11 year cycle is well known and established, you have to assume the overall trend in temperatures is higher than what we've been seeing from the cyclical reduction over the last 8 years.