Why are they calling it "climate change?"  Is it so they can incorporate anything into their dogma and rebuke any dissenter?

Is it even be possible that changes in anything could have a greater impact on the climate than than the sun's output? 

I'd be willing to bet that a 50% increase in atmospheric CO2 would have less of an impact on climate than One Tenth of one percent of a change in the sun's output.

The following article is by Denis Avery. 

Two weeks ago from Germany's Max Planck Institute. Ilya Usoskin of the Planck Institute says the sun is now more active than it's been for 1000 years based on direct measurements of beryllium10 in polar ice cores that go back thousands of years. (Less beryllium 10 in the ice core means a more active sun, and the ice core samples show a lower concentration than in the last millennium.)

Usoskin's research adds weight to the theory that the Earth's Modern Warming—since 1850—is produced by the sun's increased magnetic activity.

History is on the side of the German researcher. History confirms that Earth had a Roman Warming about 2000 years ago, followed by the cold Dark Ages, a Medieval Warming about 1000 years ago, and then a Little Ice Age that ended about 150 years ago.

The physical evidence is also favors the German research. Over the last 20 years, ice cores retrieved from Greenland and the Antarctic, seabed sediments in four oceans, and tree rings and cave stalagmites around the world have shown us a long natural, moderate global warming/cooling cycle. The Earth warms 2 degrees C or so for 500-800 years, and then cools about the same amount for about the same length of time.

We used to think there was a "solar constant," but recent satellite measurements of the sun show moderate changes in its irradiance.

Scripps has only a computer model and a set of ocean temperatures going back about 60 years.

Also last week:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070705191403.gahmdtoi&show_article=1

"Oldest DNA ever recovered shows warmer planet"

  Scientists who probed two kilometers (1.2 miles) through a Greenland glacier to recover the oldest plant DNA on record said Thursday the planet was far warmer hundreds of thousands of years ago than is generally believed.
DNA of trees, plants and insects including butterflies and spiders from beneath the southern Greenland glacier was estimated to date to 450,000 to 900,000 years ago, according to the remnants retrieved from this long-vanished boreal forest.

That contrasts sharply with the prevailing view that a lush forest of this kind could only have existed in Greenland as recently as 2.4 million years ago, according to a summary of the study, which is published Thursday in the journal Science.

The samples suggest the temperature probably reached 10 degrees C (50 degrees Fahrenheit) in the summer and -17 C (1 F) in the winter.

They also indicated that during the last period between ice ages, 116,000-130,000 years ago, when temperatures were on average 5 C (9 F) higher than now, the glaciers on Greenland did not completely melt away.

"These findings allow us to make a more accurate environmental reconstruction of the time period from which these samples were taken," said Martin Sharp, a glaciologist at the University of Alberta, Canada, and a co-author of the paper.

"What we've learned is that this part of the world was significantly warmer than most people thought."

In a separate paper, also published in Science, European experts said they had analysed the world's deepest ice core, enabling them to reconstruct patterns of warming and glaciation over the past 800,000 years.

The 3,260-metre (10,595-feet) core was drilled into the East Antarctica icesheet at the Franco-Italian base, Dome C. The drillers, gathered in a venture called the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) stopped just 15 metres (48.75 feet) short of the bedrock.

Using traces of the hydrogen isotope deuterium in air bubbles trapped in the ice layers, the scientists built a record of greenhouse-gas concentrations over the aeons, which in turn provides a record of temperature.

They found the temperature varied widely, by as much as 15 C (27 F) over the 800,000 years. In the last Ice Age, which ended around 11,000 years ago, the temperature was 10 C (18 F) lower than today.

The EPICA team had previously analysed the Dome C core to a depth equivalent to 650,000 years ago.

These are published scientific papers, using hard data and measurements.

NOT COMPUTER MODELS.

Cheers

Don't they know that the Sun is absolutely not responsible for earth's temperature! It's completly irrelevant! It's all the C02 in the atmosphere. We are awash in C02. We are starting to gag on it. Any day now, all the CO2 detectors that FirstAlert has sold are all going to go off.

We will have to work on a massive machine that takes in C02 and converts it to something like, oh, maybe oxygen. Yeah. Thats it. O2! Just strip off the C and throw it in the sink.