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Global warming: Cause and effect

The Greenhouse Effect is currently targeted as the cause of global warming. Atmospheric gases act like the windshield of a car: sunlight enters, but the heat generated by the sunlight hitting the environment remains trapped. Interior temperatures rise dramatically because more and more heat is being produced by the sunlight, while the atmosphere prevents that heat from dissipating into space during the nighttime. Global warming is therefore cyclic, and ever increasing.

Most scientific studies of global warming, as could be expected, focus their attention on measuring these "greenhouse" gases...and neglect measuring changes in the sunlight itself!

Visible sunlight contains invisible components. Beyond the low energy end of the spectrum of visible light, infrared energy accompanies sunlight across space. Infrared energy is another name for "HEAT." Earth does not get heat from the sun - infrared energy is filtered out of the sunlight by the atmosphere's density. It's the atmosphere's density that creates the greenhouse effect in the first place - it is not permeable to heat.

Ultraviolet light, the invisible component of sunlight at the HIGH energy end of the spectrum. can and does pass through Earth's atmosphere. Johan Ritter discovered ultraviolet light in 1801, by accident. He was in the process of measuring the temperature differences of the colors of the visible spectrum. A bright rainbow of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet emanated from a prism into which Ritter had directed a shaft of sunlight. Thermometers lay in each color. Each was reading a different temperature. Red light generated the least heat, while violet light was generating the most. As Ritter recorded his results in his notebook- the Earth rotated! The thermometer that had been laying in the violet light moved beyond the visible color, and into the invisible realm of the ultraviolet. Ritter was astounded to discover that, with no visible light shining on it, the temperature of the last thermometer WENT UP !

Ultraviolet light is that frequency of light which delivers the most energy to Earth.

Strangely, the Sun goes ON and OFF in ultraviolet light - every eleven (11) years! In 2003, the Sun was pumping out high levels of ultraviolet light. In 2003, the Sun was at "Solar Maximum." It was during the first years of the 21st. century that global warming was recognized as a serious problem, when the Sun was at, or near, Solar Maximum. It is the function of atmospheric OZONE to block


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