Jay Kersting's Blog

It has now happened to me three times.  This is the most unbelievable thing...and it has happened to me three times in recent weeks.

Now, I will not name names on this, I will simply tell you what has happened.  And if you want to debate me on this, please THINK first.

I have now, in recent weeks, on THREE separate occasions, had somebody argue this statement with me.

"The single largest cause of global warming, without argument, is and always has been the Sun."

Apparently, I was wrong about the without argument part.

However, one who chooses to argue this statement with me shows me one of three things.  First, this person is stupid.  Second, is a zealot who had drank the Kool-Aid provided by Albert Arnold Gore, Junior.  Or third, this person did not comprehend the statement.

I am hoping that in all three cases, it was the option behind door number three.  If it is not, then I am very concerned over the education system in this country, NO, the world.

OK, I am not an astrophysicist, nor do I pretend to be.  But this much I know to be a fact, if the Sun burned out right now, we would be lights out in eight minutes.  Dark.  Nothing.  Zip.  Zero.  Zilch.  Now, I could not tell you how long it would take, but I think the Earth would cool rather quickly.  I have a flashlight and a couple of coats, but something tells me this might not be enough.

Some people believe that Earth would lose its orbit, but I think that is if the Sun blows up not just burning out.  Again, I am not an astrophysicist, so I do not know.

Look at Mars.  Remember the Martian icecaps that we used to see in photographs of Mars?  And how we no longer see them?  A geology professor told me that the rate of warming on Mars is consistant with that on Earth. So this means one of two things.

First, the biggest source of global climate change on Mars is the same as on Earth, the Sun. 

Or Second, the Viking I and Viking II landers had terrible emissions and have ruined the environment on Mars.

I know what you are thinking. 

NASA should have used unleaded fuel and catalytic converters on Viking I and Viking II.

I agree.