I apologize if this idea was in the aforementioned link, but my browse wouldn’t open it.
Size matters when you’re talking about planetary climactic trends. I know the largest of all is God, but something inclines me to believe that our Creator isn’t playing around with something as puny as Earth’s climate. On the other end of the scale in the universe, how clever microbes are notwithstanding, might be us humans. There are two things between those extremes that actually do influence global climate. You hear a lot of hype about “greenhouse” gases yet how often do you see the statistics of the enormous amounts of them that are emitted daily by our planet’s continual volcanic activity? Yeah, volcanoes are bigger than us, but our closest star, the sun, is much bigger and it influences the entire solar system! There are something bigger yet, cosmic rays. Interaction of cosmic rays with a planet’s atmosphere, such as ours, induces cloud formation, which are sort of blankets to preserve climactic heat. Isn’t it interesting how the sun follows a rhythmic cycle that coincides precisely with archeological findings of warming trends to land nowadays on one? The science is in; today we are experiencing a solar minimum which means there aren’t enough flairs and winds to stave off the cosmic rays and so all the planets of the system are experiencing increasing climactic temperatures.
Then again, wouldn’t it be invigorating to know that firing up your lawnmower has authority over Jupiter’s moon’s global climate?
