The effect of solar radiation on global warming.

[cliffie47]

Global warming seems to me to be an excuse to tax the poor motorist. I think it is due to an increase in Solar Radiation. Is there any data on Solar radiation? is it measued each year? Is it the major contributor to global warming? fanx Cliff

[bernardo]

There is no significant increase in solar radiation.  The main cause of global warming is greenhouse gases.

[incitatus]

in fact solar radiation has decreased in the last century by about 2 %

[Thunderchild]

he seems to have missed the point of global warming:

the problem is not the creation of heat but the release of gases called greenhouse gases that prevent heat from excaping from the earth. they do just what a green house does reflect the heat back and so we just get hotter and hotter (btw that make the icecaps melt and so one day there will be a lot less land to live on if u see my point)