Global warming and solar actvities

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Hi,
I am new here, and I have a question about the Global warming.
do you think the global warming is caused mostly by pollution or solar activities of our sun ?!

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-Amir
 
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Controversial issue this. Ask the IPCC they will say absolutely not, solar activity only plays a very minor role compared to CO2. I've always thought that the variation in the suns output must play a more significant role than they are letting on, as the sun is the only mechanism that heats up the Earth in the first place. And there has been a few observations of global warming on other planets in the solar system that i have collected before, as they seemed an interesting observation;

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/pluto_warming_021009.html
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060504_red_jr.html
http://www.tmgnow.com/repository/solar/lassen1.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/19980526052143data_trunc_sys.shtml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...18.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/07/18/ixnewstop.html
http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/092897/study.htm
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/3434This is however holtly disputed, most people think that it is purely due to human activity. I'm still undecided.
 
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This is still in doubt. In the Little Ice Age, the Sun was in tired condition then the Earth was very cold at the time.