Policy Joke of the Day

[Extra Stout]

Q: How many White House economists does it take to change a light bulb?

A: None -- look! It's getting brighter! It's getting brighter!

[SonOfAGun]

The American people will have to make sacrifices and give up some light. By doing so, they will see the world in a whole new light.

[Spursmania]

The American people understand and care about light. There is no alternative but darkness. They see the light.

[DarrinS]

The lightbulb is too big to fail.

[Wild Cobra]

Q: How many White House economists does it take to change a light bulb?

A: None -- look! It's getting brighter! It's getting brighter!
Actally, the suns been getting dimmer these last several years.

From NOAA (http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/):

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/sunspot.gif

Now consider this:

NASA predicts weak Solar Cycle 25 (http://solarscience.auditblogs.com/category/solar-cycle-25/), part of article:

What’s more disturbing to me is that NASA refuses to contemplate any changes to the Earth’s climate even though the last three times we had such a weak solar cycle, the Earth cooled (the Dalton minimum centered around 1790-1810, the Maunder Minimum from around 1645 to 1710, the Sporer Minimum centered around 1420 to 1570). Obviously these three events coinciding with global cooling are just coincidences.

Here's an interesting NASA article:

Solar trends and global warming (http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2009/2009_Benestad_Schmidt.pdf)

One of the graphs:

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/benestad-schmidt-fig2.png

[Trainwreck2100]

We would like to apologize for how bright the light has gotten and urge everyone else to install dimmers like we did

[Wild Cobra]

We would like to apologize for how bright the light has gotten and urge everyone else to install dimmers like we did
Oooops...

Dimmers don't work on compact fluorescent bulbs...

[Trainwreck2100]

baby steps