³ And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. ⁴ God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. ⁵ God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

Earth was rotating; day and night in that Biblical passage from Genesis. Recognizing that is recognizing science. Measurement of day and night has long been held as a vital aspect of understanding Earth and the lives we live. Some of the most interesting scientific investigations were made by Benjamin Franklin. He monitored day and night, along with tides and the length of travel of ships. Cargo ships, merchant ships and passenger ships.

The sun, our sun, is named Sol. The sun is hot. But the heat of the sun does not reach Earth. Imagine if it did. Sol is 92,960,000 miles (149,600,000 km) from Earth.

Earth is a very small spot in the universe, nearly invible, a little larger when one considers the solar system, but, Earth in no way catches every bit of solar emission

Observations of the Sun between 1996 and 2001 showed that emission of the slow solar wind occurred between latitudes of 30–35° around the equator of the Sun, which would put Earth in the path of those emissions, during the solar minimum (the period of lowest solar activity). But, the area of solar emissions then expanded toward the poles of the Sun as the minimum waned. By the time of the solar maximum occurred, the poles were also emitting a slow solar wind.

There is just no way the entire of Sol ever reaches Earth and that is especially true during a Solar Maximum when Sun Spots are more frequent.

The sun does not generate the warmth of Earth. Infrared Wavelength is what heats Earth. Earth generates the Infrared Wavelength, the Sun does not. Infrared have very specific wavelengths, frequency and energy levels. No other wavelength in the solar system has those specific measurements. 

Infrared is 700 nm to 1 mm, the Frequency is 430 Thz - 300 GHz and the Photon Energy is 1.24 meV to 1.7 eV. 

Sol supplies what is considered "Irrandiance." It is electromagnetic radiation. Sol supplies two types of electromagnetic waves, one is visual light, extreme ultraviolet and X-ray. Of all that electromagnetic spectrum emitted from Sol, very little makes it's way to Earth and what does is filtered by Earth's atmosphere.

July 22, 2009

...Some skeptics of human-induced climate change (click here) blame global warming on natural variations in the sun’s output due to sunspots and/or solar wind. They say it’s no coincidence that an increase in sunspot activity and a run-up of global temperatures on Earth are happening concurrently, and view regulation of carbon emissions as folly with negative ramifications for our economy and tried-and-true energy infrastructure. 

“[V]ariations in solar energy output have far more effect on Earth’s climate than soccer moms driving SUVs,” Southwestern Law School professor Joerg Knipprath, writes in his ‘Token Conservative’ blog. “A rational thinker would understand that, especially if he or she has some understanding of the limits of human influence. But the global warming boosters have this unbounded hubris that it is humans who control nature, and that human activity can terminally despoil the planet as well as cause its salvation.”

Many climate scientists agree that sunspots and solar wind could be playing a role in climate change, but the vast majority view it as very minimal and attribute Earth’s warming primarily to emissions from industrial activity—and they have thousands of peer-reviewed studies available to back up that claim.

Peter Foukal of the Massachusetts-based firm Heliophysics, Inc., who has tracked sunspot intensities from different spots around the globe dating back four centuries, also concludes that such solar disturbances have little or no impact on global warming. Nevertheless, he adds, most up-to-date climate models—including those used by the United Nations’ prestigious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—incorporate the effects of the sun’s variable degree of brightness in their overall calculations....