We knew things were going to heat up when President Bush refused to take the advice of Al Gore and Osama bin Laden and sign the Koyto Global Warming Treaty. Now the entire solar system must pay the price Bush’s rash act?

Headline Earthfiles: Is the Sun Heating Up?

November 18, 2005 Cambridge, Massachusetts - Astrophysicists are scratching their heads about what’s happening on the sun and in our solar system. Why has this so-called “Solar Minimum” been so active? It should be quiet now with very few sunspots because this is supposed to be the low point of the Sun’s 11-year-sunspot cycle. But this week, there was a sunspot called 822 that’s 87,000 miles across - the size of the planet Jupiter! Could it erupt with more powerful X-flares as has happened the past few months. Big flares threaten all the broadcast, global positioning and military satellites that now orbit our planet. As I’ve reported before in Earthfiles, the sun is not “normal.” Is it warming up? Earth’s North Pole and Mars’s South Pole are melting at a surprisingly rapid rate. Even far out Pluto seems to show some melting.

How many more ice caps on other planets have to melt before the US will finally agree to cripple it’s economy?

[Gore and bin Laden links from Opinion Journal. Earthfiles link from Digg.]