Omissions can be revealing. The list of greenhouse gasses given on [G17]26 does not include _G.H₂O, probably the most important of them all. [G17] maintains that there is no evidence of any anthropogenic contribution to rises in sea levels so far. According to [G07], around 6 x 10⁹ tons of anthropogenic CO₂ are released into the atmosphere per year [G07]. Assuming hydrocarbons have an average composition of CH₃ then

 2CH₃ + 7O--> 2CO₂ + 3H₂O

The weight of combustion H₂O added to the atmosphere annually is thus about 6 x 10⁹ x 54/88 = 3.68 x 10⁹ tons. The total combustion H₂O added to the environment since 1870, assuming average combustion H₂O release was ½ present, is 2.57 x 10¹¹ tons. This water certainly adds to anthropogenic sea-level rise. No mention is made of anthropogenic Q flows in [G17], or in any of the IPCC reports this author consulted.

The sun may be partly responsible for global warming: Using the very high forcing-to temperature conversion factor implicit in the Stern report, the Sun could have caused almost all the increase in temperature observed in the 20th century, allowing no room for any contribution from greenhouse gasses. I conclude that the sun is very likely to have contributed rather more to the past century's warm period than the UN has assumed, and that assumptions about the contribution of greenhouse gasses to warming should be revised downward accordingly [G17]22.

Solar radiation is not constant. When most of the heavy planets are on one side of the sun, the earth on the other, the earth is pulled closer to the sun, and gets more of its heat. These events are recurrent, calculable, and may correspond to periods of global warming. Eigil Friis-Christensen, Knud Lassen and Henrik Svensmark of the Danish Meteorological Institute showed in 1995 that there was a remarkably close fit between temperatures on earth and sunspot cycles. Ionizing cosmic rays had been tracked for 100 years in Wilson cloud chambers. Svensmarks noted that cosmic radiation on the earth was very high in 1986-87 when solar activity was small, and the cloud cover over the ocean was high. When the number of sun spots increased in 1990, cosmic radiation and the cloud cover decreased simultaneously. Increasing solar activity strengthens the earth's Van Allen and ionosphere shields from ionizing radiation. There are more clouds and the earth cools when there are fewer sun spots. In addition, cosmic rays from exploding stars have now been found to contribute substantially to cloud formation and the greenhouse effect.

Mars, Pluto, Jupiter, Saturn, Triton and numerous other nooks and crannies throughout the solar system are experiencing warming trends and volatile weather patterns [w16]. According to a study undertaken by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Goettingen, Germany, the earth and its celestial counterparts are getting hotter because the sun is burning more brightly than at any time in the past 1,000 years.