Until now global warming was associated with the overconsumption of fossil fuels by us humans, but a new research scientist with the army thinks otherwise. Dr. Bruce West, from the Army Research Office thinks that changes in the earth's average surface temperature are directly linked to the short-term statistical fluctuations in the Sun's irradiance and the longer-term solar cycles. In the March, 2008 issue of Physics Today, West, the chief scientist of the Army Research Office's mathematical and information science directorate, wrote that "the Sun's turbulent dynamics" are linked with the Earth's complex ecosystem. These connections are what is heating up the planet. "The Sun could account for as much as 69 percent of the increase in Earth's average temperature,"

Now the Army has publically said that these are simply the observations from an individual scientist and are not the stand of the army. Its not really an issue considering the amount of researchers working on other ways to push the blame away from corporations or individual organizations.

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