That might have something to do with the current trend. It had nothing to do with the previous half a dozen trends over the last 1,000 years.

Paul - Sunspots. There is a very high correlation between sunspot activity and global temperatures. And I very sincerely doubt that a few degrees warmer here on Earth causes manyfold increases in sunspot activity...

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.