Bees, Hornets, and Global "Warming"

Could this be why bees are disappearing?

Yesterday evening, while waiting for a bus, I noticed a bunch of bees dead on the pavement. I also noticed a hornet trying to carry away a dead bee body. Now I've seen this before so I figured that bees and hornets fight. And they do. Now I thought to myself, what if the missing bees are succumbing to a greater number or to the activity of hornets that is somehow related to global "warming". So I did a little "googling" and BINGO, a potential link. It turns out that hornets can be more active when exposed to more UV light because they stay cooler! So if greater solar activity is causing more UV light and warming, which I believe it is, it could also explain the missing bees. (See article)

Any comments?

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Insects stay cool with thermoelectricity

3 June 2003

Researchers in Israel have found the first evidence for natural heat pumps in living creatures. David Bergman and colleagues from Tel Aviv University used infrared imaging to show that wasps can sometimes remain much cooler than their surroundings. This is also the first time that the thermoelectric effect has been seen to play a role in the physiology of an animal (J S Ishay et al. 2003 Phys. Rev. Lett 90

218102).

Some wasps and hornets live in parts of the world where local temperatures can reach 60 oC or more. 'Social' wasps live in nests and regularly go outside to forage for food. During such activities the wasp produces heat that originates in its flight muscles and then spreads throughout the rest of its body. This should make the wasps even hotter but in experiments with oriental hornets Bergman and co- workers found that the internal body temperature of the wasps could be significantly cooler than the ambient temperature.

The Israeli workers argue that the insect must possess a heat pump, which works by using power generated from electrochemical reactions in its body. They believe that additional power is generated by the photovoltaic effect in the hornet's shell. This means that an electrical current is produced when the shell is exposed to sunlight - in a mechanism similar to that in a semiconductor p-n junction when irradiated with visible or ultraviolet light. "This could explain how hornets remain active even on very hot summer days," Bergman told PhysicsWeb.

The researchers also took transmission and scanning electron micrographs of the shell. They observed a microstructure that was very similar to that of a practical thermoelectric heat pump - but on a different length scale (see figure).

Reply to
Hurt
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To bad that your Googleing didn't find this:

Over the last 29 years direct, not proxy, measurement of the Sun's output has shown no long term growth large enough to explain the warming of the Earth, only an 11-year cycle is noticed:

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Roger Coppock

You're like a parrot; over and over again with the same squawk. Very well. For the benefit of those who might be swayed by your misery. Those satellites only measure radiation from ~200nm to 2000nm. The Sun is most variable in the UV portion of the spectrum. It also emits large quantities of microwaves during coronal mass ejections. Plus there is always the ever present galactic microwave background radiation through which our solar system is passing.

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hurt_beyond_repair

schrieb im Newsbeitrag news: snipped-for-privacy@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...

Total solar irradiance (TSI) variations may be small, but weren't it those AGWs who claim that small changes in their models might have an excessive change in the resulted output?

Furthermore TSI is not all, what sun is providing. Sun is modulating CRF, that again is reversely modulating LACC and therefore cooling. This effect can be much more stronger than any CO2 GH effect can ever be.

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Peter Muehlbauer

ice cores from antarctica go back 650,000 years and neither temp nor CO2 have ever been this high in all that time. so "natural" global warming would have to be on a cycle longer than 650K years.

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