It's undoubtedly true that the sun warms the Earth; when it's at maximum output, the planet is warmer, and when the sun dims, the planet cools.
However, the sun isn't responsible for the overheating of our planet. Satellites have tracked the sun's output since the 1970s, and the data show that its output has been going down, not up.
Some still believe the sun is responsible for the heating of Earth, though, and one TikToker came to inform them of the truth.
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TikTok user Planetary_Connections (@talk_hotter_to_me) shared a video in which he lays out the facts about the sun's role as it pertains to increased global temperatures and ends it with, "If the sun were in charge, Earth should be cooling. Instead, global temperatures keep climbing […] The sun has an alibi. The fingerprints point to us."
The actual cause of increased warming across the globe is human activity that results in heat-trapping gases being released into the atmosphere. The main sources of these heat-trapping gases include the burning of dirty energy sources, deforestation, and agricultural practices.
While the sun does influence temperatures and the climate to a degree, as Planetary_Connections shared in the video, and this influence does change over time, the period of this change occurs in 11-year cycles. As a result, any changes to the climate that might occur due to the sun happen over hundreds of thousands of years, rather than rapidly warming the planet as has been seen in the past few decades.
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Additionally, as one TikTok user pointed out in the comments, "Long term, climate is also affected strongly by the Earth's orbit and wobble of the axis."
That means instead of waiting for the sun to somehow fix the planet's issue of consistently warming, the onus falls on us, collectively and individually, to do what we can to reduce the amount of heat-trapping gases released into the atmosphere.
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