Cosmic Global Warming
Man-made climate change may be happening at a far slower rate than has been claimed, according to controversial new research.
Scientists say that cosmic rays from outer space play a far greater role in changing the Earth’s climate than global warming experts previously thought.
In a book, to be published this week, they claim that fluctuations in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere directly alter the amount of cloud covering the planet.
How cosmic rays could seed clouds diagramHigh levels of cloud cover blankets the Earth and reflects radiated heat from the Sun back out into space, causing the planet to cool.
Henrik Svensmark, a weather scientist at the Danish National Space Centre who led the team behind the research, believes that the planet is experiencing a natural period of low cloud cover due to fewer cosmic rays entering the atmosphere.
This, he says, is responsible for much of the global warming we are experiencing.
He claims carbon dioxide emissions due to human activity are having a smaller impact on climate change than scientists think. If he is correct, it could mean that mankind has more time to reduce our effect on the climate.
Watch this guy get crucified by all the GW proponents. Even though his theory makes more sense.
Also, do you see the obligatory kowtow to the anthropogenic global warming police?
“If he is correct, it could mean that mankind has more time to reduce our effect on the climate.”
Translation: “no matter what scientists ultimately discover as the cause of climate shifts during any particular slice of global history, mankind must reduce its effect on the climate. It’s a given. No argument. You must do it!”
This attitude gives the lie to the so called “scientific” aspect of contemporary climate change hysteria. Blind obeisance to “consensus” and stifling skepticism is the furthest thing possible from true science.
Nigel Calder discusses this theory further here. It’s filled with excellent critique, but here’s my favorite:
“The small print [in the IPCC’s recent summary report] explains “very likely” as meaning that the experts who made the judgment felt 90% sure about it. Older readers may recall a press conference at Harwell in 1958 when Sir John Cockcroft, Britain’s top nuclear physicist, said he was 90% certain that his lads had achieved controlled nuclear fusion. It turned out that he was wrong. More positively, a 10% uncertainty in any theory is a wide open breach for any latterday Galileo or Einstein to storm through with a better idea. That is how science really works.”
Even Calder misses the point that the IPCC claimed ”Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures...”. “Most” is a red flag for junk science, further discussed here.
Posted by goy on 02/11 at 11:37 AMYep. The IPCC is a joke and all the scientists who contributed to that thing should be exposed as frauds. The UN is the most disreputable, corrupt organization around. Everything it does is about guilting rich nations out of their money and letting third world despotic regimes shoot their mouths off about racism and the US while murdering their citizens.
Posted by on 02/11 at 01:13 PMIs the GW headquarters in Boston?
Posted by on 02/11 at 07:25 PMI’d think that’s at Turtle Bay.
Posted by Macker on 02/12 at 05:13 AM
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