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The science is now all-but-settled on global warming, convincing new evidence demonstrates, but Al Gore, the IPCC and other global warming doomsayers won’t be celebrating. The new findings point to cosmic rays and the sun — not human activities — as the dominant controller of climate on Earth.
The research, published with little fanfare this week in the prestigious journal Nature, comes from über-prestigious CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, one of the world’s largest centres for scientific research involving 60 countries and 8,000 scientists at more than 600 universities and national laboratories. CERN is the organization that invented the World Wide Web, that built the multi-billion dollar Large Hadron Collider, and that has now built a pristinely clean stainless steel chamber that precisely recreated the Earth’s atmosphere
The hypothesis that cosmic rays and the sun hold the key to the global warming debate has been Enemy No. 1 to the global warming establishment ever since it was first proposed by two scientists from the Danish Space Research Institute, at a 1996 scientific conference in the U.K. Within one day, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Bert Bolin, denounced the theory, saying, “I find the move from this pair scientifically extremely naive and irresponsible.” He then set about discrediting the theory, any journalist that gave the theory cre dence, and most of all the Danes presenting the theory — they soon found themselves vilified, marginalized and starved of funding, despite their impeccable scientific credentials.
The mobilization to rally the press against the Danes worked brilliantly, with one notable exception. Nigel Calder, a former editor of The New Scientist who attended that 1996 conference, would not be cowed. Himself a physicist, Mr. Calder became convinced of the merits of the argument and a year later, following a lecture he gave at a CERN conference, so too did Jasper Kirkby, a CERN scientist in attendance. Mr. Kirkby then convinced the CERN bureaucracy of the theory’s importance and developed a plan to create a cloud chamber — he called it CLOUD, for “Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets.”
Yet this spectacular success will be largely unrecognized by the general public for years — this column will be the first that most readers have heard of it — because CERN remains too afraid of offending its government masters to admit its success. Weeks ago, CERN formerly decided to muzzle Mr. Kirby and other members of his team to avoid “the highly political arena of the climate change debate,” telling them “to present the results clearly but not interpret them” and to downplay the results by “mak[ing] clear that cosmic radiation is only one of many parameters.” The CERN study and press release is written in bureaucratese and the version of Mr. Kirkby’s study that appears in the print edition of Nature censored the most eye-popping graph — only those who know where to look in an online supplement will see the striking potency of cosmic rays in creating the conditions for seeding clouds.
Originally posted by navy_vet_stg3
According to Al Gore, you're now a racist if you question the man-made global warming hoax. Seems he's starting to squirm a little bit since he's had to pull the race card out of his hat.
Originally posted by SirClem
reply to post by jdub297
Global warming is a hoax perpetrated to control the world's population. Any other explanation offered is a lie.
I don't think anyone denied solar and exo solar influences and "cycles" are at work.
That's a big DUH!!
You're title and conclusion, are, however, entirely illogical.
Can we not have terrestrial (anthro), solar, and exo solar influences all at once?
The question is more: to what extent does each influential souce have on these overall "cycles".
Obviously, our species has SOME impact.
The honest debate focuses on finding out if our influence is able to exacerbate these "cycles" to an extent that civilization can not cope, and we become barbarians again.
I think even the slightest chance of that happening due to our foolishness is reason enough for caution and concern.
Do I agree with cap and trade? No, but that doesn't me AGW is a hoax, either!
Originally posted by jdub297
reply to post by grey580
Actually, it is posted here:
Role of sulphuric acid, ammonia and galactic cosmic rays in atmospheric aerosol nucleation
And a synopsis here:
Cloud formation may be linked to cosmic rays
The article has been mentioned several times recently, but the MSM largely ignores it.
Originally posted by unityemissions
I don't think anyone denied solar and exo solar influences and "cycles" are at work.
That's a big DUH!!
You're title and conclusion, are, however, entirely illogical.
Can we not have terrestrial (anthro), solar, and exo solar influences all at once?
The question is more: to what extent does each influential souce have on these overall "cycles".
Obviously, our species has SOME impact.
The honest debate focuses on finding out if our influence is able to exacerbate these "cycles" to an extent that civilization can not cope, and we become barbarians again.
I think even the slightest chance of that happening due to our foolishness is reason enough for caution and concern.
Do I agree with cap and trade? No, but that doesn't me AGW is a hoax, either!edit on 29-8-2011 by unityemissions because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by unityemissions
I don't think anyone denied solar and exo solar influences and "cycles" are at work.
You're title and conclusion, are, however, entirely illogical.
Can we not have terrestrial (anthro), solar, and exo solar influences all at once?
The question is more: to what extent does each influential souce have on these overall "cycles".
Obviously, our species has SOME impact.
The honest debate focuses on finding out if our influence is able to exacerbate these "cycles" to an extent that civilization can not cope, and we become barbarians again.
I think even the slightest chance of that happening due to our foolishness is reason enough for caution and concern.
For two decades, the world’s governments have failed to meet their own commitment to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, the main heat-trapping gas. As frustration builds among scientists, some of them have begun to argue for research on a potential last-ditch option in case global warming starts to get out of control. It is called geoengineering — or directly manipulating the Earth’s climate.