I'm happy for Shaviv. It's nice somebody thinks well of him. Too bad it's not his peers.
"You don't need a degree in climatology to diagnose bull--- in industrial quantities being spewed by a massive media propaganda organ"
I know. Here's a book about it.
Climate Cover-Up
The Crusade to Deny Global Warming
by James Hoggan with Richard Littlemore
Starting in the early 1990s, three large American industry groups set to work on strategies to cast doubt on the science of climate change. Even though the oil industry’s own scientists had declared, as early as 1995, that human-induced climate change was undeniable, the American Petroleum Institute, the Western Fuels Association (a coal-fired electrical industry consortium) and a Philip Morris-sponsored anti-science group called TASSC all drafted and promoted campaigns of climate change disinformation
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Lead Author: Paper "Says Nothing About" Effect Of Cosmic Rays On "Clouds And Climate." Nature reported:
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Conservative Media Claim CERN Study Refutes Manmade Global Warming Fox's Smith: The Study "Proved Without Any Other Variables That It Was The Rays That Caused The Earth Warming." From the August 30 edition of Fox Business' America's Nightly Scoreboard:
TOBIN SMITH, GUEST HOST: We can report tonight the science of climate change is now all but settled. Yes friends and neighbors, and the global warming alarmists have been dealt a wee bit of a blow, right? CERN, C-E-R-N, one of the world's largest and most prestigious centers for scientific research, has concluded that it's the sun's rays, not human activity, which controls the earth's climate. Now, that, of course, is horrible news for the greenies who've used, you know, for years questionable science to justify more and more regulations against fossil fuels like coal and oil, all the while arguing for more and more for the renewable energy sources they just love so dearly. So are the greens prepared to back down now that the science has proved them wrong?
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SMITH: The meticulousness that CERN used here and the time element involved to prove without any other variables that it was the rays that caused the Earth warming, how are the greenies going to get out of this one? [Fox Business Network, America's Nightly Scoreboard, 8/30/11]
Fox Business also aired the following on-screen text stating, "NEW RESEARCH SETTLES THE CLIMATE DEBATE":
Fox's Gutfeld: "New Findings Now Say It's The Cosmic Rays Of The Sun" Causing Warming. During a discussion of global warming on the August 29 edition of Fox News' The Five, co-host Greg Gutfeld said, "Can I just point out, the new findings now say it's the cosmic rays of the sun. That's the nature!" [Fox News, The Five, 8/29/11]
CBN: The Study "Suggests That The Leading Cause Of The Climate Change May Actually Just Be The Sun, Not Human Beings." From the August 31 edition of the Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club:
KRISTI WATTS, CO-HOST: There's so many different theories as to what is causing the Earth to change and the climate and this and that. But now an important new scientific study actually suggests that the leading cause of the climate change may actually just be the sun, not human beings. Well Dale Hurd has that story.
DALE HURD: In the world of climate science, the news came as a bit of a bombshell. A new study from CERN, the prestigious European Organization of Nuclear Research, supports the theory that periods of Earth warming are caused by solar activity and so called cosmic rays, rather than human activity. [CBN, The 700 Club, 8/31/11]
Wash. Times: "New Science Is Dispelling" The "Delusion" That Humans Cause Warming. From an August 30 Washington Times editorial:
It's not surprising that prominent members of the "me" generation who think the universe revolves around themselves also believe they hold sway over Earth's climate. New science is dispelling their delusion and confirming that Mother Nature still is in control of the environment.
It turns out the sun's cosmic rays play a commanding role in atmospheric cloud formation and thus surface temperatures. This is according to research in the Aug. 25 edition of the journal Nature by scientists at the prestigious CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.
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The findings are a strong indication that cosmic rays striking the planet have a similar effect on atmospheric chemicals and stimulate the creation of clouds. It follows that spikes in the intensity of the sun's cosmic rays stimulate the growth of more cloud seeds, resulting in more widespread cloud cover and a cooling effect at ground level.
For dogmatists who believe humans are heating the earth by allowing so-called "greenhouse gases" to billow into the atmosphere, countervailing evidence indicating the sun plays a primary role in climate change is a faith-shaker. This is akin to saying "God is dead" to Al Gore and his fellow believers who insist their junk science is "settled" and no do-overs are allowed. [Washington Times, 8/30/11]
IBD: Findings "Indicate That The Sun, Not Man, Determines Earth's Temperature." From an August 30 Investor's Business Daily editorial titled "Watching A Green Fiction Unravel":
Experiments performed by a European nuclear research group indicate that the sun, not man, determines Earth's temperature. Somewhere, Al Gore just shuddered as an unseasonably cool breeze blows by.
The results from an experiment to mimic Earth's atmosphere by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, tell researchers that the sun has a significant effect on our planet's temperature. Its magnetic field acts as a gateway for cosmic rays, which play a large role in cloud formation.
Consequently, when the sun's magnetic field allows cosmic rays to seed cloud cover, temperatures are cooler. When it restricts cloud formation by deflecting cosmic rays away from Earth, temperatures go up.
Or, as the London Telegraph's James Delingpole delicately put it:
"It's the sun, stupid." [Investor's Business Daily, 8/30/11]
Major Scientific Bodies: Human Activity Is Behind Current Climate Change National Research Council: "Preponderance Of Scientific Evidence" Indicates That Humans Are Changing The Climate. In a recent report, the National Research Council stated: "[T]he preponderance of scientific evidence points to human activities -- especially the release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere -- as the most likely cause for most of the global warming that has occurred over the last several decades." [National Research Council, 5/12/11]
American Chemical Society: Climate Change Is "Largely Attributable To Emissions From Human Activities." According to the American Chemical Society: "[C]omprehensive scientific assessments of our current and potential future climates clearly indicate that climate change is real, largely attributable to emissions from human activities, and potentially a very serious problem." [American Chemical Society, accessed 8/3/11]
AAAS: "Global Climate Change Is Real" And "Is Caused Largely By Human Activities." The American Association for the Advancement of Science said in a 2009 statement: "The vast preponderance of evidence, based on years of research conducted by a wide array of different investigators at many institutions, clearly indicates that global climate change is real, it is caused largely by human activities, and the need to take action is urgent." [American Association For The Advancement of Science, 12/4/09]
American Meteorological Society: "Humans Have Significantly Contributed" To Climate Change. In a February 2007 statement, the American Meteorological Society said "there is adequate evidence" to conclude "that humans have significantly contributed" to climate change and that "further climate change will continue to have important impacts on human societies, on economies, on ecosystems, and on wildlife through the 21st century and beyond." [American Meteorological Society, 2/1/07]
Geological Society Of America: "Human Activities ... Account For Most Of The Warming Since The Middle 1900s." From an April 2010 position statement of the Geological Society of America:
The Geological Society of America (GSA) concurs with assessments by the National Academies of Science (2005), the National Research Council (2006), and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) that global climate has warmed and that human activities (mainly greenhouse gas emissions) account for most of the warming since the middle 1900s. If current trends continue, the projected increase in global temperature by the end of the twentyfirst century will result in large impacts on humans and other species. [Geological Society of America, April 2010]
Conservative Media Have Repeatedly Distorted Research To Downplay Manmade Climate Change Conservative Media Falsely Claim Study "Blows Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism." Conservative media asserted that a study by Roy Spencer undermines projections of significant global warming. In fact, their claims are not supported by the study, which itself suffers from important shortcomings, according to climate experts. [Media Matters, 8/1/11]
Scientist Calls Fox's Global Warming Headline "Patently False." Fox Nation is claimed a study found that "Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduce Global Warming." According to the study's lead author, the headline is "patently false." [Media Matters, 7/5/11]
Sea Level Researchers Debunk Wash. Times' Distortion Of Their Work. A Washington Times editorial falsely claims that a recent sea level study "shows oceans are not rising." In fact, the study does not dispute that sea levels are rising, and the study's author calls the Washington Times' claim "a mischaracterization of our work." [Media Matters, 3/29/11]
Fox Twists Scientific Research To Announce A "Mini Ice Age" - Again. Fox Nation claimed that sun spot observations mean: "Global Warming Be Damned, We Might Be Headed for a Mini Ice Age." In fact, solar physicist Frank Hill, who was involved in the research, explained via email that those warning of a mini ice age are making a "huge leap" from current scientific understanding of the variables involved. [Media Matters, 6/15/11]
Stanford Scientist Criticizes Fox Distortion Of His Climate Study. Fox Nation misrepresented a recent study on the impact of climate change on the world's crops, proclaiming that it showed "No Global Warming In North America." Stanford's David Lobell, one of the authors of the study, explained in an email that he was "disappointed" with Fox's coverage, which "do not accurately portray our findings." [Media Matters, 5/11/11]
Right-Wing Media Run With Mail Article Falsely Suggesting Climate Expert Predicts "Mini Ice Age." FoxNews.com, Fox Nation, and Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft cited a Mail on Sunday article suggesting that climate scientist Mojib Latif predicted a "mini ice age" over the next 20 or 30 years, with Hoft asserting that global warming is "junk science." But Latif has since challenged the Mail article's use of his research, and said he predicts "nothing that would constitute a little ice age or an ice age." [Media Matters, 1/12/10]
UPDATE: Conservative Media Are Still Spinning Cosmic Ray Study WSJ Suggests CERN Study Contradicts Manmade Climate Change. In a column titled "The Other Climate Theory," Anne Jolis suggested that the CERN study contradicts Al Gore's "conviction that climate change was dominated by man-made emissions" by showing that "heavenly bodies might be driving long-term weather trends":
In April 1990, Al Gore published an open letter in the New York Times "To Skeptics on Global Warming" in which he compared them to medieval flat-Earthers. He soon became vice president and his conviction that climate change was dominated by man-made emissions went mainstream. Western governments embarked on a new era of anti-emission regulation and poured billions into research that might justify it. As far as the average Western politician was concerned, the debate was over.
But a few physicists weren't worrying about Al Gore in the 1990s. They were theorizing about another possible factor in climate change: charged subatomic particles from outer space, or "cosmic rays," whose atmospheric levels appear to rise and fall with the weakness or strength of solar winds that deflect them from the earth. These shifts might significantly impact the type and quantity of clouds covering the earth, providing a clue to one of the least-understood but most important questions about climate. Heavenly bodies might be driving long-term weather trends.
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Last month's findings don't herald the end of a debate, but the resumption of one. That is, if the politicians purporting to legislate based on science will allow it. [Wall Street Journal, 9/7/11]
- National Review: "Don't Tell Al Gore, But Maybe The Sun Has Something To Do With Global Warming." National Review's Greg Pollowitz promoted the op-ed in a post titled "Don't Tell Al Gore, but Maybe the Sun Has Something to do With Global Warming." [National Review Online, 9/7/11]
BigGovernment: Study "Proves" Cosmic Rays, Not Man, Are The "Dominant Controller Of Temperatures." Chriss W. Street wrote at BigGovernment, "Nature Journal of Science, ranked as the world's most cited scientific periodical, has just published the definitive study on Global Warming that proves the dominant controller of temperatures in the Earth's atmosphere is due to galactic cosmic rays and the sun, rather than by man." Street also falsely claimed Jyrki Kauppinen is "one of the report's authors." [BigGovernment, 9/6/11]
Wash. Examiner: "The Latest Science Shows" Global Warming May Be A "Myth." Matt Patterson wrote in a Washington Examiner op-ed titled, "New climate science vindicates global warming skeptics":
At a time when the United States (and much of the world) teeters on the abyss of fiscal collapse thanks to staggering levels of debt and deficits, the cure environmentalists prescribe for the global warming "fever" would amount to nothing less than economic suicide.
But, as the latest science shows, man-made global warming may be nothing more than a man-made myth after all.
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There was no room to doubt this theory: The science, we were told, was "settled."
Turns out, it wasn't settled at all. In August, the world's most prestigious scientific journal Nature published research potentially vindicating an old theory that the interaction of cosmic rays and the sun's magnetic field may contribute to Earth's constantly changing climate. [Washington Examiner, 9/7/11]
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