Yet Another Blow Against Religious Orthodoxy
The latest climate science from CERN:
The first results from the lab’s CLOUD (“Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets”) experiment published in Nature today confirm that cosmic rays spur the formation of clouds through ion-induced nucleation. Current thinking posits that half of the Earth’s clouds are formed through nucleation. The paper is entitled Role of sulphuric acid, ammonia and galactic cosmic rays in atmospheric aerosol nucleation.
This has significant implications for climate science because water vapour and clouds play a large role in determining global temperatures. Tiny changes in overall cloud cover can result in relatively large temperature changes.
Unsurprisingly, it’s a politically sensitive topic, as it provides support for a “heliocentric” rather than “anthropogenic” approach to climate change: the sun plays a large role in modulating the quantity of cosmic rays reaching the upper atmosphere of the Earth.
Perhaps EPA needs to be empowered to regulate the sun.
Excellent idea! They’ll need to raid the place of course, and it’s a big place so they’ll need a lot of people.
Maybe they can take along the ATF people responsible for Operation Fast and Furious, and the Homeland Security folks who decided the Tea Party was a domestic terror group. In any case, the future of the planet demands they all depart immediately to go to the sun and shut it down!
I think they made a movie about that, actually – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/
When I saw the title of the post I thought it was referring to a group of people who follow a dogma on complete faith regardless of the scientific evidence provided.
Oh, wait…
It’s fun to watch the Left fight against heliocentrism, which is of course what landed Galileo in such hot water.
Yeah, but we’ve gotten more civilized in the last 400 years. Now the water they’re landing in is only a single degree above lukewarm.
I think the Sun People, who discovered fire-bending from the dragons, would not be shocked to know that the giant ball of flame in the sky known as the Sun would have a greater impact on the Earth then man.
Of course, sane people know there is no such thing as Sun People, fire-bending and dragons, but don’t clue the global warmists in on that.
I wonder how long they’ll hold on. Having their conferences, paying to see Al Gore speak, laying eggs.
Wait, so you’re saying that the sun, that giant gas ball of flaming energy that is 1.3 million times the size of the earth, might have more to do with the temperature of the earth than the relatively small inhabitants that walk upon it?
Someone needs a one-way trip to Siena.
What climate change reporters still do not understand (and may never) is that scientists do not operate on consensus. They operate on theories and experimental evidence suporting those theories.
In the case of heliocentric climate theory, I can only offer the following commentary: “DUH!”
Real climate scientists (those whose theories are not based upon political science) have known this for decades (if not centuries).
As an added benefit, I recommend you read the novel “Fallen Angels” by Dr Jerry Purnelle and Larry Niven. It accurate provides poignent drama against the backdrop of the real consequences of bending science to policy – its world has been taken over by the Greens who have inadvertentlt created a icebound world due to their reaction to fears of global warming.
The CERN findings show that eventually real science does prevail over politicized science. QuantumSam is quite right in pointing out that real scientists do not operate on consensus, but rather on theories and experimental evidence.
The notion that mere humans could affect the climate of this planet merely reflects the hubris of the leftists, who think they can control not only the economy but the entire world.
If 100 out of 100 scientists claim the sun will rise in the west tomorrow morning, then 100 out of 100 scientists will be full of crap, consensus or no.
Reality is a tough master.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-climate-energy-wrong-hot-global.html
This, coupled with the CERN results, would seem to indicate the computer models are bogus. Considering we risk billions of dollars in economic growth on these models, one would hope an effort is being made to fix them.