NEWS FLASH: Al Gore's Head Explodes!
Well, not really... just his ridiculous cynical AGW argument. This is for you Ricochet science junkies via meteorologist Anthony Watts' most excellent site, Watts Up With That.
BREAKING NEWS -- CERN Experiment Confirms Cosmic Rays Influence Seed Clouds
I haven't read the whole thing yet and am on the run, but since my PhD planetary science physicist nephew and his mother are high-five-ing each other over the internet, I figure it's something the Rico-AGW skeptics might enjoy.
Update:
I've just finished reading the non-technical summary and I gotta say, "Wow!" If the East Anglia hacking scandal was a nail in the coffin of the credibility of warmist scientists, this is the last shovel full of earth on AGW science itself. It's done, dead and buried. We just have to notify the next of kin.
From Watt's preface to the article:
"I’ll have more on this as it develops (updated twice since the original report now), but for the short term, it appears that a non-visible light irradiance effect on Earth’s cloud seeds has been confirmed. The way it is posited to work is that the effect of cosmic rays (modulated by the sun’s magnetic variations which either allow more or deflect more cosmic rays) creates cloud condensation nuclei in the Earth’s atmosphere. With more condensation nuclei, more clouds form and vice-versa."
Unfortunately for the warmists, their own CERN study results completely validate Svensmark's hypothesis as summarized above. Their treatment of Svensmark and his associates has understandably embittered the author of the post, Nigel Calder, which is evident in his summary.
The Director General of CERN stirred controversy last month, by saying that the CLOUD team’s report should be politically correct about climate change (see my 17 July post below). The implication was that they should on no account endorse the Danish heresy – Henrik Svensmark’s hypothesis that most of the global warming of the 20th Century can be explained by the reduction in cosmic rays due to livelier solar activity, resulting in less low cloud cover and warmer surface temperatures.
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Shifting from my insider’s perspective on the CLOUD experiment, to see it on the broader canvas of the politicized climate science of the early 21st Century, the chief reaction becomes a weary sigh of relief. Although they never said so, the High Priests of the Inconvenient Truth – in such temples as NASA-GISS, Penn State and the University of East Anglia – always knew that Svensmark’s cosmic ray hypothesis was the principal threat to their sketchy and poorly modelled notions of self-amplifying action of greenhouse gases.
In telling how the obviously large influences of the Sun in previous centuries and millennia could be explained, and in applying the same mechanism to the 20th warming, Svensmark put the alarmist predictions at risk – and with them the billions of dollars flowing from anxious governments into the global warming enterprise.
In short, "It's the Sun, stupid!"
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Jun '10
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One might even say that Mr. Gore will be under a CLOUD for some time. Poor Al. Maybe he should run for President.
Jul '10
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I like to imagine his head imploding.
Aug '10
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Wondered what that blast of fetid hot air was, thought a roadkill had exploded or something...
Mar '11
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CERN has been sitting on this little egg for over a month. The gist of the post is pretty interesting.
CERN Director General Rolf-Dieter Heuer told Welt Online that the scientists should refrain from drawing conclusions from the latest experiment.
"I have asked the colleagues to present the results clearly, but not to interpret them," reports veteran science editor Nigel Calder on his blog. Why?
Because, Heuer says, "That would go immediately into the highly political arena of the climate change debate. One has to make clear that cosmic radiation is only one of many parameters."
So the question is, if the results of the experiment had supported global warming rather than tended to refute it, would there have been any delay in releasing the interpretations?
It's a good thing the science is settled.
Dec '10
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I watched an excellent YouTube video a while ago from one of the lead scientists on this study meticulously laying out the foundation of why this experiment matters. He kept on implying he had some pretty explosive results, but couldn't share them as the peer-review community has to get first rights to publish, or else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63AbaX1dE7I
I believe the journal Nature has already published on this as well, with a preliminary editorial suggesting we shouldn't make any broad, unsupportable decisions, of course. I found that pretty hilarious. They aren't generally bothered by just humble reticence.
Dec '10
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KarlUB: I watched an excellent YouTube video a while ago from one of the lead scientists on this study meticulously laying out the foundation of why this experiment matters. He kept on implying he had some pretty explosive results, but couldn't share them as the peer-review community has to get first rights to publish, or else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63AbaX1dE7I
I believe the journal Nature has already published on this as well, with a preliminary editorial suggesting we shouldn't make any broad, unsupportable decisions, of course. I found that pretty hilarious. They aren't generally bothered by just humble reticence. · Aug 24 at 7:54pm
Thanks for the link, Karl. I'll watch it at the next opportunity. FYI to others tempted to watch, it's a little over an hour.
May '10
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Gee, sounds like the CERN experiment might actually be An Inconvenient Truth.
Dec '10
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Isn't CO2 just one of many parameters as well? Self defeating arsehats make me laugh.
Oct '10
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All of the investors in the Global Warming opera brought it to to the Broadway stage and the show flopped. And all came away poor losers and makeup even worse excuses for their choices.
In short, what if you had to look into your Mothers eyes and said that you conspired to lie, cheat and commit theft for benifit ? Ask yourself... What your Mother think ?
Or does anyone care anymore.
Dec '10
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The updates on the article are interesting. It appears the AGW people are on serious offense to discredit this before it gets a foothold in the debate.
From New Scientist, "Other evidence shows that even if cosmic rays do affect the climate, the effect must be small. Changes in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere due to changes in solar activity cannot explain global warming, as average cosmic ray intensities have been increasing since 1985 even as the world has warmed - the opposite of what should happen if cosmic rays produce climate-cooling clouds."
Oct '10
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Short words for Gore, Frankein Science, meet the monster.
Dec '10
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The King Prawn:
From New Scientist, "Other evidence shows that even if cosmic rays do affect the climate, the effect must be small. Changes in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere due to changes in solar activity cannot explain global warming, as average cosmic ray intensities have been increasing since 1985 even as the world has warmed - the opposite of what should happen if cosmic rays produce climate-cooling clouds." · Aug 24 at 8:42pm
I just couldn't hack the whole article, but I thought they shot themselves in the head with this paragraph:
"There are at least three separate issues here. [1]First, do cosmic rays really trigger cloud formation? If so, [2]how do the resulting changes in cloud cover affect temperature? Finally, [3]does this explain the warming trend of the past few decades?"
Apparently the CERN experiment suggests the answer to [1] is yes. [2] I thought there was consensus that water vapor was the strongest forcing factor for GHG warming. [3] Warming stopped in 1998 coinciding nicely with an eerily quiet Sun (increased cosmic rays).
Watts says it's too soon to declare AGW dead, but he's such a gentleman...
Dec '10
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The King Prawn
Isn't CO2 just one of many parameters as well? Self defeating arsehats make me laugh. · Aug 24 at 8:29pm
Yeah, isn't it rich? How about the decades of warming contradicting Svensmark's increased cosmic radiation concept (even though warming ceased in 1998), but the "travesty" of warming cessation during massive dumps of CO2 into the atmosphere since 1998 goes unacknowledged. Except in secret East Anglia emails. It would all be a lot funnier if we weren't paying these arsehats 10s of billions of taxpayer dollars.
May '11
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Clearly we need to better understand how our behavior is affecting the sun. It must be our fault.
Dec '10
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Western Chauvinist
It would all be a lot funnier if we weren't paying these arsehats 10s of billions of taxpayer dollars. · Aug 24 at 9:23pm
Honestly, I would happily let them steal those billions if in return they would agree to stop helping the left kill our industrial base.
If that would make them shut up and go away, I say it's money well spent.
It's going to take two generations to undo the damage they've done to science as it is. We can't get started fixing things until they stop breaking them.
Aug '10
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Well, at least now Al Gore can get back to bringing public awareness to manbearpig.
He's super cereal.
Mar '11
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Mr Gore will have to accept that he is not very significant in the grand scheme of things, in spite of the size of his mansions and computer screens.
This nail has been a long time coming, but is only one of many. The bad news is that, as a result of the sun's unusually quiet spell, we are gonna continue in a cooling trend for the rest of our lives - good time to buy an SUV.
The good news is that Mr Perry is supported by science - real science, that is - not the post-modern liberal pseudo-science.
Apr '11
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Well, duhhhhhh! And that is all I'm going to say about that.
Apr '11
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Wait, you mean to tell me that the object in the sky that our planet revolves around that emits more energy to our planet in one hour than all the factories on our planet produce in a year has more influence on global climate/temps than a slight increase in a trace gas? Knock me over with a feather!!
Jun '10
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Steven Potter: Well, at least now Al Gore can get back to bringing public awareness to manbearpig.
He's super cereal. · Aug 24 at 11:57pm
Of course he's cereal.
Great South Park episode. When Matt and Trey go after someone they know how to do it.