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Monday, August 29, 2011

More news on the climate front

In an article in the Financial Post, Lawrence Solomon reports on the latest results of scientific enquiry regarding climate change. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, released the results of detailed experiments that show that essentially all of the recent changes in Earth's climate can be explained by the variations in the magnetic field of the Sun and its effect on shielding the Earth from cosmic radiation. Simply put, cosmic rays work to create clouds in the atmosphere which shield the Earth from solar generated heat. The higher the level of cosmic radiation, the lower the temperature on Earth. If the Sun's magnetic field gets stronger, it shields the Earth from some of the cosmic rays and the result is higher terrestrial temperatures.

Unlike most of the global warming studies of the last decades, this result is not the basis of a computer model containing an assortment of assumptions. The CERN result comes from direct scientific experimentation, observation and calculation. It is an observable fact, not a theory that has to be "believed" like a religion.

The CERN results were published in Nature, this week. Solomon's article, however, is the first that I have seen discussing the increadible importance of this work. I did see Al Gore's latest lament this morning, however, in which he called those who oppose the idea of man-made global warming the "racists" of the 21st century. That diatribe, not actual science, is what gets coverage in the misguided media.


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