Cosmic Rays versus Anthropogenic Global Warming
The NASA data confirms what has been said all along: the computer models were based on false assumptions. Garbage In, Garbage Out. And this is making the rounds at various blogs and news sites, helped no doubt by Drudge's linkage.
I found this to be even more significant, though.
The chief of the world’s leading physics lab at CERN in Geneva has prohibited scientists from drawing conclusions from a major experiment. The CLOUD (“Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets”) experiment examines the role that energetic particles from deep space play in cloud formation. CLOUD uses CERN’s proton synchrotron to examine nucleation.
But we are free to interpret the data. What controls earth's heat? Clouds. What makes clouds? Cosmic rays. What causes cosmic rays? Solar activity. So, when the sun is quiet, less cosmic rays, less clouds, more heat. When the sun is active, more cosmic rays, more clouds, more heat. That's one aspect.
Another aspect is the cosmic rays from elsewhere in the galaxy, producing cyclic cooling -- the ice ages.
I'm no scientist, but I think I've read that right. Feel free to check my understanding:
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As I mentioned on Sister Toldjah, a whole box of nails in the coffin of anthropogenic global warming or climate change or whatever it's called these days, IIUC, is the (politically incorrect) confirmation that the overwhelmingly primary source of warming and cooling is cosmic rays.