It’s not that I am actively rooting for theory to be proven wrong, but I am actually looking forward to its proponents being chased from town by threat of torches, pitchforks, tar and feathers. Eco terrorists have for about 4 decades now delighted in their destruction of our national economy and social fabric by creation of hysteria over many phenomena which quite simply are being slowly proven false. As it turns out, the very most recent experiment conducted at the World’s most famous super collider has shown the man made global warming theory to be the farce many of us have known it to be all along.
One of the hot topics, so to speak, in the global warming debate is allocating responsibility for 20th century warming between natural and man-made effects. This is harder than one might imagine — after all, no one’s thermometer has two readings, one for “natural” and one for “man-made.” This week, from CERN in Geneva, comes an important new study in this debate.
Global warming skeptics argue that only a portion, possibly a small portion, of recent warming is due to man-made CO2 and greenhouse gasses. Climate alarmists have, in turn, argued that all of 20th century warming, and more, was due to anthropogenic effects (if the “and more” is confusing, it means that some scientists believe that certain man-made and natural cooling effects actually reduced man-made warming below what it might have been.)
Much of the debate revolves around the role of the sun, and though holding opposing positions, both skeptics and alarmists have had good points in the debate. Skeptics have argued that it is absurd to downplay the role of the sun, as it is the energy source driving the entire climate system. Michael Mann notwithstanding, there is good evidence that unusually cold periods have been recorded in times of reduced solar activity, and that the warming of the second half of the 20th century has coincided with a series of unusually strong solar cycles.
Global warming advocates have responded, in turn, that while the sun has indeed been more active in the last half of the century, the actual percentage change in solar irradiance is tiny, and hardly seems large enough to explain measured increases in temperatures and ocean heat content.
And thus the debate stood, until a Danish scientist named Henrik Svensmark suggested something outrageous — that cosmic rays might seed cloud formation. The implications, if true, had potentially enormous implications for the debate about natural causes of warming.
When the sun is very active, it can be thought of as pushing away cosmic rays from the Earth, reducing their incidence. When the sun is less active, we see more cosmic rays. This is fairly well understood. But if Svensmark was correct, it would mean that periods of high solar output should coincide with reduced cloud formation (due to reduced cosmic ray incidence), which in turn would have a warming effect on the Earth, since less sunlight would be reflected back into space by clouds.
With each day now, another piece of the hysterical global warming argument is destroyed. Yet, here we are, entertaining politicians who are telling us that we should accept their destruction of our economic well being based on saving something that hardly notices we are here, namely our planet. We are spending ourselves into a debt riddled oblivion in order to subsidize the completely useless green jobs scam. Thomas Edison’s invention has been made illegal, I can’t buy the toilet of my choice, coupled of course with the government’s bankrupting of the nation’s energy producers and pushing cars even my grandmother would find ridiculous, has all been made possible through wasteful subsidy programs designed to socially engineer our collective, (pun intended,) behavior. The reason of course has almost nothing to do with any actual environmental concerns. Like all useful idiots, the truly stupid liberal activists have found themselves in the all too familiar position of being used as tools by Socialists who view themselves as ruling class elites, who by the way know what is best for us, better than we.
So, what would the scientific community have to say about the results of the experiment with the full use of their professional ethics and superior integrity?
About a month ago, before the study results had been made public, the skeptic camp experienced a “dog that didn’t bark” moment when the director of CERN asked that his scientists (incredibly) refrain from drawing any public conclusions from the study, saying “I have asked the colleagues to present the results clearly, but not to interpret them.” Skeptics, including me, guessed that this meant the data was tending to support the Svensmark hypothesis. After all, the climate community has no problem drawing alarmist conclusions from the thinnest of data. Every climate scientist seems to have his or her own full-time PR agent. If they were explicitly avoiding public comment, and in fact telling scientists to effectively not do their job and draw no conclusions from the data, then the results must be threatening to the mainstream global warming community.
Get that? No need to let the public in on the fact that we just disproved the whole man made global warming thing, just keep that to yourselves fellows, and allow us to keep milking the suckers for more funding.
Just to put the exclamation on the point of the ecology movement being taken over by Socialists decades ago, enjoy Senator Rand Paul getting one of those Socialists, Ms. Hogan, an Obama appointee to the EPA, to publicly admit the Marxist agenda in the name of saving the planet. Money quote from Ms. Hogan, at 4:05 of the video, she has the audacity to instruct Senator Paul as to what he really wants, or more specifically what it is he should really want. For your information tootsie, I don’t just want light, I want light in the form of a 50 cent bulb rather than in the form of a $2.50 bulb. That $2.50 bulb by the way, requires a Hasmat Team for proper disposal should one break in your home. My children, between the 4 of them, must have broken about 3 dozen light bulbs over the years.
Like I said, torches, pitchforks, tar, and feathers.
Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
Tags: Cern, Global Warming
