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El Puntillero on Friday, March 02, 2007 4:59:12 AM
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Just as the pseuds at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were announcing the latest batch of statistics concerning global warming (the “evidence” won’t be published until around July 2007), along comes more scientific proof that the whole left wing gaggle of ecohustlers is being more than a little economical with the truth.
Henrik Svensmark, a senior weather scientist at the Danish National Space Centre believes cosmic rays are responsible for global warming – and global cooling. Increased intensification of the sun’s magnetic field leads to fewer cosmic rays reaching earth, which in turn leads to the creation of fewer clouds in our atmosphere.
This relative decline in cloud cover is responsible for a slight increase in temperatures in areas that are more exposed. When the sun’s magnetic field weakens –as it does periodically, there is a corresponding rise in the quantity of cosmic rays which penetrate our atmosphere and hence more clouds. This in turn causes a slight decrease in temperatures.
What’s more, there is absolutely nothing we can do about if unless we are able to change cloud cover, cosmic ray penetration and the sun’s magnetic field.
Svensmark accuses the folk at the IPCC of getting the facts somewhat muddled.
“It was long thought that clouds were caused by climate change, but now we see that climate change is driven by clouds,” he claimed.
For those who want to know a little more about the man behind the claims, should note his findings have been published by the Danish Space Centre, which implies official recognition of his work by Denmark. So, at least one developed country is prepared to keep an open mind over global warming.
The Dane’s views are supported by some of his colleagues, like Prof Bob Bingham, a clouds expert from the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils in Rutherford.
Svensmark’s research may also provide answers to some issues that could never be explained by the global warming doom mongerers. For instance, why has the sea ice in the antarctic increased by 8% since 1978? Why, especially, is eastern Antarctica getting colder? Al Gore has pounced on the slight decrease in arctic ice cover, but has been lamentably slow to come up with a convincing explanation for what’s happening on the other side of our planet.
According to earlier research by the Danish scientist, this is perfectly understandable because the underlying snow in the affected part of Antarctica is whiter than the cloud cover, and thus reflects heat more efficiently.
Solar physicists have also pointed out the sun’s magnetic and heat intensity for this cycle peaked in 1997. Is it any wonder that records also show the global temperature also peaked – for this cycle – at the same time?
The global warming fraudsters have too much to lose by admitting the truth, but hopefully Svensmark’s work has brought the day of reckoning a little closer.
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