[asa] Serious scientists getting closer to the cosmic connection to climate

These are the results of a controlled experiment
by serious scientists, not some GIGO
(garbage-in/garbage-out) computer climate
modeling. They experimentally demonstrate how the
cause of global warming or "climate change" is the sun:

Getting closer to the cosmic connection to climate
http://www.spacecenter.dk/publications/press-releases/getting-closer-to-the-cosmic-connection-to-climate

Experimental evidence shows that cosmic rays from
exploding stars can help to make clouds in the atmosphere.

An essential role for remote stars in everyday
weather on Earth has been revealed by an
experiment at the Danish National Space Center in
Copenhagen. It is already well-established that
when cosmic rays, which are high-speed atomic
particles originating in exploded stars far away
in the Milky Way, penetrate the Earth’s
atmosphere, they produce substantial amounts of
ions and release free electrons. Now, results
from the Danish experiment show that the released
electrons play a significan role in promoting the
formation of building blocks for cloud
condensation nuclei, on which water vapor
condenses to make clouds. Hence, a causal
mechanism by which cosmic rays can facilitate the
production of clouds in Earth’s atmosphere has
been experimentally identified for the first time.

The Danish team officially announced their
discovery on Wednesday in Proceedings of the
Royal Society A, published by the Royal Society,
(the UK´s national academy of science).

The experiment

The experiment called SKY (Danish for ‘cloud’)
took place in a large reaction chamber which
contained a mixture of gases at realistic
concentrations to imitate the chemistry of the
lower atmosphere. Ultraviolet lamps mimicked the
action of the Sun’s rays. During experimental
runs, instruments traced the chemical action of
the penetrating cosmic rays in the reaction chamber.
The data revealed that electrons released by
cosmic rays act as catalysts, which significantly
accelerating the formation of stable, ultra-small
clusters of sulphuric acid and water molecules
which are the building blocks for cloud
condensation nuclei. A vast numbers of such
microscopic droplets appeared, floating in the air in the reaction chamber.
‘We were amazed by the speed and efficiency with
which the electrons do their work of creating the
building blocks for the cloud condensation
nuclei,’ says team leader Henrik Svensmark, who
is Director of the Center for Sun-Climate
Research within the Danish National Space Center.
‘This is a completely new result within climate science.’

A missing link in climate theory

The experimental results lend strong empirical
support to the theory proposed a decade ago by
Henrik Svensmark and Eigil Friis-Christensen that
cosmic rays influence Earth’s climate through
their effect on cloud formation. The original
theory rested on data showing a strong
correlation between variation in the intensity of
cosmic radiation penetrating the atmosphere and
the amount of low-altitude clouds. Cloud cover
increases when the intensity of cosmic rays grows
and decreases when the intensity declines.
It is known that low-altitude clouds have an
overall cooling effect on the Earth’s surface.
Hence, variations in cloud cover caused by cosmic
rays can change the surface temperature. The
existence of such a cosmic connection to the
Earth’s climate might thus help to explain past
and present variations in the Earth’s climate.
Interestingly, during the 20th Century, the Sun’s
magnetic field (which shields Earth from cosmic
rays) more than doubled, thereby reducing the
average influx of cosmic rays. The resulting
reduction in cloudiness, especially of
low-altitude clouds, may be a significant factor
in the global warming Earth has undergone during
the last century. Until now, however, there has
been no experimental evidence of how the causal
mechanism linking cosmic rays and cloud formation may work.

‘Many climate scientists have considered the
linkages from cosmic rays to clouds to climate as
unproven,’ comments Eigil Friis-Christensen, who
is now Director of the Danish National Space
Center. ‘Some said there was no conceivable way
in which cosmic rays could influence cloud cover.
The SKY experiment now shows how they do so, and
should help to put the cosmic-ray connection
firmly onto the agenda of international climate research.’ [end quote]

Remember, there are two separate arguments made
by the global warming crowd: that there is in
fact global warming, and that we humans are the
cause. Thus their argument is called
Anthropogenic (man-made) Warming. And thus they
argue for shutting down human activity that
generates the dreaded "greenhouse gas" of CO2 (carbon dioxide).

This argument has always been beyond stupid
because CO2 accounts for less than 3% of
greenhouse gases. 80% of such gases is water
vapor, for which man is not responsible. Further,
the earth has been warming since the end of the
Little Ice Age in the mid-1800s, yet there was no
appreciable increase in atmospheric CO2 until
over a century later in the mid-1900s.

With an experimentally-verified alternate
explanation to anthropogenic warming, the
arguments of the global warming crowd for
shutting down the world's economy (America's in
particular) have been blown out of the water.

No wonder the enviros are getting pathologically
hysterical, now demanding that "global warming
deniers" be criminally prosecuted in
Nuremberg-type war crime trials. (Google "global
warming deniers" + "Nuremberg" and you'll get 18,000 hits.)

The Svensmark-Christensen experiments are also
important in that they will generate a
constituency for solar warming within the
scientific community - namely, high-energy physicists.

The way things have been, all the money has been
flowing to anthropogenic warming research.

Money for particle accelerators has been in short supply.

To study cosmic rays requires such accelerators,
because cosmic rays can carry billions of
electron volts. Some have been recorded at 1020
electron volts, and there is no current
explanation of how those massive energies are generated.

Thus high-energy physicists are going to jump at
the opportunity for funding and thus argue
against man-made global warming. So much for
scientific
"consensus." ..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1723443/posts?page=31#31

~ Janice ... which probably explains why more
and more embarrassed scientist are defecting from
belief in human induced "Global Warming"
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