THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIII, Issue # 212, August 28, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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"CLOUD" MATTERS
By Dennis T. Avery
HENRIK SVENSMARK'S THEORY ON CLOUDS, COSMIC RAYS, & GLOBAL TEMPERATURES: THE THEORY STANDING
UP TO INTENSIVE LABORATORY SCRUTINY -- THE VERDICT: COSMIC RAYS PRODUCE MORE LOW, WET CLOUDS THAT
COOL THE PLANET, IMPLYING THAT THE SUN, RATHER THAN LEVELS OF ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE, DETERMINES
THE EARTH'S CLIMATE -- FINDINGS OF CERN, THE WORLD'S MOST SOPHISTICATED PARTICLE STUDY LABORATORY, NOT
WELCOMED BY ENVIRONMENTALISTS, GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS, LEFTIST IDEOLOGUES, & OTHERS WHO HAVE A
VESTED INTEREST IN SELLING THE FRAUDULENT THEORY OF HUMAN-INDUCED GLOBAL WARMING.
FULL STORY:
Regular readers of this column will recall our prediction (July 19, 2011) of a climate debate bombshell in the form of
Denmark’s Henrik Svensmark's theory on clouds, cosmic rays, and the earth’s temperature standing up to intensive
laboratory scrutiny. We also predicted that the results would not be welcomed by those who have a vested interest in
man-made warming.
Well, the verdict is in: More cosmic rays do indeed produce more low, wet clouds that cool our planet -- implying that
the sun is in charge of our climate, not CO2. The big new experiment, done by the world’s most sophisticated particle
study laboratory, CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland, is now published in Nature.
Almost predictably, the results were greeted by Michael Lepage, of New Scientist, as confirmation that humans
control the earth’s clouds! “Organic vapors, released by organisms such as trees, marine bacteria and livestock,
appear to play a far more important role in cloud formation than suspected,” LePage wrote. “‘This was a big surprise,’
says Jasper Kirkby at CERN, whose team made the finding. Since our activities have such a huge impact on the
biosphere, this hints at a previously unknown way in which humans can affect the climate.’ he says.”
Wait a minute. Humans only began to raise cattle, build cities, and burn charcoal about 6000 years ago. For eons before
that, the planet itself had lots of dust from droughts and winds, sea spray from the oceans, and ammonia emitted as
deer and antelope played.
Cosmic rays create the Dansgaard-Oeschger cycle, a moderate 2 to 4 degree kink in earth’s temperatures every 1500
years on average. Svensmark found this cycle correlates with a solar cycle found in the Carbon 14 in trees and Beryllium
10 in ice. Those “cosmic particles” are created when cosmic rays strike our atmosphere. We’ve also found a strong link
between the extent of the low, wet clouds and the earth’s temperature.
CERN found the secret — the earth’s trace emissions of ammonia help to stabilize the cloud seed clusters created by the
cosmic rays. Thus the world’s biggest particle physics lab confirms cosmic-cloud connections found in earlier
experiments by Svensmark and by Denmark’s Aarhus University. .
If humans were putting up that much more pollution than nature did, CERN shows in fact it would currently mean more
cooling of the earth, not warming: more “pollution;” more clouds; and a colder earth.
CERN proved that the solar-varied cosmic rays increase the number of “cloud seeds” a thousand fold! Clouds in the real
world, however, seem to respond only to larger “cloud seeds,” and this is where the natural ammonia emissions become
important. CERN is planning another CLOUD experiment to focus on larger particles but says the global climate models
will have to be extensively revised.
The variable that touches off the 1,500-year cycle is crucial, however, and that seems to be external. Over thousands of
years, the cycles have shifted abruptly and repeatedly, which doesn’t sound like a Pittsburgh steel plant opening in 1948.
The sun remains the only likely trigger.
Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency is issuing regulations that would shut down many of our power plants
and destroy our coal industry to “save the planet.” In Europe, steel and chemical industries say they’ll take millions of
jobs to non-Kyoto countries. President’s Obama’s own jobs council chief, Jeffrey Immelt, is taking GE to China.
Why are we so fixated on blaming humans for a million-year-old process? Why do we insist we’re more powerful than the
sun?
Is this the world’s all-time biggest ego trip?
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Dennis T. Avery, a senior fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., is an environmental economist. He was
formerly a senior analyst for the U.S. Department of State. He is co-author, with S. Fred Singer of Unstoppable Global
Warming Every 1500 Years. Readers may write to Avery at PO Box 202, Churchville, Virginia, 2442; send him email at
cgfi@hughes.net; or visit us at www.cgfi.org
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