THE DEATH OF THE ARGUMENT FOR MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING

One year ago, in September 2005, you learned what is actually causing whatever global warming the earth is experiencing. 

Solar Warming explained the specific mechanism involved:  the sun's increased magnetic activity deflecting the rain of cosmic rays upon the atmosphere, resulting in fewer clouds reflecting sunlight back into space and thus a warmer earth.

There is no better correlation to the earth's climate than the sun's magnetic activity, denoted by sunspots.  When this activity is high the earth warms;  when it is low, the earth cools.  (See the chart in Solar Warming.)

Another long-known correlation is that between the amount of cosmic radiation and clouds:  the more the radiation, the more cloud cover;  the less radiation, the less cloud cover.

Also known by scientists is that the sun's magnetic field shields or deflects cosmic rays away from earth.  Since the sun's magnetic field and sunspot activity has been high through much of the 20^th century, certain scientists hypothesized that the resultant decrease in cosmic radiation would result in less cloud formation and thus a warmer earth.

Among these scientists were Henrik Svensmark and Eigil Friis-Christensen, directors of the Center for Sun-Climate Research at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen.

Earlier this month, they released the results of very well-designed and controlled experiments demonstrating the chemical mechanism of cosmic ray action upon cloud formation.  Their paper, Experimental Evidence for the role of Ions in Particle Nucleation under Atmospheric Conditions, is highly technical, but they provide a two easily-understandable explanations.

First is a graphic description, The SKY Experiment in Copenhagen. ("Sky" means "cloud" in Danish.)  Second is a short essay, Influence of Cosmic Rays Upon the Earth's Climate.

Folks, this a big deal.  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, not us.

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."

This will also get the Pentagon involved.  Until the program was shut down by Clinton, a satellite-based particle beam generator was being developed as a space weapon.  The proven cosmic ray-cloud formation connection allows for the development of lower power beam generators to simulate cosmic rays.

A proton-electron charged particle beam from a solar-powered satellite could create cloud cover in a specific area (such as a region suffering from drought) by painting the atmosphere with simulated cosmic rays.  They wouldn't reach the earth or be harmful to people as the depth of atmospheric penetration can be controlled.

Thus any area of the earth could be cooled specifically.  But in the meantime, as Solar Warming described, warming as a global
problem can now be solved – not only for free, but at negative cost.  The solution to global warming will save money.   

As the Svensmark-Christensen experiments showed, the ions created by cosmic rays attract molecules of sulfur dioxide.  The resultant sulfate aerosols act as condensation nuclei for water droplets and cloud formation.

This can be simulated by providing sulfate aerosols directly into the lower stratosphere by having the world's airlines use high-sulfur jet fuel (much cheaper than mandated low-sulfur fuel) at cruise altitude.

Thousands of jetliners flying high over the planet every day using high-sulfur fuel (low-sulfur during ascent and descent) will create a cooler earth.  It's such a perfect solution that, as Solar Warming observes, it will drive human-hating eco-fascists completely nuts.

You've got to hand it to the Danes.  First they enrage Islamic fanatics with their Mohammed cartoons.  Now they are going to enrage enviro fanatics with brilliant science.  Let's raise a glass or two of Carlsberg to them.