Scottish Sceptic

When you are travelling along a motorway, most people don’t stop to worry whether their handbrake is working … why would they. Similarly, when the global warming bandwagon was rolling merryly along, why would they consider what would happen when it went into reverse? When all the world is listening, how can you envisage turning from the darling of the media into its demon? Continue reading →

We are now seeing an increasing number of newsmedia carrying the heliocentric view of climate as proposed by Svensmark (example). This currently leading the pack, but coming close behind is the continuing dissection of hurricane Irene and massive hype that preceded this storm.
Then the next story is one about using soot emissions as a “quick fix to climate“, then “Green technology accelerates warming“. The “Aliens may kill us because of warming“, and there is still “Al Gore’s rant about global warmers being racists“, with others like Global warming agenda to hit living standards‎.
In short, there isn’t one story speaking positively about cutting CO2, most are either ambiguous or highly critical and it’s really being treated as a bit of a jokey topic.
There’s a point at high tide where all the flotsam and jetsam brought in by the tide, gets dumped as the water starts going the other way. I think this is what we are seeing!

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Data covering 1 June to 29 August show that the average temperature was 11.8C, compared with an average of 12.8C last year. (Scotsman)
UK summer the coolest for 18 years Met Office says average temperature was 13.6C (Guardian)
ONE of our coldest summers ever has been followed by the coldest August in 25 years.
Following an “unspectacular summer” of the coldest June in nearly 40 years and the coldest July in 50 years, this month is now one of the coldest since records began in 1851.(Irish Independent)

I knew it was cold!

Henrik Svensmark: The Cloud Mystery (1 of 6 = ~1hr)

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Short animation – the Cosmic Climate Connection

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It seemed paradoxical to me the first time I worked it out , but it is a truth that wet air is less dense than dry air. Yes, if you wet air, it gets less heavy.  For anyone that has fallen in a pool of water or got drenched in the rain, we are used to wet things being much heavier, but honestly

WET AIR IS LIGHTER! Continue reading →

Just some thoughts on Cosmic rays, CO2 and clouds.
Around half the heat of the sun transferred to the earth’s surface leaves as evaporation. That latent heat cannot be lost until that water is condensed in those fluffy things in the air – which is the primary transportation mechanism for around half the solar heat hitting the earth. Continue reading →

Just how much cosmic rays affect cloud formation has, however, remained elusive. A team at CERN, led by Jasper Kirkby, therefore decided to recreate both the solar cycle and the atmosphere in a lab. Their “cosmic rays” are generated by one of CERN’s particle accelerators. To simulate the atmosphere, they have built a special cloud chamber of their own, with the air manufactured from scratch, using liquid nitrogen and oxygen together with precise amounts of trace compounds, including sulphuric acid and ammonia.
…Atmospheric physics is, of course, notoriously complex. And it would be foolish to start reprogramming all the models on the basis of this single result. But it does suggest that a closer look is needed into what is going on in the real atmosphere. Clearly, there is life in the old cloud chamber yet. (Economist)

Comment
I’m starting to see a pattern: climate models need to change, … or in simple language: THEY ARE WRONG.
That seems to be the consensus that is developing. Present climate models are wrong, which means that the predictions of the models are wrong. Which means that all that money has been spent…. etc.

Understandably, then, sceptics are getting pretty excited by a paper published in Nature magazine this week in which scientists at CERN, the nuclear research laboratory near Geneva, have shown that radiation from space can affect the way clouds form in our atmosphere – and in turn – perhaps – affecting temperatures on the ground  (Mail)

Well I really can’t fault the article. Fair, proportionate, covering the details whilst giving the big picture. Obviously disappointing that the eco-zealots got in first – but it’s hardly the Mail’s fault they aren’t on the warmist list of propaganda outlets.