'No sun link' to climate change (BBC)

By Richard Black
BBC Environment Correspondent

A new scientific study concludes that changes in the Sun's output cannot be causing modern-day climate change.

It shows that for the last 20 years, the Sun's output has declined, yet temperatures on Earth have risen.

It also shows that modern temperatures are not determined by the Sun's effect on cosmic rays, as has been claimed.
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Dr Lockwood initiated the study partially in response to the TV documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, broadcast on Britain's Channel Four earlier this year, which featured the cosmic ray hypothesis.

"All the graphs they showed stopped in about 1980, and I knew why, because things diverged after that," he told the BBC News website.
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because things diverged after that,"

That says everything right there. These particular global warming deniers weren't really sceptical. They were outright frauds. They ignored their own evidence that contradicted their pet theory.

And from The Independent's take on the story.....

Dr Lockwood said he was outraged when he saw the documentary, because of the way the programme-makers used graphs of temperature rises and sunspot cycles that were cut off in the 1980s, when the two trends went in the opposite direction.

"The trouble is that the theory of solar activity and climate was being misappropriated to apply to modern-day warming. The sceptics were taking perfectly good science and bringing it into disrespect," Dr Lockwood said.

The Royal Society said yesterday: "There is a small minority which is seeking to confuse the public on the causes of climate change. They are often misrepresenting the science, when the reality is that the evidence is getting stronger every day."

What is the valid relationship between Global Warming and Cosmic rays (very very tiny and relatively rare) compared to IR (infrared) and UV (ultra violet -- much of which shifts to IR upon contact with the air)?

It is the IR components of the Sun that cause heating -- not Cosmic rays. A valid study would have to compare heating with the amount of IR and UV hitting the earth. Which I think have been increasing from satellite data.

These folks have to know this, don't they?

That's IT!

waiting now for the next wave of mouthbreathing climate change deniers to use that as an argument.