Update: From a comment (by Anthony Watts?) here:
REPLY: It seems they looked at the wrong particles. This is the telling quote:
“For example; sometimes the Sun ‘burps’ - it throws out a huge burst of charged particles,” he explained to BBC News.
“So we looked to see whether cloud cover increased after one of these bursts of rays from the Sun; we saw nothing.”
Of course he likely wouldn’t. Cosmic rays are orders of magnitude more energetic than sun driven partcles. Svensmark’s theory is about Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR), not protons or other sun emanated particles which are typically lower in energy.
Svensmark said as a quote: “Terry Sloan has simply failed to understand how cosmic rays work on clouds”
We’ll see how it shakes out.
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Absolutely no technical information shown here!
Evaluating climate effects over 20 years and in isolation from all other factors is hardly scientific.
This is just another BS political shot.
Well, then, let's turn off the sun and go home.
Agree with billm -- BS politics through and through.
I mentioned this article to Anthony Watts on his blog, and he replied to my comment:
http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/how-not-to-measure-temperature-part-55/#comment-10337
This is a better link.
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