THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: RealClimate FAIL: Cosmic ray counts support Svensmark's theory

The "real climate scientists" at RealClimate, however, fail to plot a trend line to back up their claim. Plotting a polynomial fit to the same Oulu Neutron Monitor monthly data shows that cosmic ray counts did in fact show a long term declining trend from 1964 to 1997/1998, and a rising trend since, in accordance with the trend in global temperatures which rose to a peak in 1998 and have declined since.

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The Reference Frame: Al Gore has depleted all of his political capital

A vast majority of the world population has heard about "global warming" and has heard about the nonsensical claims that "CO2 is the cause of every weather event". More importantly, the people who are actively interested in these matters know that most of those claims are self-evidently absurd (even the alarmists, except for the most ignorant ones, know so) and even if you could find an example where the influence is worth your thinking, you must be careful about hundreds of disclaimers. And the viewers' knowledge is generally orders of magnitude more advanced and more detailed than Al Gore's knowledge.

Al Gore could have affected the world population when it was completely uninformed about climatology 5 years ago or so. But we live in 2011...

Die Klimazwiebel: Climate Reality Project II

There was only one message, an apocalyptic one, with the respective promise of salvation; sometimes the discourse almost switched into a religious sermon: once we behave climate friendly, there won’t be any storms or other natural disasters anymore.