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Why is AGW Theory Like a Vampire?
Because it needs to be protected from the Sun! The scientists at the Real Climate (RC) weblog echo-chamber have recently launched another attack on the work of Nicola Scafetta. Scafetta does the unforgivable in the eyes of politically motivated climate alarmists and publishes peer reviewed papers claiming that the influence of the Sun on climate has been underestimated. The recent offending paper by Scafetta and Willson was blogged by CRN here.
RC’s Benestad and Schmidt (let’s call them ‘BS’ for shortness!) have recently published a paper in JGR. (Benestad, R. E., and G. A. Schmidt (2009), Solar trends and global warming, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D14101, doi:10.1029/2008JD011639).
Peer review is often only cursory, and Scafetta has responded via Roger Pielke Sr’s Climate Science weblog, in advance of his comment on the BS paper being published via the peer review process, which will take several months. Now, you just know that when an RC scientist uses the word ‘robust’ that it just ain’t so. Indeed, BS used the word ‘robust’ and its derivatives no less than 18 times. BS have been invited to respond to Scafetta’s comments by Roger Pielke Sr.
Meanwhile, the truth is that the Sun-Climate link is poorly understood. Even the IPCC rate the level of scientific understanding (LOSU) of Solar Irradiance as ‘Low’ and the LOSU for other Solar factors is even lower. However, there are those who don’t want the solar influence to be understood in any way that detracts from AG alarmism and ‘magical’ climate policy solutions. Tough!