Anthony Watts gets cosmic rays back to front - and worse

Sou

I've just written about another article at WUWT, in which Anthony Watts wrote some stuff that suggests he:

1. doesn't understand the cosmic ray hypothesis
2. doesn't know that the weaker sun would mean more cloud cover, not less
3. doesn't "believe in" the greenhouse effect.

He's promoted an article by greenhouse effect denier and arch mathturbator, Dan Pangburn (who visited HotWhopper once, promoting his tortuous hypothesis).

What he was writing about was a new cosmic ray paper. He should have spent some time learning what the hypothesis is, and what it means when there's less energy coming from the sun.

Here's the link to the HW blog article: Anthony Watts, cosmic rays, Hockey Schtick and Dan Pangburn

Ceist

Hi Sou 
And here's a new paper just published this month in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
which shows Cosmic Rays are a bit of a fizzer....

Excerpt:

"There is a significant correlation only between cosmic ray (CR) intensity (and sunspot number (SSN)) and the cloud cover of the types cirrus and stratus. This effect is mainly confined to the CR intensity minimum during the epoch around 1990, when the SSN was at its maximum.This fact, together with the present study of the correlation of LSCC with our measured CR intensity, shows that there is no firm evidence for a significant contribution of CR induced ionization to the local (or, indeed, Global) cloud cover.

Pressure effects are the preferred cause of the cloud cover changes. A consequence is that there is no evidence favouring a contribution of CR to the Global Warming problem. Our analysis shows that the LS data are consistent with the Gas Laws for a stable mass of atmosphere."

Relevance of long term time – Series of atmospheric parameters at a mountain observatory to models for climate change

Ari_Jokimaki

There's another new cosmic ray paper out by Svensmark, Shaviv and others: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160825113235.htm

Ceist

Looks like it's more of this:

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/FittingAnElephant/

citizenschallenge

Ari, did you notice that sidebar item?  Yet another surprising cascading consequences.
The slow but inexorable slide into a chaotic climate regime.

Sometimes I fear it's little wonder so many wrap themselves in fantasy, and remain willfully uninformed and apathetic - the reality of what's a foot is too horrifying for most to face.

A strange thing happened in the stratosphere

September 2, 2016 | NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Summary:
High above Earth's tropics, a pattern of winds changed recently in a way that scientists had never seen in more than 60 years of consistent measurements.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160902142132.htm
The pattern never changed (observed since '52) -- until late 2015. As the year came to a close, winds from the west neared the end of their typical descent. The regular pattern held that weaker easterly winds would soon replace them. But then the westerlies appeared to move upwards and block the downward movement of the easterlies. This new pattern held for nearly half a year, and by July 2016 the old regime seemed to resume. ...

With this disruption now documented, Newman and colleagues are currently focused on studying both its causes and potential implications. They have two hypotheses for what could have triggered it -- the particularly strong El Niño in 2015-16 or the long-term trend of rising global temperatures. Newman said the scientists are conducting further research now to figure out if the event was a "black swan," a once-in-a-generation event, or a "canary in the coal mine," a shift with unforeseen circumstances, caused by climate change.