The computer models we use to predict climate, aren’t scientific. They don’t include the effects of ocean currents, wind patterns or clouds. Even though these change our climate.
One small example. The icy Humboldt Current and the warm El Nino flow off Peru’s coast. A few times in a century the Humboldt changes its path, and the El Nino flows further south along the 1200-mile desert strip. Its warmer water kills off cold-water fish, and starves millions of sea birds. But it also makes rain clouds. So farmers grow fine crops on desert land!
Henrik Svensmark and more than fifty CERN scientists in Switzerland may change climate prediction for ever. They’re testing how energy in cosmic plasma affects the earth. Svensmark and company suspect that cosmic currents make clouds that keep earth cool. It’s super hot plasma from the sun that burns us.
If CERN proves the sun’s behind global warming, our climate models will have to look at MUCH more than carbon footprints.
Reference
1. Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder, “The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change”, 2007.
2. Project CLOUD , CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2006.
