The unsettling of global warming science

From here:

Last week, 63 scientists from CERN, the unimpeachable European Organization for Nuclear Research, published a paper in the journal Nature that would seem to prove that the sun and not humans is the main “driver” of climate on Earth.

In short, cloud cover is the most important determinant of global warming or cooling. Tiny changes in the percentage of Earth shielded by clouds (or not) can cause a variation in global temperatures of several degrees, down or up. Cosmic rays are the main cause of cloud formation – the more rays from outer space reaching our planet’s atmosphere, the more clouds form and the cooler the surface becomes.

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the CERN team found human CO2 emissions have little or no impact, or at the very least their impact has been greatly overestimated in the computer models global-warming alarmists rely on to show dangerous future climate.

Meanwhile, Al Gore likened those who question the veracity of the anthropogenic global warming theory – and, thus, the 63 CERN scientists – to racists.

And the Anglican Communion Environmental Network, declared that “Anglicans must act” because “Creation is in crisis”. Not, of course, a crisis of too little cloud cover – after all, these Anglicans have found plenty of cloud in which to thrust their heads – but of too much capitalism, the only sin left for a religion that has replaced the dogma of transcendence with that of Marx.