Forbush Decreases Presage Diminution of Cloud Nucleation

On rare occasions, “explosions” on the Sun called coronal mass ejections result in a plasma cloud passing the Earth, with the effect that the cosmic rays flux decreases suddenly and remains low for about a week. Such events, with a significant reduction in the cosmic ray flux, are called Forbush decreases, and are ideal to test the link between cosmic rays and clouds. Finding the strongest Forbush decreases and using three independent cloud satellite datasets and one dataset for aerosols, we clearly found a response to Forbush decreases. These results validated the whole chain from solar activity, to cosmic rays, to aerosols (CCN), and finally to clouds, in Earth’s atmosphere (Svensmark et al 2009, Svensmark et al. 2016).

CO2 GOOD IN FUEL GOOD IN AIR

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed;
and Third, it is accepted as self-evident.” (Schopenhauer)

Human creativity has discovered, engineered and distributed energy formerly locked up in sequestered mineral depositions and enabled the world to enter a time of global health and prosperity. Those energy sources, coal, gas and oil are natural condensates of floral and marine biota preserved for beneficial desequestration by mankind.

We are 7.8 billion and the billion or so that have yet to achieve the generally high and healthy living standard that is the norm await the infrastructure investment that will permit them to locate, harness and distribute the fossil fuels that would be denied them in the name of  a first world mischaracterization of CO2 as an atmospheric negative.

COSMIC RAY INFLUENCE ON  EARTH GLOBAL MEAN TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION  IS TRUE AND RENDERS THE ROLE OF CO2 AS NEGLIGIBLE


... a microphysical mechanism involving cosmic rays and clouds is operating in the Earth’s atmosphere... this mechanism has the potential to explain a significant part of the observed climate variability in relation to solar activity

 ...research into the solar effect on climate will add significantly to understanding in this area.

Words of  : Henrik Svensmark (born 1958) is a physicist and a senior researcher in the Astrophysics and Atmospheric Physics Division of the National Space Institute (DTU Space) in Lyngby, Denmark. In 1987, he obtained a PhD from the Technical University of Denmark and has held
postdoctoral positions in physics at three other organizations: the University of California,
Berkeley, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, and the Niels Bohr Institute. Henrik
Svensmark presently leads the Sun–Climate Research group at DTU Space.

This modest declaration is reasonable and conservative but I having reviewed the work of Svensmart and his colleague Nir Shaviv:
Professor Nir J. Shaviv is a member of the Racah Institute of Physics in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem whose research interests cover a wide range of topics in astrophysics. Most are related to the application of fluid dynamics, radiation transfer or high energy physics to a wide range of objects – from stars and compact objects to galaxies and the early universe. His studies on the possible relationships between cosmic rays’ intensity and the Earth’s climate, and the Milky Way’s Spiral Arms and Ice Age Epochs on Earth were widely echoed in the scientific literature, as well as in the general press.”

have concluded that their theory is correct and am urging that it be acknowledged to be so.