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Warmists take a hit - Very Inconvenient !   heres an extract from link referred to by OMG;

Retracing those 14 years, what if physics had functioned as it is supposed to do? What if CLOUD, quickly approved and funded, had verified the Svensmark effect with all the authority of CERN, in the early 2000s. What if the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had done a responsible job, acknowledging the role of the Sun and curtailing the prophecies of catastrophic warming?

For a start there would have no surprise about the “travesty” that global warming has stopped since the mid-1990s, with the Sun becoming sulky. Vast sums might have been saved on misdirected research and technology, and on climate change fests and wheezes of every kind. The world’s poor and their fragile living environment could have had far more useful help than precautions against warming.

And there would have been less time for so many eminent folk from science, politics, industry, finance, the media and the arts to be taken in by man-made climate catastrophe. (In London, for example, from the Royal Society to the National Theatre.) Sadly for them, in the past ten years they’ve crowded with their warmist badges into a Hall of Shame, like bankers before the crash.

But cosmic rays (subatomic particles, mostly protons) don't come just from the sun; they also come from outer space. In fact maybe most of them come from there and not the sun?? Those that do come from the sun come from its solar flares, I'm not sure to what extent the activity of solar flares and sunspots are related, if at all.

Given the gravitational pull of the sun, it wouldn't surprise me if most of its cosmic rays cannot escape, but of those that do, they are but a tiny fraction of the vast amounts of energy and electromagnetic radiation that pours forth from it every second. And which, by comparison, renders carbon dioxide as significant as a pimple of an ant’s butt.

Is there a cosmologist or physicist in the house who could let us know?

I think to overlook the role of the sun (since we sit so close to it and it’s so big) and the cosmos (because it’s all around us) in effecting climate change is very naive.

Just confirmation of what many of us have suspected all along , that " global warming "  was being used by socialist politicians to bleed their tax-payers under the guise of mending the planet .. Ahem , yeah right .

.. ETS ? ... extra tax , stupid !