Friends of Science Society Position Statement
Our goal is to educate the public about climate science and through them bring pressure to bear on governments to engage in public debates on the scientific merits of the hypothesis of human induced global warming and the various policies that intend to address the issue.
While FoS does not do any original scientific research, it draws on the worldwide body of work by scientists in all fields relating to global climate change.
It is our opinion that the Sun is the main direct and indirect driver of climate change.
Variations in solar activity and cosmic rays correlate to temperature much better than CO2. This may be because an electro-magnetically active sun diverts cosmic rays from hitting the atmosphere. Cosmic rays have been shown experimentally to assist in cloud formation. Fewer cosmic rays result in reduced low cloud cover, which allows more sunlight to warm the Earth’s surface.
The United Nations - IPCC reports have been misrepresented by the nonscientific IPCC bureaucrats in preparing the Summary-for-Policy-Makers. Recent research casts doubt on historical data used by the IPCC. Urban effects have contaminated surface temperature data. Some measured CO2 levels of the past 180 years appear to be in excess of present levels.
Current climate computer models are unsuitable for making reliable climate forecasts mainly because they assume without justification that CO2 is the major driver of climate. The cosmic ray effects on clouds are ignored. The input assumptions are adjusted to make the temperature projections match recent temperature trends, thereby grossly exagerating the effects of CO2 on the climate. The models, in response to CO2, predict a distinctive temperature profile in the atmosphere, which is totally absent from the observational record.
SIX THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE:
- The earth is cooling. Click here.
- The Sun causes climate change. Click here.
- Al Gore was wrong about CO2. Click here.
- Violent weather isn’t getting worse. Click here.
- It’s been hotter. Click here.
- Climate computer models are proven wrong. Click here.
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