Posted on 08/21/2013 1:56:07 PM PDT by neverdem
Science advances by paradigm shifts. My one-time co-researcher, Nobel Prize winning economist Herb Simon, once explained it to me. The new paradigm begins with a new overall curve. Further research builds upon that curve by mapping the phenomena responsible for fluctuations from the curve. That's the normal scientific process. But establishing a new big curve requires a paradigm shift.
Such a paradigm shift started a decade ago, when Israeli astrophysicist Nir Shaviv and Canadian geologist Jan Veizer published the ground-breaking study that laid out the chief long-term cause of climate change -- cosmic rays. The graph below shows the curve that they discovered. The original is found and explained on Nir Shaviv's blog at http://www.sciencebits.com/ice-ages:
Shaviv had mapped the travels of the solar system through the spiral arms of our galaxy (shown in the top half of the above graph). Veizer had mapped the ice ages of the last 500 billion years (shown, along with the fit to the cosmic ray inflow, in the temperature record in the bottom half of the above graph). What they found is that ice ages occurred when the Earth traveled through the spiral arms of our galaxy, periods when the Earth must have been experiencing high levels of cosmic ray inflow.
Other scientists had been laying the groundwork, but it was Shaviv's graph which caused the paradigm shift. At a time when the anthropogenic global warming paradigm was accepted by almost all scientists, his paper with Veizer was published in a geology journal, geology being the one scientific discipline that had never swallowed the man-centered view of climate change...
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When was the last time Ozone Hole was in a headline?
“When was the last time Ozone Hole was in a headline?”
That’s a terrible way to refer to our President.
GHW Bush referred to Al Gore Jr. as “Ozone because his head is in the clouds” (back in 1992).
Hold on while I go get some paper towels.
“When was the last time Ozone Hole was in a headline?”
That’s a terrible way to refer to our President.
Thank you, MeganC! I needed that!
Nor did they share the usual inflated bounties of cash and grant money experienced by the AGW Warmist scientists.
To me, there is a better analogy. In many primitive and ignorant societies, men believed that extended bad weather was due to their having offended the gods, and sacrificed their most valuable property, virgins, to gain forgiveness. Now, ignorant people want to sacrifice our economies to gain forgiveness of their god, Gaia.
“Brother, can you Paradigm?”
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I don't think so. Folks should better edit what they publish.
HAHAHA!!
Good one!
From farther up the freerepublic.com change:
the National University of Ireland presented this summer at the 19th International Conference on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols suggests that clean air laws put in place in the 1970s and 80s have resulted in an increase in sunlight impacting the surface of the Earth, and thus have increased surface temperatures as a result.
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