{"id":405,"date":"2007-02-12T13:24:17","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T18:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=405"},"modified":"2007-03-19T20:15:26","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T01:15:26","slug":"nigel-calder-in-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/02\/nigel-calder-in-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Calder in the Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As a prelude to a new book, Nigel Calder (who was the editor of New Scientist for four years in the 1960s) has written an op-ed for the Times (UK)<\/a> basically recapitulating the hype over the Svensmark cosmic ray\/climate experiments we reported on a couple of month ago (see Taking Cosmic Rays for a spin<\/a>). At the time we pointed out that while the experiments were potentially of interest, they are a long way from actually demonstrating an influence of cosmic rays on the real world climate, and in no way justify the hyperbole that Svensmark and colleagues put into their press releases and more ‘popular’ pieces. Even if the evidence for solar forcing were legitimate, any bizarre calculus that takes evidence for solar forcing of climate as evidence against greenhouse gases for current climate change is simply wrong. Whether cosmic rays are correlated with climate or not, they have been regularly measured by the neutron monitor at Climax Station (Colorado)<\/a> since 1953 and show no long term trend. No trend = no explanation for current changes. <\/p>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a prelude to a new book, Nigel Calder (who was the editor of New Scientist for four years in the 1960s) has written an op-ed for the Times (UK) basically recapitulating the hype over the Svensmark cosmic ray\/climate experiments we reported on a couple of month ago (see Taking Cosmic Rays for a spin). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,26,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-climate-science","category-rc-forum","category-sun-earth-connections","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t