With respect to “Climate Change”, this website and my contribution to the discussion focuses on the data. I have a standing request/challenge to anyone (scientist or not) to provide an empirical Temperature/CO2 data set that shows CO2 driving the climate on any statistically significant historical time scale. Scientific proof requires empirical data. The Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) theory does not have that empirical data (because that data does not exist).

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Solar Cycles – Coming GSM

OPS-21 This is a very important post. The “Global Warming” alarmist crowd has deliberately downplayed the radiative forcings associated with solar activity (direct and indirect (ocean cycles, cosmic ray intensification, solar wind fluctuations, etc.)) because they don’t fit their CO2 doomsday narrative. Mother Nature didn’t suddenly stop using the sun as the primary climate driver. The coming Grand Solar Minimum (GSM) will have profound effects on our society and the worst of those consequences are only a few years away. Yet our governments continue to waste huge capital resources on a non-existent problem, a century away. The only “reality” where CO2 increases translate into catastrophic warming is the virtual reality spewed out by the IPCC’s unsubstantiated computer models. CO2 simply does not show up as primary climate driver in the historical climate data. Yet miraculously, CO2 is the only significant driver in the computer models (refer back to OPS-19 and OPS-20 for a little more detail). Ignoring the coming GSM is a very grave mistake and the consequences will “very likely” (to use IPCC nomenclature) be devastating.

SOlar Radiation Climate Experiment (SORCE) – Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) Data
V. V. Zharkova et al – Heartbeat of the Sun from Principal Component Analysis