re: #284 LudwigVanQuixote

“To be absolutely 100% clear the basic science of AGW is settled.”

Sorry, not this week:

Physicist Qing-Bin Lu just published a peer-reviewed paper with Elsevier’s “Physic Reports” along with his data showing that Chlorofluorocabons in tandem with cosmic rays have been causing the recent heating, and not CO2.

Best quote of his paper:

“Most remarkably, the total amount of CFCs, ozone-depleting molecules that are well-known greenhouse gases, has decreased around 2000,” Lu said. “Correspondingly, the global surface temperature has also dropped. In striking contrast, the CO2 level has kept rising since 1850 and now is at its largest growth rate.”

Dutch science publisher Elsevier would not publish this without much thought and review. The notion that anything is settled is, well, unscientific.