{"id":6888,"date":"2011-09-05T09:01:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T13:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=6888"},"modified":"2011-09-02T07:58:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T11:58:15","slug":"why-has-there-been-almost-nothing-in-the-press-about-this-global-warming-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/09\/why-has-there-been-almost-nothing-in-the-press-about-this-global-warming-study","title":{"rendered":"Why has there been almost nothing in the press about this global warming study?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If late novelist and screenwriter Michael Crichton had lived to write a follow-up to <em>State of Fear<\/em>, the plotline might well have gone like this: at a top-secret, state-of-the-art laboratory in Switzerland, scientists from 113 countries\u00a0finally discover the true cause of \u201cglobal warming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, nobody wants to hear what they found.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not fiction and such a study exists &#8212; published by the prestigious\u00a0Organisation Europ\u00e9enne pour la Recherche Nucl\u00e9aire, which employs just under 2,400 full-time employees, as well as some 7,931 scientists and engineers representing 608 universities and research facilities and 113 nationalities &#8212; and runs the\u00a0colossal Large Hadron Collider on the French-Swiss border. Odds are you&#8217;ve heard nothing about their study. What did these highly respected scientists find is causing global warming?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s the sun, stupid,&#8221; writes James Delingpole in the British daily newspaper the <em>Telegraph, <\/em>one of the few media to\u00a0publish the findings. &#8220;More specifically \u2013 as the Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark has long postulated \u2013 it\u2019s the result of cosmic rays which act as a seed for cloud formation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The scientists working on the project are naturally euphoric: this is a major breakthrough which will not only overturn decades of misguided conjecture on so-called Man Made Global Warming but will spare the global economy trillions of dollars which might otherwise have been squandered on utterly pointless efforts to reduce anthropogenic CO2 emissions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But if these findings are so monumental, why has the news media been silent about this discovery?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because the findings are\u00a0profoundly politically incorrect<em>. <\/em>Delingpole\u00a0finds it absolutely fascinating that such an important study has been so completely suppressed &#8212; but he can see the massive political forces at work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars\/?p=2493\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE to read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If late novelist and screenwriter Michael Crichton had lived to write a follow-up to State of Fear, the plotline might well have gone like this: at a top-secret, state-of-the-art laboratory in Switzerland, scientists from 113 countries\u00a0finally discover the true cause of \u201cglobal warming.\u201d However, nobody wants to hear what they found. 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