Sun shunned - Climate Change: The Facts - page 45

seventeen years has long been speculated to be connected to the recently weakened sun's
magnetic behavior.
Finally, the IPCC asserts that studies comparing sun-like stars to the sun are flawed
because the sun has been proven to exhibit atypical variations in magnetic field and
brightness. Yet regarding an implication that the sun exhibits a 'normal' level of magnetic
activity as compared to the Kepler sample of sun-like stars, the latest paper from the
NASA's Kepler mission 31 by Gibor Basri, Lucianne Walkowicz and Ansgar Reiners
asserts:
We find no empirical evidence in the Kepler data for an excess of young active solar-type stars near us, nor is the sun
unusually photometrically quiet compared to its neighbors. That is perhaps not surprising, given similar results for Ca II
(T. Henry et al . 1996) … There have been previous suggestions that the sun might be photometrically quieter than the
bulk of similar stars … although they were tentative. 32
The paper by Basri et al. in fact shows that the evidence from the study of sun-like stars
suggests a much larger amplitude of solar light output variations than that which has been
estimated for our own sun from various satellite projects to date.
In conclusion, the IPCC has been practicing 'para-science' in that, while it affects the
appearance of practicing science, it has violated longheld scientific norms and practices of
fullyandaccuratelyrepresentingthecurrentstateofscientificknowledge,andofproposing
and testing alternative hypotheses in order to extend knowledge. 33
Instead, the IPCC and its authors have acted out of prejudice in a manner that has
misled both politicians and a largely unsuspecting public.
As a redress, I have spelled out here several of the IPCC's numerous, specific and
grievous errors in science. Each error has the effect of minimising the role of the sun and
thereby supporting the IPCC's unsupportable claim to be '95 per cent confident' that most
of the 0.7°C global warming since 1950 was manmade. That assertion is made without
evidence. The assertion is also self-serving, in that the IPCC depends on it for its own
continued existence.
Contrary to reports of a '97 per cent consensus', the 2014 paper by Legates et al.
demonstrated that only 0.5 per cent of the abstracts of 11,944 scientific papers on
climate-related topics published over the 21 years from 1991-2011 had explicitly stated an
opinion that more than half of the global warming since 1950 had been caused by human
emissions of CO 2 and other greenhouse gases. 34 The overwhelming majority of scientists
in climate and related fields, therefore, remain commendably open to the possibility that
some other influence—such as the sun—may be the true primum mobile of the Earth's
climate.