Sometimes it’s amazing to see the horrendous writing, bad logic, and outright falsehoods that pass for “news” in the strange, closed universe of the right wing, and here’s a perfect example by Chriss W. Street at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government website: Nature Journal of Science Discredits Man-made Global Warming - Big Government.

Complete with a Pavlovian photo of Al Gore, even though he has nothing to do with the article.

Nature Journal of Science, ranked as the world’s most cited scientific periodical, has just published the definitive study on Global Warming that proves the dominant controller of temperatures in the Earth’s atmosphere is due to galactic cosmic rays and the sun, rather than by man. One of the report’s authors, Professor Jyrki Kauppinen, summed up his conclusions regarding the potential for man-made Global Warming: “I think it is such a blatant falsification.”

That’s just the first paragraph, and if you can make it through the mangled grammar, the amount of disinformation it contains is impressive.

Nature Journal of Science…

The name of this scientific journal is “Nature.” One word. Not “Nature Journal of Science.” Mr. Street apparently saw the subheading on Nature’s website and just assumed it was the full name of the publication. I guess it’s an understandable mistake if you loathe science and have no experience with reading scientific journals.

…the definitive study on Global Warming…

Now we’re getting into the realm of pure idiocy. The paper’s title is “Role of sulphuric acid, ammonia and galactic cosmic rays in atmospheric aerosol nucleation.” Catchy, I know, but notice — it doesn’t mention global warming. And if you actually read the paper, you’ll discover that it has nothing to say about global warming at all. Rather, it’s a report on an experiment that showed cosmic rays can cause “nucleation,” in tiny amounts. More on this later.

…proves the dominant controller of temperatures in the Earth’s atmosphere is due to galactic cosmic rays and the sun, rather than by man.

And now we’ve reached the Land of Outright Lies, because the study proves absolutely nothing of the sort. In fact, it comes to no conclusion at all about “the dominant controller of temperature.” Mr. Street has pulled this statement fully formed out of his own nether orifice. It’s 100% false.

The CERN experiment showed that it’s possible for cosmic rays to cause nucleation of particles in the atmosphere, which could potentially influence cloud formation. But the paper also states very clearly that the amount of nucleation their experiment produced was very small, and that they do not know how much nucleation would be required to actually seed clouds.

In short, this study comes to no conclusions about atmospheric temperature or man’s effect on global warming. It doesn’t even mention these subjects. Street’s claim is simply wrong.

Remember, this is just the first paragraph. Street ends his ridiculous introduction by inventing an imaginary author for the CERN paper:

One of the report’s authors, Professor Jyrki Kauppinen…

Here’s a screenshot of the complete list of authors of the CERN study:

You will not find “Jyrki Kauppinen” in that list.

The rest of the article is just as horrible. One of the very worst examples of right wing anti-science propaganda I’ve ever seen.

Will Andrew Breitbart correct some of these errors and falsehoods? I hope you don’t plan on holding your breath.