IPCC's startling conclusion: Its the Sun, stupid.

John Hinderacker,  at Power Line,  gives us this startling U.N. admission as relates to global warming.  In a word,  it has more to do with the activity of the Sun than any other single function:  

Hinderacker:   

So that is the admission that was leaked yesterday. The current draft of the IPCC report says:

Many empirical relationships have been reported between GCR or cosmogenic isotope archives and some aspects of the climate system (e.g., Bond et al., 2001; Dengel et al., 2009; Ram and Stolz, 1999). The forcing from changes in total solar irradiance alone does not seem to account for these observations, implying the existence of an amplifying mechanism such as the hypothesized GCR-cloud link. We focus here on observed relationships between GCR and aerosol and cloud properties.

So the IPCC, at the moment at least, stands ready to admit that the evidence supports a much larger role for solar activity, and a correspondingly much smaller role for CO2. Of course, other sections of the report implicitly contradict this admission. Watts Up With That has all the details on the controversy. I am not sure I agree with those who say this represents the death knell for climate alarmism, but it certainly does illustrate how flimsy the “science” underlying the hysterical position is. >>>>  End of quote.