Climate change -- research suggests it is not a swindle
Date: Thursday, April 03, 2008 @ 23:02:39 GMT Topic: General
New research has dealt a blow to the skeptics who argue that climate
change is all due to cosmic rays rather than to man-made greenhouse
gases. The new evidence shows no reliable connection between the cosmic
ray intensity and cloud cover.
Lauded and criticised for
offering a possible way out of the dangers of man made climate change,
UK TV Channel 4's programme "The Great Global Warming Swindle",
broadcast in 2007, suggested that global warming is due to a decrease
in cosmic rays over the last hundred years.
This would cause a decrease in the production of low clouds
allowing more heat from the sun to warm the Earth and cause global
warming.
Research published today, Thursday 3 April, in the Institute of Physics' Environmental Research Letters
shows how a team from Lancaster and Durham Universities sought a means
to prove the correlation between the ionizing cosmic rays and the
production of low cloud cover.
Previous research had shown a possible hint of such a correlation,
using the results of the International Satellite Cloud Climatology
Project, and this had been used to propose that global warming was all
down to cosmic rays. ... More: http://www.physorg.com/news126418636.html
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