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I hesitated posting this because I heard the squabble that’s gone on for the past week.
It’s, I know, another study but the more information the better. Right?
A new scientific study concludes that changes in the Sun’s output cannot be causing modern-day climate change.
It shows that for the last 20 years, the Sun’s output has declined, yet temperatures on Earth have risen.It also shows that modern temperatures are not determined by the Sun’s effect on cosmic rays, as has been claimed.
Writing in the Royal Society’s journal Proceedings A, the researchers say cosmic rays may have affected climate in the past, but not the present.
“This should settle the debate,” said Mike Lockwood from the UK’s Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, who carried out the new analysis together with Claus Froehlich from the World Radiation Center in Switzerland.
Dr Lockwood initiated the study partially in response to the TV documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, broadcast on Britain’s Channel Four earlier this year, which featured the cosmic ray hypothesis.
Big Mo Says:
July 11th, 2007 at 10:10 amVisit Big Mo
Your hair-pulling emoticon is perfect, because this statement from the article makes absolutely no sense:
“Writing in the Royal Society’s journal Proceedings A, the researchers say cosmic rays may have affected climate in the past, but not the present.”
Huh?!?
So, uh, the big ol’ sun, which we have no control over, may have affected our climate in the past, but it has no effect on it now? And this new study SETTLES the matter?
Pshaw.
I agree:
Ayschlay Says:
July 11th, 2007 at 10:19 amVisit Ayschlay
“Writing in the Royal Society’s journal Proceedings A, the researchers say cosmic rays may have affected climate in the past, but not the present.”
I think this line is just a poor way of stating one of the conclusions. According to rest of the BBC story, the argument is that the sun’s cosmic rays vary in intensity over time, and that we’re in a time of decreased cosmic rays, ergo, it’s hard to blame dramatically rising earth temperatures on the sun.
Big Mo Says:
July 11th, 2007 at 11:07 amVisit Big Mo
Now that makes more sense.
Still, another group of scientists would say otherwise, that their study says the opposite. So the hair-pulling emoticon still works.