Cosmic Mist

Lubos Motl has a new post up touting the theory that Cosmic Ray Flux could be a major climate driver of more importance than CO2. The basic idea is that cosmic rays serve as condensation nuclei in the atmosphere, producing high clouds that reflect away some of the Solar radiation. The idea is not new, but Shariv's paper claims evidence of correlation through studies of iron meteorites, which contain interesting signatures supposedly due to the cosmic ray flux they were exposed to in the sixty days or so before coming to Earth.

Not everybody finds this article quite as convincing as our conservative string theorist. Stefan Rahmstorf, David Archer, Denton S. Ebel, Otto Eugster, Jean Jouzel, Douglas Maraun, Urs Neu, Gavin A. Schmidt, Jeff Severinghaus, Andrew J. Weaver and Jim Zachos present a pretty good slapdown here.

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  1. Anonymous10:42 PM

    hey CIP, see what global warming really is all about
    http://www.encyclopediadramatica.../ Global_warming

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