"No link" between sun activity and global warming
Looks like it is us, after all.
A popular theory among global warming skeptics is that while the climate may be changing, it's caused by fluctuations in solar radiation, and has nothing to do with humans or greenhouse gases. Unhappily for folks who have bought into that idea, scientists at Lancaster University in the UK have just published a study showing conclusively that, for the last 20 years at least, there's been no connection between solar activity and temperature change.
The researchers began their work in response to the work of Danish scientist Henrik Svensmark, who claimed that the effect of solar winds on cosmic rays affected cloud cover on Earth and ultimately temperature, and whose theory was featured in the controversial documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle." However, the Lancaster University study found no meaningful correlation between the sun and climate change.
It'll be interesting to see what the climate change deniers come up with next in their increasingly desperate attempts to prove that global warming isn't our problem - faulty thermometers? invisible volcanoes? the devil's space heater?
Come on folks, time to admit it - we broke the damn planet, and for our own sake, we better try to fix it.
via [BBC News]
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