Solar System's Path May Have Spurred Ice Ages

ImproperShutdown writes "Space.com reports that a physicist has found a correlation between the amount of cosmic rays reaching the Earth, as it passes through the spiral arms of the Milky Way, and the planet's ice ages over the last billion years. Apparently, as the Solar System passes through the higher density spiral arm regions, it receives more cosmic rays from the higher density of supernovae that have occurred in the region. This larger flux of cosmic rays ionizes the Earth's atmosphere more, which makes it more cloudy and cools down the Earth."

Comments

See, there they go again.

[Snafoo]

Once again our 'scientists' have managed to
misintepret perfectly clear statistical
data by imposing a faulty chain of causality.

Obviously, things are back-to-front. Ice ages
cause changes in the path of the solar system.

Duh.

this could be good...

[skydude_20]

for geeks that is... see since we tend to like sci-fi, space exploration, etc... we just have to let the environuts know about this, then they lobby for us to build massive space structures to shield us from the cosmic rays or generate more... cuz comeon, really, save the environment! stop cosmic rays!