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Cosmic Rays and Global Warming
Overly Critical Guy writes "The former editor of New Scientist has written an article in the TimesOnline suggesting that cosmic rays may affect global climate. The author criticizes the UN's recent global warming report, noting several underreported trends it doesn't account for, such as increasing sea-ice in the Southern Ocean. He describes an experiment by Henrik Svensmark showing a relation between atmospheric cloudiness and atomic particles coming in from exploded stars. In the basement of the Danish National Space Center in 2005, Svensmark's team showed that electrons from cosmic rays caused cloud condensation. Svensmark's scenario apparently predicts several unexplained temperature trends from the warmer trend of the 20th century to the temporary drop in the 1970s, attributed to changes in the sun's magnetic field affecting the amount of cosmic rays entering the atmosphere."
LOL Well, You're obviously a non-scientist yourself, as your willingness to resort to authority argument clearly demonstrates.
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Thirty years ago they were calling for an Ice Age.
Si vis pacem, para bellum! For evil to succeed good men need only do nothing!
RealClimate.org is nothing more than DailyKos for the science community.
Everything on it is politized and there is no hint of an open discussion, just a wide belief in an open and shut case from the dooomsday advocates.
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Why are you posting it again?
Ben Hocking
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I also seem to recall hearing that cow canibalism is what's causing "Mad Cow" disease.
You're recalling incorrectly.
"Mad Cow" disease (along with its other variants, like the kind we get naturally, or the type that shows up in wild hoofstock like deer and elk) is caused by prions. These occur naturally. When an infected cow's neural material makes its way into the feed of other cows, there is a chance that the other cow could wind up with the disease. Just like there is a chance of a cow sick from a virus or bacterial infection passing it along to other cattle. You're confusing the cause of a disease with one of the means by which it's spread. Two totally different things.
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