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Apr 3, 2008
Do cosmic rays cause climate change?
Last year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a major report saying that most of the Earth’s warming over the last 50 years has been manmade. However some researchers believe that the observed temperature changes could instead be caused primarily by variations in natural phenomena – including changes to the flux of galactic cosmic rays striking the Earth’s atmosphere. Now, two particle physicists in the UK claim to have shown that there is little evidence that variations in the cosmic ray flux affect Earth’s climate - although a group in the Ukraine believes that such a link can explain long-term temperature trends.
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