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Posts filed under: climatology

Cosmic rays and global warming

February 28th, 2007, under , ,

A new study looking at global temperature changes and the birth of stars in our universe has come to suggest that climate change may be driven by cosmic ray intensities. Looking at historical data, researchers suggest that changes in the Sun’s magnetic field, combined with our solar system’s position as it travels around the galaxy, affect the amount of cosmic rays that reach Earth’s atmosphere, which in turn influences cloud formation (more rays equals more clouds), which in turn influences global temperatures.



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