Svensmark: Cosmoclimatology Cosmoclimatology: a
attention to an overlooked mechanism of climate change: clouds seeded by cosmic rays. Changes in the intensity of galactic cosmic rays alter the Earth’s cloudiness. A recent experiment has shown how electrons liberated by cosmic rays assist in making aerosols, the building blocks of cloud condensati...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.167.103 http://www.phys.uu.nl/%7Envdelden/Svensmark.pdf |
| Summary: | attention to an overlooked mechanism of climate change: clouds seeded by cosmic rays. Changes in the intensity of galactic cosmic rays alter the Earth’s cloudiness. A recent experiment has shown how electrons liberated by cosmic rays assist in making aerosols, the building blocks of cloud condensation nuclei, while anomalous climatic trends in Antarctica confirm the role of clouds in helping to drive climate change. Variations in the cosmic-ray influx due to solar magnetic activity account well for climatic fluctuations |
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