Cosmic Rays May solve Global Warming Problem

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 10-4-2006 | Roger Highfield

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Cosmic rays may solve global warming problem

By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
(Filed: 04/10/2006)

Cosmic events could help soften the impact of global warming by triggering cloud formations, suggests research published yesterday.

A team of Danish scientists concluded in the Proceedings of the Royal Society that making clouds is plausible, using the Sun's magnetic field.

The Sun has been at its strongest for more than 60 years and a period of high solar activity could be approaching its end. "This would produce a cooling effect that could counter part of the global warming predicted for the next century," said Dr Jens Olaf Pedersen, of the Danish National Space Centre.

advertisement When cosmic rays, high energy particles from distant exploding stars, fall to Earth they knock electrons off atoms in the atmosphere, making them electrically charged, or ionized. The ions form clusters of molecules that can grow into droplets forming low-lying clouds.

More cosmic rays would produce clouds that would increase the rate at which sunlight was reflected away from the planet and so cool it.

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Do you acknowledge that the Medieval Warming Period and the Little Ice Age did, in fact, occur?

Of course they occurred; at least an overwhelming amount of evidence points to the fact that they did.

Of course the warming and cooling experienced during those periods was between .5 and 1.5 degrees celcius. It also changed over a 3-400 year period. We have experienced the 1 degree celcius change in less than a century and are looking at up to 3 degrees over the next. As I have previusly mentioned, it might just be terrible timing that we are combining man-made influences with natural cycles to produce a much greater than natural change.

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And this from a Danish source:

"An essential role for remote stars in everyday weather on Earth has been revealed by an experiment at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen."

"It is already well-established that when cosmic rays, which are high-speed atomic particles originating in exploded stars far away in the Milky Way, penetrate Earth’s atmosphere they produce substantial amounts of ions and release free electrons. Now, results from the Danish experiment show that the released electrons significantly promote the formation of building blocks for cloud condensation nuclei on which water vapour condenses to make clouds."

The complete article can be found here:

http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/physik_astronomie/bericht-71378.html


This makes a lot of sense when we consider what can be seen in a 'cloud chamber' experiment.

[Techster]

Check out post 22 and in particular this paragraph in the source link.

"Interestingly, during the 20th Century, the Sun’s magnetic field which shields Earth from cosmic rays more than doubled, thereby reducing the average influx of cosmic rays. The resulting reduction in cloudiness, especially of low-altitude clouds, may be a significant factor in the global warming Earth has undergone during the last century. However, until now, there has been no experimental evidence of how the causal mechanism linking cosmic rays and cloud formation may work."