Well ok; lemme see if I’ve got this right... Aside from the gratuitious reference to climate(which is one of the keywords necessary to assure pulling down some grant bucks), these guys are setting up multi-million dollar toys under the ice to determine where neutrinos etc are coming from. Why? So we can shoot back???
Interesting, it’s actually about the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Neutrinos are *not* cosmic rays, the writer of the piece doesn’t seem to know that. This is the third or fourth major neutrino detector experiment, the first one was in an old mine tunnel in one of the Dakotas. It didn’t pick up the predicted neutrino stream from the Sun. Next, decades later, the Japanese built one in a tank of amazingly purified water, and that led to results that didn’t nullify the Standard Model, because like the sleight-of-hand masters they are, the results were doctored to make them seem to fit. Somewhere in there was another detection experiment, I think it was it Italy (?). Dunno. And now this one. The problem for these detectors is, the background level of neutrinos — the amount that would be expected from all distant sources — has been all that’s been picked up, whereas the neutrino stream from the Sun should be swamping the detectors, and it isn’t.