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Alternative View of Global Warming

"Climate change is inevitable. It always has been. And it's mostly due to the sun's activity. After becoming much more active during the 20th century, the sun now stands at a high but roughly level state of activity. Solar physicists warn of possible global cooling should the sun revert to the lazier mood it was in during the Little Ice Age 300 years ago.

Climate history and related archeology give solid support to the solar hypothesis. The 20th century episode, or Modern Warming, was just the latest in a long string of similar events produced by a hyperactive sun, of which the last was the Medieval Warming. The Chinese population doubled then, while in Europe the Vikings and cathedral-builders prospered.

What does the Intergovernmental Panel do with such emphatic evidence for an alternation of warm nad cold periods, linked to solar activity and going on long before human industry was a possible factor? Less than nothing. After all you can't tax the sun.

Disdain for the sun goes with a failure by the self-appointed greenhouse experts to keep up with inconvenient discoveries about how the solar variations control the climate. Ten years ago Henrik Svensmark in Copenhagen illustrated from compilations of weather satelite data that cloudiness varies according to how many atomic particles are coming in from exploded stars. The sun's magnetic field bats away many of the cosmic rays, therefore it's intensification during the 20th century meant fewer cosmic rays, fewer clouds, and a warmer world. The opposite happened during the Little Ice Age 300 years ago.

And here's another awkward question for the "experts": the East Antarctic isn't getting warmer - it's getting colder, and sea ice in the region has grown by 8 per cent.

To get the full picture on climate change read "The Chilling Stars", published by Icon."

Nigel Calder

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