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Thread #139993   Message #3215355
Posted By: Jack the Sailor
30-Aug-11 - 02:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: Global Warming- CERN says not man-made
Subject: RE: BS: Global Warming- CERN says not man-made
did someone say to "read Nature?"

The article on their website is a far cry form the silly claim in the title of this thread.

This is nature's headline.
Cloud formation may be linked to cosmic rays

Other key passages follow.

"I think it's an incredibly worthwhile and overdue experiment," says Piers Forster, a climatologist at the University of Leeds, UK, who studied the link between cosmic rays and climate for the latest scientific assessment by the International Panel on Climate Change. But for now at least, he says that the experiment "probably raises more questions than it answers".

But, Kirkby adds, those particles are far too small to serve as seeds for clouds. "At the moment, it actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it's a very important first step," he says.