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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Solar influence on Climate ?

Could it be?
The sun influences our Climate?
Maybe so ...

Climate change | Bubbling up | Economist.com:

Oct 26th 2006
From The Economist print edition
A new experiment to test the role of cosmic rays in global warming

SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL, an 18th-century astronomer, is credited with being the first person to notice the effect of variations in the sun's activity on the Earth. In 1801 he observed that when the sun had many spots on its surface, the price of wheat fell—a connection he attributed to the weather being more temperate. Over the next 200 years scientists tried, without much success, to understand exactly how these transient sunspots might affect the climate. Now an experiment has begun that could explain what is going on.

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