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Jimmy Brogan
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posted 15 March 2006 05:25 PM      Profile for Jimmy Brogan   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Greenhouse gas hits record high

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By Chris Williams
Published Tuesday 14th March 2006 12:52 GMT
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have scaled record highs. CO2 has hit 381 parts per million - 100ppm above the pre-industrial average, the BBC reports.

Researchers at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (http://www.noaa.gov/) analysed air samples the world over. The benchmark findings mean the rate of increase in CO2 has doubled in the last 30 years.



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tvarga
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posted 19 March 2006 12:29 AM      Profile for tvarga     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
This was on the front page of the Edmonton Journal a couple of days ago.
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Cosmic rays set climate change on Earth, expert says

Scientist challenges greenhouse-gas theory

OTTAWA - Stars, not greenhouse gases, are heating up the Earth.

So says prominent University of Ottawa science professor Jan Veizer.


Thing of it is, though, the paper by Veizer referred to in the article is over a year old. Cosmic ray flux (CRF) has been bandied about as the explanation for global warming on the fringe of climate science for a while now, without much support. There is no news here, so it is hard not to be suspicious of a prominent yet bogus article discounting the greenhouse effect in the oil sands province. The reason why it appears now escapes me.

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