This was on the front page of the Edmonton Journal a couple of days ago.
quote:
Cosmic rays set climate change on Earth, expert saysScientist 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.
[ 19 March 2006: Message edited by: tvarga ]