[geeks] Global Warming causes...

[Phil Stracchino]

wa2egp at att.net wrote:
>> There was no consensus at all, and a good number of them reported  
>> cosmic radiation, natural disasters, and orbit variation as larger  
>> factors in global temperature.
> 
> Explain how.  Maybe some of those might be bogus alternative explanations
> which have been shown to be just that.  Cosmic radiation (what type, I
> don't know) sounds a little far fetched.

I've heard "cosmic radiation" cited as a warming factor numerous times,
but have yet to hear a remotely plausible mechanism proposed by which
cosmic rays could measurably warm the earth.


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