[geeks] Global Warming causes...

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 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.

My favorite method is climate shift caused by the precession of the 
Earth's axis of rotation.

Peace...  Sridhar