Silly us thinking that the giant flaming orb in the sky might affect our temperatures!
I love it when we speak truth to power!
Actually they do.
The theory is that solar wind drives back the cosmic rays and prevents some of them from reaching earth.
Since cosmic rays cause clouds, more solar wind means fewer cosmic rays means fewer clouds means more absorption of radiant heat from the sun means higher temperatures.
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Though occasionally there are high energy bursts such as stars in supernova even in other galaxies, and even more energetic sources such as pulsars and quasars near the event horizon at ~14 billion years distant.
Yet, being periodic in nature, it does seem difficult to specifically tie these to any long term atmospheric events over about 4 billion years here.
...Such a strange and beautiful universe of God....
You are right. It is not cosmic rays by themselves; as the headline states.
The hypothesis is that the interaction of cosmic rays and solar wind affect cloud formation and earthly temperatures. As you stated, the variability (warming or cooling) is due to our sun.
The article talks of global warming during the last decades. But I don’t think there has been any global warming in the last ten years.
If we can’t get the Y (dependent variable) value right, why debate about the X (independent) variable?
Actually, the term “cosmic rays” includes gamma emissions from the sun. But also see post #6.
Coming soon! A study on the effects of moonlight and global warming. (Hint:save the research money. Moonlight has no impact on Gorebull warming.)