Posted on 01/12/2009 6:33:01 PM PST by NormsRevenge
COPENHAGEN (AFP) The earth's climate has been significantly affected by the planet's magnetic field, according to a Danish study published Monday that could challenge the notion that human emissions are responsible for global warming.
"Our results show a strong correlation between the strength of the earth's magnetic field and the amount of precipitation in the tropics," one of the two Danish geophysicists behind the study, Mads Faurschou Knudsen of the geology department at Aarhus University in western Denmark, told the Videnskab journal.
He and his colleague Peter Riisager, of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), compared a reconstruction of the prehistoric magnetic field 5,000 years ago based on data drawn from stalagmites and stalactites found in China and Oman.
The results of the study, which has also been published in US scientific journal Geology, lend support to a controversial theory published a decade ago by Danish astrophysicist Henrik Svensmark, who claimed the climate was highly influenced by galactic cosmic ray (GCR) particles penetrating the earth's atmosphere.
Svensmark's theory, which pitted him against today's mainstream theorists who claim carbon dioxide (CO2) is responsible for global warming, involved a link between the earth's magnetic field and climate, since that field helps regulate the number of GCR particles that reach the earth's atmosphere.
"The only way we can explain the (geomagnetic-climate) connection is through the exact same physical mechanisms that were present in Henrik Svensmark's theory," Knudsen said.
"If changes in the magnetic field, which occur independently of the earth's climate, can be linked to changes in precipitation, then it can only be explained through the magnetic field's blocking of the cosmetic rays," he said.
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Anthropogenic.
Even if they used cosmetic for cosmic, magnetic fields bear no resemblance to mankind’s image.
Oh, so YOU’RE the one who is responsible for all this!
Where can I get some of those cosmetic rays?
Sign me up. That’s as good a one as carbon trading.
Do you think it matters where ya put the magnets on the FRidge? Some put them on the front only. Others line both sides (Guilty here).
Not sure what effect it has on overall taste or longevity of the FRidge contents but.. we’ll leave that for another thread. Got more research to do on that one. ;-)
Headed for 70 again today and tomoorrow too.. WE need rain.
Thanks!
Considering we live in a charged environment and the essence of all physical matter is at its core electromagnetic, we are always in a state of flux. Some folk handle the flux well, others, not so. Those are the ones who seek to get the flux out of here. Must be a side effect of GCRs.
It’s a combination of Earth’s magnetic field, and the Sun’s magnetic field, which have a lot of influence on the amount of cosmic radiation hitting the atmosphere. Cosmic radiation has an effect on cloud formation, and thus the amount of sunlight that hits the ground, and thus on the Earth’s temperature.
You are correct sir.
This is a big DUH! All of creation is inter-related and inter-dependant. Did they suppose it is all by chance and has no co-dependancy? We cannot begin to comprehend the greatness of our CREATOR.
Atheists are Climate Change zombies. However I have run into a number of Christians who also believe in Climate Change. They may want to read The Book a little more often.
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