Cosmic Rays and Climate

Climate 7: Cosmic Rays

limate change driven by the sun, constitutes a strongly competitive hypothesis to the climate modeling-political hypothesis of human-caused global warming. As many scientists have documented, the position and orientation of the Earth in its orbit around the sun and the sun’s variable activity determine weather and climate [1]. As part of this process, oceans store enormous amounts of solar ener...

Cosmic rays, clouds, and climate.

It has been proposed that Earth's climate could be affected by changes in cloudiness caused by variations in the intensity of galactic cosmic rays in the atmosphere. This proposal stems from an observed correlation between cosmic ray intensity and Earth's average cloud cover over the course of one solar cycle. Some scientists question the reliability of the observations, whereas others, who acc...

Cosmic Rays , Carbon Dioxide , and Climate

Submarine volcanic eruptions recently located in the Pacific by Sofar hydrophones, of study of sulfur-rich hydrothermal activity from an island-arc environment: Esmeralda Bank in the Mariana Arc, Mar. Several recent papers have applied correlation analysis to climate-related time series in the hope of finding evidence for causal relationships. For a critical discussion of correlations between s...

Solar Influence on Climate: Cosmic Rays

Influence of Cosmic Rays on Earth’s Climate

During the last solar cycle Earth’s cloud cover underwent a modulation more closely in phase with the galactic cosmic ray flux than with other solar activity parameters. Further it is found that Earth’s temperature follows more closely decade variations in galactic cosmic ray flux and solar cycle length, than other solar activity parameters. The main conclusion is that the average state of the ...