CERN Scientists say climate change is from Cosmic Rays and the Sun

Sources:
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/08/26/lawrence-solomon-science-now-settled/
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110824/full/news.2011.504.html

Financialpost said:

The research, published with little fanfare this week in the prestigious journal Nature, comes from Ã¼ber-prestigious CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, one of the worldâ€™s largest centres for scientific research involving 60 countries and 8,000 scientists at more than 600 universities and national laboratories. CERN is the organization that invented the World Wide Web, that built the multi-billion dollar Large Hadron Collider, and that has now built a pristinely clean stainless steel chamber that precisely recreated the Earthâ€™s atmosphere.

In this chamber, 63 CERN scientists from 17 European and American institutes have done what global warming doomsayers said could never be done â€” demonstrate that cosmic rays promote the formation of molecules that in Earthâ€™s atmosphere can grow and seed clouds, the cloudier and thus cooler it will be. Because the sunâ€™s magnetic field controls how many cosmic rays reach Earthâ€™s atmosphere (the stronger the sunâ€™s magnetic field, the more it shields Earth from incoming cosmic rays from space), the sun determines the temperature on Earth.
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Nature said:

It sounds like a conspiracy theory: 'cosmic rays' from deep space might be creating clouds in Earth's atmosphere and changing the climate. Yet an experiment at CERN, Europe's high-energy physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, is finding tentative evidence for just that.

The findings, published today in Nature1, are preliminary, but they are stoking a long-running argument over the role of radiation from distant stars in altering the climate.

For a century, scientists have known that charged particles from space constantly bombard Earth. Known as cosmic rays, the particles are mostly protons blasted out of supernovae. As the protons crash through the planet's atmosphere, they can ionize volatile compounds, causing them to condense into airborne droplets, or aerosols. Clouds might then build up around the droplets.
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