COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Feb. 11 (UPI) — Danish researchers claim that much of the Earth’s global warming may be caused by fluctuations in cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere.
Henrik Svensmark, a weather scientist at the Danish National Space Center, told The Sunday Telegraph in London that human activity may have less to do with global warming than previously thought. His team’s research on the effect of cosmic rays on cloud cover came out a week after the U.N. Panel on Climate Change released a report that said human carbon dioxide emissions were responsible for much of global warming.
But Svensmark said the U.N. panel’s research didn’t really take the effect of cosmic rays on cloud cover into account. He said the impact on human activity on climate change may be much smaller than the panel predicted.
„It was long thought that clouds were caused by climate change, but now we see that climate change is driven by clouds,“ Svensmark told the Sunday Telegraph.
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