News and Views: Does the Sun affect the Earth's climate?

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Jun 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007a%26g....48c...7c&link_type=abstract

Astronomy & Geophysics, Volume 48, Issue 3, pp. 3.07-3.07.

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Geophysics

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Svensmark's article in the February issue (A&G 2007 48 1.18) presented a possible mechanism for the way the Sun could influence the Earth's climate. He suggested that water droplets condense in the ionization trail left by cosmic rays, whose flux varies inversely with solar activity: when the magnetic field of the solar wind is stronger, it shields the Earth from galactic cosmic rays and so decreases their flux on the Earth; according to Svensmark's ideas, this produces fewer clouds and thereby heats the Earth.

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