Fight Climate Change

A brand new book out is this week titled The Chilling Stars, A New Theory of Climate Change (available from Amazon for just £5.99). The book challenges the widely believed concept that man is to blame for climate change and provides evidence to suggest that global warming is in fact linked to cosmic rays.

The book is by Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder. Svensmark is a Danish Physicist (more details) who has linked cosmic rays to clouds and temperatures and his investigations around the world confirm his theory. These experiments are described in the book.

An article on the book and Svensmark is available at The Herald, and they report that later this year a team of scientists will “attempt to replicate the effect of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere, by conducting a large-scale experiment using a particle accelerator in Geneva”!

In the wake of the IPCC’s report on climate change, Svensmark and his colleagues are unlikely to sway too many of their peers to accept his research. However, if on one hand science is saying one thing and on another science is also telling us another, and research supports both theories – it does beg the question who is actually right? A discussion on the book and an article by Nigel Calder that featured in The Times this week rages on over at Realclimate.org.