re: #177 SixDegrees

To be fair, the film introducing this thread wasn’t made by a climatologist. Is this cause to dismiss it?

Well, unlike most on the denier/skeptic/doubter side, it was made by someone doing first hand documentary research. Though he is a photographer, I would submit he is documenting nature and thus equivalent to scientists. I would not put enormous stock in computer models this man wrote but rejecting his assemblage of evidence would be illogical. Most on the other side like to pick at the data put together by the consensus, they seldom never have original research to support their claims.

Also, there have actually been quite a number of papers published in peer- reviewed scientific journals, including climatological journals, investigating a hypothesized link between climate and cosmic rays. To date, the evidence has been inconclusive, at best, but research on the matter continues. I think the popular account linked in the original post overstates the matter significantly, but this is an active area of scientific investigation, not something hallucinated by some whacko between rants about chemtrails or something.

Solar activity and the current environmental change are divergent.

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