A new scientific study could bust wide open deeply flawed fundamental assumptions underlying controversial climate legislation and initiatives such as the Green New Deal, namely, the degree to which 'climate change' is driven by natural phenomena vs. man-made issues measured as carbon footprint.
Scientists in Finland found "practically no anthropogenic climate change" after a series of studies. “During the last hundred years the temperature increased about 0.1°C because of carbon dioxide. The human contribution was about 0.01°C”, the Finnish researchers bluntly state in one among a series of papers.
This has been collaborated by a team at Kobe University in Japan, which has furthered the Finnish researchers' theory: "New evidence suggests that high-energy particles from space known as galactic cosmic rays affect the Earth's climate by increasing cloud cover, causing an 'umbrella effect'," the just published study has found, a summary of which has been released in the journal Science Daily. The findings are hugely significant given this 'umbrella effect' — an entirely natural occurrence — could be the prime driver of climate warming, and not man-made factors.
This so called "umbrella effect" would only be valid if the global warming was generated by the earth, and not from external sources such as the Sun. While it's true there are some sources of thermal activity emanating from the earth such as volcanoes, forest fires, human activity, and even heat generated by all animal life including around 8 billion humans, it is but a fraction of the energy which falls on the earth constantly from the star we are in orbit around. While it's probable that Cosmic particles striking the upper atmosphere create visible water vapor, AKA Clouds, this cloud cover actually acts like a reflector of the light energy which falls on the earth from the Sun and is more likely protecting the earth by allowing the earths temperature to remain cool enough to support life, rather than rising to a point where all life on earth would be burned to a crisp. The reflectivity of the oceans and clouds is what makes life on earth possible.
It's all in how you interpret the data generated by these studies.
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