Celestial climate driver: a perspective from four billion years of the carbon cycle.

From: Geoscience Canada | Date: March 1, 2005| Author: Veizer, Jan | Copyright information

SUMMARY

The standard explanation for vagaries of our climate, championed by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), is that greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, are its principal driver. Recently, an alternative model that the sun is the principal driver was revived by a host of empirical observations. Neither atmospheric carbon dioxide nor solar variability can alone explain the magnitude of the observed temperature increase over the last century...

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