Cucinotta said the findings show a tremendous need for additional studies
focused on cosmic ray exposures to tissues that dominate human cancer risks, and that these should begin prior to long - term space missions outside the Earth's geomagnetic sphere.
Updated — Editor's Note: Earlier today, Mother Jones, then Media Matters for America, then the New York Times accused Andrew Breitbart of a «global warming blunder» because the piece below cited Jykri Kauppinen as an author of a Nature
study on cosmic rays.
Prior to CRaTER and recent measurements by the Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) on the Mars rover Curiosity, the effects of thick
shielding on cosmic rays had only been simulated in computer models and in particle accelerators, with little observational data from deep space.
In November 2014 was recorded at the Pierre Auger collaboration meeting material to make a 25 - min
movie on cosmic rays, with a focus on the radio signal with AERA and CODALEMA / EXTASIS at Nancay, France.
The video features interviews with many scientists about their work
on cosmic ray physics at the Observatory.
The effect of the geomagnetic
field on cosmic ray energy estimates and large scale anisotropy searches on data from the Pierre Auger Observatory
In 2011, I used Mediabugs, an online tool aimed at correcting errors in news articles, to challenge assertions in a Breitbart
report on cosmic rays and climate.
Mark Follman, one of the founders of Mediabugs, wrote a piece for Mother Jones this morning with more
background on the cosmic ray post, noting that repeated attempts to correct the error, so far, have been met by silence.
The authors of the
article on cosmic rays and cloud changes clearly indicate (both in the abstract and in their Fig. 5) that a decrease in cloudiness (linked to a decrease in cosmic rays) is associated with an INCREASE of surface level air temperature, in other words clouds give negative feedback.
In weighing the new
results on cosmic rays and the atmosphere, I find a lot of merit in Hank Campbell's conclusion at Science 2.0:
In the above post, time permitted us only to discuss a few of Veizer's arguments, focussing
mainly on the cosmic ray flux.
The CERN CLOUD experiment only tested one - third of one out of four requirements necessary to blame global
warming on cosmic rays, and two of the other requirements have already failed.
Those of us who criticize AGW supporters for running past the evidence on CO2 should not make the same
mistake on cosmic rays, and movies such as The Global Warming Swindle have gone too far in portraying this alternate theory as fact.
Contrarians therefore gravitated toward work by Henrik Svensmark of the Technical University of Denmark, who argues that the sun's influence
on cosmic rays needs to be considered.
He claimed that he had developed a motor that
ran on cosmic rays; that he was working on a new non-Einsteinian physics that would supply a new form of energy; that he had discovered a new technique for photographing thoughts; and that he had developed a new ray, alternately labeled the death ray and the peace ray, with vastly greater military potential than Nobel's munitions.
To investigate the timing of Andean uplift, Dr Laura Evenstar from Bristol's School of Earth Sciences used a new method
based on cosmic rays that create a rare form of helium (cosmogenic He - 3) in minerals at Earth's surface.
(They comment on the geomagnetic field's influence
on cosmic ray flux in addition to the influence of the solar - driven interplanetary magnetic field; although I skipped over bothering to depict that in the prior graph compilation, which is very illustrative even without it, Vukcevic seems quite on to something there).
Timo: here's another paper about variations in the gravity field across the planet, and here's one about the impact of operator error in ball dropping stations, and here's
another on cosmic ray impacts on small round objects in the air.
The film continues to consider the argument in The Great Global Warming Swindle connecting the effect of solar flux
on cosmic rays, and cloud formation.
Solar influences
on cosmic rays and cloud formation: a re-assessment.