Along the global warming debate lines...
There is an interview in the new Discover magazine (the issue isn't online yet apparently) with a Danish scientist who studies cloud formation and and cosmic radiation.
His contention is that in the current global warming models cloud formation and cosmic radiation is not taken into account. He feels that this is most likely the biggest factor in global warming. I haven't read his science etc but what is interesting is how he has been shut out by the global warming "scientists" as trying to deny something is happening. He doesn't deny that CO2 levels are increasing and that this is contributing to global warming. His contention is that it is in all likelihood minor and there are other, bigger factors that are not accounted for in the models. And these factors are known to be factors but the models basically fail to take them into account as cloud formation, cosmic radiation etc are extremely difficult to model (something his work is addressing).
Anyways a bit of an interesting read.
And no he isn't funded by any oil companies. Most of his funding comes from a foundation set up by Carlsberg.
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