July 16, 2007
Monday PM

Dear Editor,

Recent research by Henrik Svensmark and his group at the Danish National Space Center points to the real cause of the recent warming trend. In a series of experiments on the formation of clouds, these scientists have shown that fluctuations in the Sun's output cause the observed changes in the Earth's temperature.

In the past, scientists believed the fluctuations in the Sun's output were too small to cause the observed amount of temperature change, hence the need to look for other causes like carbon dioxide. However, these new experiments show that fluctuations in the Sun's output are in fact large enough, so there is no longer a need to resort to carbon dioxide as the cause of the recent warming trend.

The discovery of the real cause of the recent increase in the Earth's temperature is indeed a convenient truth. It means humans are not to blame for the increase. It also means there is absolutely nothing we can, much less do, to correct the situation.

Thomas Laprade
Thunder Bay, Ont., Canada


Your readers might be interested in these websites. (Click on these links.)

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming020507.htm

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288195,00.html

http://www.abc.net.au/westqld/stories/s1971899.htm?backyard

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.
Blogs&ContentRecord_id=927b9303-802a-23ad-
494b-dccb00b51a12&Region_id=&Issue_id=&IsTextOnly=True

http://www.worldclimatereport.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/06/opinion/06fri1.html?hp

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070705191403.gahmdtoi&show_article=1

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070705/greenland_
dna_070705/20070705?hub=SciTech

http://www.aip.org/history/climate/solar.htm

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289149,00.html

Received July 14, 2007 - Published July 16, 2007

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