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Planck Institutes, with preliminary data expected to arrive this coming summer. The
world of particle physics is awaiting these results with much anticipation because they
promise to unlock mysteries that can tell us much about climate change, as well as other
phenomena." Kirkby once said his research into the sun and cosmic rays "will probably
account for somewhere between a half and the whole of the increase in the Earth's
temperature that we have seen in the last century." (LINK)
Solar physicists Galina Mashnich and Vladimir Bashkirtsev, of the Institute of
Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, believe the climate is driven by the sun and predict global cooling will soon
occur. The two scientists are so convinced that global temperatures will cool within the
next decade they have placed a $10,000 wager with a UK scientist to prove their
certainty. The criteria for the $10,000 bet will be to "compare global temperatures
between 1998 and 2003 with those between 2012 and 2017. The loser will pay up in
2018," according to an April 16, 2007 article in Live Science. (LINK) Bashkirtsev and
Mashnich have questioned the view that the "anthropogenic impact" is driving Earth's
climate. "None of the investigations dealing with the anthropogenic impact on climate
convincingly argues for such an impact," the two scientists noted in 2003. Bashkirtsev
and Mashnich believe the evidence of solar impacts on the climate "leave little room for
the anthropogenic impact on the Earth's climate." They believe that "solar variations
naturally explain global cooling observed in 1950-1970, which cannot be understood
from the standpoint of the greenhouse effect, since CO2 was intensely released into the
atmosphere in this period." (LINK)
Physics Professor Emeritus Dr. Howard Hayden of the University of Connecticut
and author of "The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won't Run the World,"
debunked fears of a man-made climate disaster during a presentation in April. "You
think SUVs are the cause of glaciers shrinking? I don't think so," Hayden, who retired
after 32 years as a professor, said, according to an April 25, 2007 article in Maine Today.
"Don't believe what you hear out of Hollywood and Washington, D.C.," Hayden said.
According to the article, Hayden argued that "climate history proves that Gore has the
relationship between carbon dioxide concentration and global warming backwards. A
higher concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, he said, does not cause the
Earth to be warmer. Instead," he said, "a warmer Earth causes the higher carbon dioxide
levels." Hayden explained, "The sun heats up the Earth and the oceans warm up and
atmospheric carbon dioxide rises." According to the article, Hayden "said humans'
contribution to global carbon dioxide levels is virtually negligible." Hayden is also the
editor of a monthly newsletter called "The Energy Advocate." (LINK)
Internationally renowned scientist Dr. Antonio Zichichi, president of the World
Federation of Scientists and a retired Professor of Advanced Physics at the
University of Bologna in Italy, who has published over 800 scientific papers,
questioned man-made global warming fears. According to an April 27, 2007 article at
Zenit.org, Zichichi "pointed out that human activity has less than 10% impact on the
environment." The article noted that Zichichi "showed that the mathematical models
used by the [UN's] IPCC do not correspond to the criteria of the scientific method. He
said the IPCC used ‘the method of 'forcing' to arrive at their conclusions that human
activity produces meteorological variations.'" Zichichi said that based upon actual
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