It's not volcanoes. It's not water vapor. It's not carbonation in soda pop.
And it's not the sun or cosmic rays, either:
"This should settle the debate," said Mike Lockwood, from the UK's Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, who carried out the new analysis together with Claus Froehlich from the World Radiation Center in Switzerland.
Dr Lockwood initiated the study partially in response to the TV documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, broadcast on Britain's Channel Four earlier this year, which featured the cosmic ray hypothesis.
"All the graphs they showed stopped in about 1980, and I knew why, because things diverged after that," he told the BBC News website.
"You can't just ignore bits of data that you don't like," he said.
"Mike Lockwood's analysis appears to have put a large, probably fatal nail in this intriguing and elegant [cosmic ray] hypothesis."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6290228.stm
Do GW deniers have any alternative explanations left?
2007-07-11
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