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Cosmic rays and space weather: effects on global climate change
Israel Cosmic Ray & Space Weather Center and Emilio Segre' Observatory, Tel Aviv University, Technion and Israel Space Agency, Israel
Cosmic Ray Department of IZMIRAN, Russian Academy of Science, Russia
Abstract. We consider possible effects of cosmic rays and some other space factors on the Earth's climate change. It is well known that the system of internal and external factors formatting the climate is very unstable; decreasing planetary temperature leads to an increase of snow surface, and decrease of the total solar energy input into the system decreases the planetary temperature even more, etc. From this it follows that even energetically small factors may have a big influence on climate change. In our opinion, the most important of these factors are cosmic rays and cosmic dust through their influence on clouds, and thus, on climate.
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Citation: Dorman, L. I.: Cosmic rays and space weather: effects on global climate change, Ann. Geophys., 30, 9-19, doi:10.5194/angeo-30-9-2012, 2012. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
