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Climate change redux

India should turn away from the Paris accord as latest research shows particles from space, and not human activity, affect climate on Earth

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Deepak Lal
Over the years this column has been supporting the theory of ‘cosmoclimatology’ propounded by Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark and his associates for climate change, over the alternative theory of anthropogenic CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and adopted by the world’s great and good on which various international accords like that signed in Paris are based. (See my “Climate vs change: Sun and the stars vs CO2”, June 19, 2007). To recapitulate, the cosmoclimatology theory states that climate is controlled by low cloud cover, which when widespread has a cooling effect by reflecting solar
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