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The role of solar activity in global warming

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The author associates the recently observed climate warming and carbon dioxide concentration growth in the lower atmospheric layers with variations of solar-geomagnetic activity in global cloud formation and the significant decrease in the role of forests in carbon dioxide accumulation in the process of photosynthesis. The contribution of the greenhouse effect of carbon-containing gases to global warming turns out to be insignificant.

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Original Russian Text © S.V. Avakyan, 2013, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2013, Vol. 83, No. 5, pp. 425–436.

Sergei Vazgenovich Avakyan, Dr. Sci. (Phys.-Math.), is head of the Laboratory of Aerospace Physical Optics at the Vavilov State Optical Institute and a leading researcher of the RAS Central (Pulkovo) Astronomical Observatory.

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Avakyan, S.V. The role of solar activity in global warming. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 83, 275–285 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331613030015

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