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Astronomy and the Climate Crisis

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Milankovic’s theories were not the only ones to emerge out of the search for hidden clues to the large climate variations and epochs that have taken place throughout Earth’s history. However, it concerns only the domain of the Sun. Two related theories, with implications from far more distant places than any within the Sun’s realm, also have been at the heart of no less bitter a controversy and dispute than any we have encountered before. Probably the most esoteric and contested of them all, they link us to the very heart of the galaxy, involving the effects of galactic cosmic rays.

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Cooke, A. (2012). Cosmic Crisis. In: Astronomy and the Climate Crisis. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4608-8_12

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