Bid to heap blame on sunspots for climate change has backfired

Independent: An attempt by climate sceptics to hijack the latest UN report on global warming by selectively leaking claims that it is caused by sunspots rather than man-made emissions of carbon dioxide has backfired. Sceptics described the forthcoming report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a "game changer" because of its apparent support for the controversial theory that solar activity, interacting with cosmic rays from deep space, can explain global warming. Alec Rawls, a Republican...

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