Captain Kidd
19-August-2005, 07:10 PM
Two climate change sceptics, who believe the dangers of global warming are overstated, have put their money where their mouth is and bet $10,000 that the planet will cool over the next decade.
The Russian solar physicists Galina Mashnich and Vladimir Bashkirtsev have agreed the wager with a British climate expert, James Annan.
[source (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1552092,00.html)]
They say that global temperatures are linked more to the sun's cycle [i.e. number and size of sunspots] and as the sun is expected to enter a less active cycle soon, they're laying bets the earth will likewise cool.
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The Russian solar physicists Galina Mashnich and Vladimir Bashkirtsev have agreed the wager with a British climate expert, James Annan.
[source (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1552092,00.html)]
They say that global temperatures are linked more to the sun's cycle [i.e. number and size of sunspots] and as the sun is expected to enter a less active cycle soon, they're laying bets the earth will likewise cool.
[edit to tweak a couple things]