- This major cover story is done on a black background,
with a giant picture of a glowing hot Sun. Here is a translation:
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- "Can over 300 experts on the UN climate panel be
wrong? They can, according to the leading Danish researcher, Henrik Svensmark.
He thinks that when the Earth sweats, it is probably due to the Sun. And,
for the time being, Svensmark's theories can not be brushed aside."
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- The Text:
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- "While the hottest environmental debate in the world
concerns how man can stop global warming, a respected Danish researcher
goes against the current. He puts a great deal of the responsibility far
out in the universe -- all the way up to the Sun.
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- "Henrik Svensmark is the leader of the Danish National
Space Research Center's solar climate research, and if you believe him
and his research, all of the worldwide and wildly expensive initiatives
to reduce the leakage of CO2, will not have any significant effect on the
globe's heat stroke.
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- ''To assert that CO2 is the only explanation for the
current global warming, is wrong. The Sun has probably had a great share
in the warming throughout the last 100 years, and, if we go back longer
in time, the Sun has been the dominating factor in climate change,' he
says.
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- "Henrik Svensmark's research is being increasingly
taken seriously, even by the UN climate panel, which used a whole 10 hours
to discuss especially his theory about the Sun's influence, before they
released the latest and widely talked-about report about CO2's importance
for the current warming.
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- "The 49-year-old researcher has also just published
a popular science book.
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- Inside the paper, there is a two-page "Focus"
spread about Svensmark's theories and research, entitled, "The Dane
Who Challenges the World's Climate Researchers," including a big picture
of Svensmark in the middle, as covered in the Feb. 28 briefing. Then, Svensmark
is asked specifically about the CO2 theory:
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- "Well, I acknowledge that CO2 can play a role...
" Then he continues, "There are many who assert that global warming
is a catastrophe, which we should avoid. I am not at all sure that it is
a catastrophe, and it is unscientific to assert that is the case. The climate
models which lay the basis for the IPCC's predictions, are not reliable
enough for such predictions."
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- THE OFFICIAL WEBPAGE FOR THE COUNTRY OF
DENMARK, www.denmark.dk has two news items, one of which is about Svensmark's
research, according to an accompanying article entitled "The Global
Climate Battle." It continues to report on the battle between Svensmark
and the CO2 people, including at the IPCC (reporting that during the 10-hour
debate in the UN climate panel, after listening to Svensmark, China and
Saudi Arabia prevented writing down the Sun's role in the climate from
40 to 20% percent). It then talks about Nigel Calder's popularization of
Svensmark's work, the British Channel 4 program, and the harassment of
CO2 critics, including the death threats against the Canadian researcher
Ball. It also reports that American Prof. Carl Wunsch who was interviewed
for the program has repudiated the way his interview was shown, which he
says "was closer to straight propaganda than anything since World
War II." The article states that the most significant criticism of
Svensmark's theory is probably from Eigil Kaas, from the Danish Meteorological
Institute, who points out that since 1950, the cosmic radiation has been
constant, although there has been an increase in global warming. The article
ends by saying that we laymen need facts, not feelings and political pep
talks, and therefore, it is important that in the scientific landscape,
there is room for a Svensmark.. Note that {Berlingske Tidende} was taken
over by British media group Mecom, headed up by David Montgomery, in the
summer of 2006. It turns out that the Senior Non-Executive Director, Sir
in English, just as his research plays a central role in a highly provocative
and debate-creating British documentary program with the title, 'The Great
Global Warming Swindle.' "Read more: www.spacecenter.dk [the Danish
National Space Center homepage]."
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