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The cooling world

Peter Gwynne

April 28, 1975

Newsweek

The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth's climate seems to be cooling down.

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Scientists ask why world climate is changing; major cooling may be ahead

Walter Sullivan

May 21, 1975

New York Times

Sooner or later a major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable. Hints that it may already have begun are evident.

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The amount of non-fossil-fuel C02 in the atmosphere

T V Segalstad (Mineralogical-Geological Museum, University of Oslo, Sars' Gate 1, N-0562, Norway

March 23, 1992

The atmospheric CO2 budget marine degassing and juvenile degassing from, e.g., volcanic sources must be much more important, and burning of fossil-fuel and biogenic materials much less important, than hitherto assumed.

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Original CLOUD concept

Jasper Kirkby

February 24, 1998

Beam measurements of a CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets) chamber.

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Scientist refutes notion of recent climate as 'uniquely benign'

Kurt Sternlof

February 18, 2000

Columbia University News

Paleoclimatologist George Kukla sees evidence of approaching Ice Age despite Global Warming; he argues there is no reason to think glacial history won't repeat itself.

 

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The CLOUD proposal to CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Jasper Kirkby et al.

April 24, 2000
 

A study of the link between cosmic rays and clouds with a cloud chamber.

 

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1) First addendum to the CLOUD proposal

Jasper Kirkby et al.

August 4, 2000

Addendum to the CLOUD proposal.

 

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2) Second addendum to the CLOUD proposal

Jasper Kirkby et al.

October 17, 2000

CLOUD: An atmospheric research facility at CERN (European Organization for Nuchear Research).

 

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Workshop on Ion-Aerosol-Cloud Interactions

European Geophysical Society, the European Physical Society and the European Science Foundation

April 18, 2001

An inter-disciplinary workshop to review the present knowledge of ion-aerosol-cloud interactions and their possible role in solar-climate variability, as well as discuss the proposed Atmospheric Research Facility.

 

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Details of the CLOUD experiment

Ed. Jasper Kirkby

January 17, 2002

 

A particle beam facility to investigate the influence of cosmic rays on clouds, in Proc. of the Workshop on Ion-Aerosol-Cloud Interactions.

 

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