Note: Original peer reviewed paper ref given below:

Extremely interesting "new" theory that can explain the last 100 
years' or so climate change events in terms of "synchronised chaos" 
rather than "anthropogenic" causes.

        http://www.dailytech.com/Major+New+Theory+Proposed+to+Explain+Global+Warming/article8450.htm

Especially useful are the readers' comments following the article, 
with a number of apparently well qualified people making detailed 
comment.

The main point of this to me is NOT that someone has come up with a 
"new explanation for Global Warming" (and they probably haven't in 
isolation, and they probably don't claim to have) but that it further 
demonstrates the vast number of factors which are and may be involved 
and demonstrates how complex the subject is and how dangerous it is to 
try and cut and dry the arguments and subject. (That said, my original 
"5 short sentences" were an attempt to make this point and this 
further demonstrates the points, along with the truly vast body of 
information available on the web.


            Russell

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Anyone wishing to address the merits of the above theory probably 
should follow a few of the various links provided to more primary 
material as this is a reporting of the report. Some of the readers' 
comments contain extremely useful references to other material.

Here's a starter:

Original paper

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL.34, L13705, 
doi:10.1029/2007GL030288,2007
A new dynamical mechanism for major climate shifts
Anastasios A.Tsonis,    Kyle Swanson,   and   Sergey Kravtsov
Received 5 April 2007;   revised16 May 2007;    accepted 15 June 2007; 
published 12 July 2007.


        http://www.volny.cz/lumidek/tsonis-grl.pdf


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OTHER INTERESTING SITES ON SAME GENERAL GW SUBJECT

Europe proposes banning all sports cars

        http://www.dailytech.com/Europe+Proposes+Banning+All+Sports+Cars/article8009.htm

NOAA global warming data challenged / revised

        http://www.dailytech.com/NOAA+Global+Warming+Data+Challenged/article7723.htm
        http://www.dailytech.com/New+Scandal+Erupts+over+NOAA+Climate+Data/article8347.htm


China becomes world's top CO2 emitter

        http://www.dailytech.com/China+Becomes+Worlds+Top+CO2+Emitter/article7770.htm


Revised NASA data shows that 1934 is the hottest year on record.
Top 10 known hottest years since 1930 are now, in order

        1934, 1998 1921 2006 1931 1999 1953 1990 1938 1939

        http://www.norcalblogs.com/watts/2007/08/1998_no_longer_the_hottest_yea.html


Official IPCC climate change site

        www.ipcc.ch



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