URI scientists dispute film's global warming claim - Projo 7 to 7 News Blog

A new, 10-minute documentary film called "Unstoppable Solar Cycles: The Real Story of Greenland" argues persuasively that solar cycles, not human activities, are causing global warming.

But two University of Rhode Island scientists say that the film's conclusions are not supported by science.

Rebecca Robinson, a marine geochemist, and John Merrill, an atmospheric chemist, reviewed several of the major theories posed by the movie and said they were either exaggerated or unsupported by data.

Solar cycles do affect the Earth, they conceded, but the cycles don't come close to causing the warming now being observed.

"It's been very warm for the last few decades," said Robinson. "We are in truly unprecedented times."