Is it plausible that Polar bears are 4-5 million years old? Part 1 | polarbearscience

I plan to take the 4-5 million year old date for the origin of Polar bears and Brown bears with a healthy dose of salt. Expect to see another paper showing different results within a few years.

Cosmic ignorance

The media made a great deal out of the Higgs Boson experiments at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, but failed to report anything about the fundamentally important cloud experiment also carried out there.

This experiment demonstrates that incoming cosmic rays interact with the lower atmosphere to induce cloud. Thus, if the sun's magnetic field is weak, there will be high cosmic ray counts, more cloud and cooling. On the other hand, with an active sun, cosmic ray counts are low and there will be warming because of the lack of cloud. This has been the case for most of the past century.

This cosmic interplay is further modulated by the output of cosmic rays through time as the solar system travels through the Milky Way Galaxy. This accounts for the climatic variability of the planet for the past 540 million years. This is one of the most exciting scientific breakthroughs of this century, yet it has rated zero media coverage. Is this because it invalidates the popular paradigm that CO2 released by humans causes warming?

[Bummer:  Alleged CO2-induced heat and flooding make planet-healing subway travel less attractive, which allegedly causes even more CO2-induced heat and flooding,which makes planet-healing subway travel even less attractive] - thestar.com

the heat and flood risk scarcely make the subway a more attractive alternative — this at a time when cities around the world are striving to boost public transit as a way of reducing the very greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change.

“It’s one of those perverse feedback loops,” says Cherise Burda, Ontario director of transportation policy at The Pembina Institute, an energy and environmental think tank.