the van allen belt

blimkie

a friend of mine in university told me to read up on the van allen belt as another argument fro my essay on global warming jsut being part of a giant climate cycle.
but i didnt really find anything relating to the subject
does anyone have any link or care to explain

Phobos

moving this to the Earth Sciences forum...

blimkie

yea good idea

Andre

The reason why you find little about the Van Allen belt and climate because it's thought that isn't much relationship:

http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/education...dex.html#belts

There is some correlation between solar activity, radio activity and climate:

http://cc.oulu.fi/~usoskin/personal/2004ja010964.pdf
(just published)

Since the Van Allen belt is also about cosmic radio activity, somebody may have suggested a connection.

blimkie

thanks andre, yours always helpful