Does the Van Allen belt relate to climate cycles?

[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 just 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/lectures/magnetosphere/index.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