Sunday, October 18, 2009

Repeat After Me: CO2 And ONLY CO2 Can Possibly Drive The Climate...

clipped from science.nasa.gov

October
15, 2009:
For years, researchers have known that
the solar system is surrounded by a vast bubble of magnetism.
Called the "heliosphere," it springs from the sun
and extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto, providing a first
line of defense against cosmic rays and interstellar clouds
that try to enter our local space. Although the heliosphere
is huge and literally fills the sky, it emits no light and
no one has actually seen it.

Until
now.

NASA's
IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer) spacecraft has made
the first all-sky maps of the heliosphere and the results
have taken researchers by surprise. The maps are bisected
by a bright, winding ribbon of unknown origin:

"This
is a shocking new result," says IBEX principal investigator
Dave McComas of the Southwest Research Institute. "We
had no idea this ribbon existed--or what has created it. Our
previous ideas about the outer heliosphere are going to have
to be revised."
yeah, riiiight.