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Published online 8 July 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030707-1

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Galactic dust cooling Earth?

Controversial climate claim exonerates carbon dioxide.

The impact of cosmic rays on our climate might outweigh that of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, a controversial new report suggests1.

"It's no excuse to ignore sensible resource use," says one of the report's authors, physicist Nir Shaviv of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.

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