Reply To: Global Warming

[vansig]

I don’t get that, at all. drilling down into the debate reaches Donald E. Scott’s abstract, here
http://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/2009-Spring/announce.scott.html
which says,
“The presentation attempts to motivate the realization that ‘new science’ should not be invoked unless and until all aspects of what we already know, including plasma physics and basic electromagnetism, have been exhaustively applied in the investigation of what appear to be astronomical anomalies.”

An adequate layman’s view of the term ‘magnetic reconnection’ is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_reconnection
which has
“Solar flares, the largest explosions in the solar system, may involve the reconnection of large systems of magnetic flux on the Sun, releasing, in minutes, energy that has been stored in the magnetic field over a period of hours to days. Magnetic reconnection in Earth’s magnetosphere is one of the mechanisms responsible for the aurora, and it is important to the science of controlled nuclear fusion because it is one mechanism preventing magnetic confinement of the fusion fuel.”

I see no controversy there. If it were pseudo-science, I’d expect to see objections in that article