{"id":2921,"date":"2009-10-25T10:17:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T18:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2009-10-25T12:19:16","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T20:19:16","slug":"cosmic-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=2921","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 1em ; padding-bottom: 0 ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/earth\/hi\/earth_news\/newsid_8311000\/8311373.stm\"><q>Cosmic pattern to UK tree growth<\/q> by Matt Walker at the <abbr title=\"British Broadcasting Corporation\" style=\"font-size: smaller ;\">BBC<\/abbr><\/a><blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ;\"><p>The growth of British trees appears to follow a cosmic pattern, with trees growing faster when high levels of cosmic radiation arrive from space.<\/p> <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">&#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/span> <p>As yet, they cannot explain the pattern, but variation in cosmic rays impacted tree growth more than changes in temperature or precipitation.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div> <p>(By saying <q>rays impacted tree growth<\/q>, the <abbr title=\"British Broadcasting Corporation\">Beeb<\/abbr> goes further than the data actually warrant.  Cosmic rays are positively correlated with tree growth, but their effect may be negligible.  It may be something else, also correlated with the rays, that has been affecting growth rates.)<\/p> <p>The source paper is available here: <div style=\"padding-left: 1em ; padding-right: 1em ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newphytologist.com\/details\/journalArticle\/404407\/A_relationship_between_galactic_cosmic_radiation_and_tree_rings.html\"><q>A relationship between galactic cosmic radiation and tree rings<\/q> by Sigrid  Dengel, Dominik  Aeby and John  Grace in <cite>New Phytologist<\/cite> v184 #3<\/a><\/div> but a subscription is required to view more than the abstract.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cosmic pattern to UK tree growth by Matt Walker at the BBCThe growth of British trees appears to follow a cosmic pattern, with trees growing faster when high levels of cosmic radiation arrive from space. &#91;&#8230;&#93; As yet, they cannot explain the pattern, but variation in cosmic rays impacted tree growth more than changes in [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,4],"tags":[710,527,189],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public","tag-climate-change","tag-climatology","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}