Climate Change Debunked? Not So Fast

Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer
Date: 28 July 2011 Time: 07:14 PM ET

New research suggesting that cloud cover, not carbon dioxide, causes global warming is getting buzz in climate skeptic circles. But mainstream climate scientists dismissed the research as unrealistic and politically motivated.

"It is not newsworthy," Daniel Murphy, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) cloud researcher, wrote in an email to LiveScience.