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The Danish research should help you see how puny is man's contribution to global warming and cooling.
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It doesn't really though, it's a lone, controversial and less than reputable voice. The weight of evidence is still with the anthropogenic forcing theory, a single piece of research saying differently is not going to convince many people that a theory well supported by evidence is wrong.
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Science is not a popularity contest (For instance, Galileo's hypothesis that the planets orbit the sun was not popular with the Catholic establishment at the time, but he was right). The problem with the anthropogenic GHG hypothesis is that one cannot use it to make consistent predictions about present or past climate events. Until the scientist can formulate the anthropogenic GHG hypothesis in a way that makes accurate predictions, it is impossible to make scientific statements about the effects of green house gases on the climate.
On the other hand, Svensmark's cosmological model for climate change does predict, with surprising accuracy, historical climate events. From a scientific standpoint their model is the most convincing one.