Simon Atkins was willing to cut his audience a little slack. "I know it's hard to believe because you haven't seen it on CNN," Atkins, a climate economist and disaster risk forecaster, told an audience of farmland owners and farmers. Atkins was schooling his audience on some alternative theories about weather and climate change at the Peoples Company Land Investment Expo.
""This is what we've done over the last 15 years, solar research. It goes up, down, up, down," he said. Atkins was describing the solar cycle, the cycle of sunspot activity on the sun that affects weather on Earth.
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