Webb, CEO of growth and strategy firm Lassen Innovation, decided to go in the opposite direction.

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Mr Lassen was working from top to bottom, fixing the glass he had leaded.

ECONOMIST: Michael Lassen

Mr Lassen had been called in late to lead and fix this window.

ECONOMIST: Michael Lassen

That was when Danish physicist, Henrik Svensmark, decided to explore the matter after coming across a 1991 paper by fellow Danes Eigil Friis-Christensen and Knud Lassen that charted solar variations and global surface temperatures since 1860.

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Mr Lassen provided it, expertly and fully.

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