By P Gosselin on 4. March 2018
Tropical storms in the Pacific are strongly influenced by solar activity fluctuations and ocean cycles By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) Tropical storms have plagued humans since the start. Today we will shed some light on the activity pattern of the Pacific region. Toomey et al. 2016 examined […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Oceans, Solar |
By P Gosselin on 16. February 2018
Here at NTZ we are glad to see that German weather and climate blogger Schneefan is back from his hiatus and this week he presents a couple of interesting posts, here and here. Cold to grip Europe for rest of month First he writes that the latest weather models and patterns are now pointing to an extended winter […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Oceans, Solar |
By P Gosselin on 15. December 2017
Geologist Dr. Norman Page left a comment which I’ve decided to upgrade to a post. In it he writes solar and La Nina observations fit well with his recent paper showing that climate is controlled by natural orbital and solar activity cycles. Dr. Page is among a growing number of scientists who share the general view […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Oceans, Solar |
By P Gosselin on 30. September 2017
Yet another study has been published showing that regional climate cycles are related to solar activity. The most recent suggest that blizzards in North America are related to solar activity cycles. Blizzard in Kansas. Photo: NOAA – public domain. ========================================== More Blizzards in North America During Solar Weak Phases By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Solar |
By P Gosselin on 23. August 2017
The sun in July 2017 By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) Our source of energy and life at the center of our solar system was significantly below normal with respect to activity last month. The measured sunspot number (SSN) was 18.3. That was only 36% of what is typical (51) this […]
Posted in Solar |
By P Gosselin on 8. July 2017
Sun rules sea level: Scientists discover unexpected relationship By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated by P Gosselin) A group of researchers led by Adrian Martinez-Asensio have found an 11-year Schwabe solar cycle in the European sea level. The authors published their findings 19 November 2016 in the Geophysical Research Letters: […]
Posted in Solar |
By P Gosselin on 18. June 2017
Frank Bosse and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt present their monthly solar activity report at their Die kalte Sonne site. In May the sun was very quiet as sunspot number was a mere 18.8, which is only 36% of what is typical for the month this far into the cycle. Seven days saw no sunspot activity at all. The […]
Posted in Arctic, Oceans, Solar |
By P Gosselin on 28. May 2017
Solar activity impacts Pacific weather By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) In a joint US-German study, seven scientists recently tried to discredit the sun’s impact on climate. On April 19, 2017, Guoyong Wen and colleagues published a modeling study in the Journal of Space Weather and Space […]
Posted in Solar |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. April 2017
Already 58 New 2017 Papers Link Solar Activity To Climate Changes Earlier this month, the first installment in the accumulating list of hundreds of new peer-reviewed scientific papers supporting a skeptical position on climate change alarm was made available. Included on the list were 38 papers linking climate changes to solar forcing: 38 Sun-Climate Scientific Papers, […]
Posted in Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Solar, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 10. April 2017
Modern Solar Grand Maximum Ends ‘Little Ice Age’ Cooling On The Way During the 20th and early 21st centuries, Earth’s inhabitants have enjoyed an epoch of very high solar activity that is rare or unique in the context of the last several thousand years. The higher solar activity and warmer temperatures have allowed the planet […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Solar, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 25. March 2017
Once again what follows is more inconvenient evidence showing that the sun is the main driver, and not singled out trace gas CO2. ==================================== The sun drives climate: Spain and Portugal By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) Does the sun influence climate? In today’s post we would […]
Posted in Solar |
By P Gosselin on 19. March 2017
Translated/edited from wobleibtdieerderwaermung.de. A huge hole in the magnetically hot corona of the sun in the coming weeks will lead to a powerful solar wind and initiate hefty polar lights in the earth’s magnetic field. This will be a brief pause in the solar activity slumber that has taken hold over the past year and […]
Posted in Solar |
By P Gosselin on 15. March 2017
The Sun In February and Arctic Sea Ice Von Frank Bosse und Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated and condensed [due to time constraints] by P. Gosselin) The star at the center of our solar system was also very inactive last month. The determined sunspot number SSN of 26.1 was only 50% of what is normal. Fig. 1: Mean […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Solar |
By Kenneth Richard on 2. March 2017
Solar Forcing Of Modern, Historic Arctic Sea Ice Only Slightly Less Sea Ice Now Than Little Ice Age In a new paper (Stein et al., 2017), scientists find that Arctic sea ice retreat and advance is modulated by variations in solar activity. In addition, the sea ice cover during the last century has only slightly […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology, Solar |
By Kenneth Richard on 20. February 2017
A Robust Sun-Climate Connection Increasingly Affirmed By Scientists “The emerging causal effects from SS [solar activity] to GT [global temperatures], especially for recent decades, are overwhelmingly proved” […]
Posted in Solar, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 17. February 2017
The sun in January 2017, and: a “pause” or not? By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt Translated/condensed by P Gosselin) In the previous month our sun was very quiet. A month earlier there had been little activity at first, but then picked up some later in the month. On average the sunspot number SSN was 25.8, […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Solar |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. January 2017
One of the oft-stated “truths” for advocates of the position that humans are predominantly responsible for climate changes is that the Sun could not have played more than a negligible role in the global warming of the last few centuries. Indeed, the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) report theorizes that the long-term solar […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Solar, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. January 2017
Note: Due to the very positive feedback of this post, I’ve decided to leave it up at the top spot for another day. -PG ============================================== In 1981, James Hansen was the Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He was also the lead author of a seminal paper published in the prestigious journal Science entitled […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Cooling/Temperature, Hockey Team, Paleo-climatology, Solar |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. January 2017
“It is generally accepted that the climate warms during periods of strong solar activity (e.g., the Medieval Warm Period) and cools during periods of low solar activity (e.g., the Little Ice Age).” — Lyu et al., 2016 Graph Source: WoodForTrees.org Scientists are increasingly tuning out the claims that the Earth’s temperatures are predominantly shaped by […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Solar, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 2. January 2017
Climate science is supposed to be settled, right? We are told that there is an overwhelming agreement, or consensus, among scientists that most weather and climate changes that have occurred since the mid-20th century have been caused by human activity — our fossil fuel burning and CO2 emissions in particular. We are told that natural mechanisms that […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Glaciers, Green Follies, Hockey Team, Models, Oceans, Scepticism, Sea Levels, Solar, Tectonics/Volcanoes, Weather |
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