By P Gosselin on 10. March 2012
By Matti Vooro Recently I happened to look through some scientific papers and articles on global warming and the various forcing factors that affect our climate. One that caught my eye was a paper by N.A. Krivova and S.K. Solanki [2003] called: Solar variability and global warming: a statistical comparison since 1850. http://www.solen.info/solar/cyclcomp.html, web page prepared by Jan […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 9. March 2012
Professor Fritz Vahrenholt, author along with Dr. Sebastian Lüning of the skeptic German bestseller “Die kalte Sonne” had been invited to take part in the political talk show “hart aber fair” (tough but fair) on German public television, prime time Monday evening, March 12. That was before the show caved in and disinvited the tough-debating […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Media / Bias, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 8. March 2012
A Brazilian team of scientists led by Pabulo Henrique Rampelotto recently published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics a paper on precipitation and temperature patterns in Santa Maria in Southern Brazil. It’s the sun! What follows are excerpts from “Die kalte Sonne“ website. Brazilian agriculture and climate. Public domain by its author, […]
Posted in Oceans, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 7. March 2012
By Ed Caryl This is a follow-up article on GHCN and GISS changes to the temperature records for Reykjavik, Iceland. Figure 1: Reykjavik, Iceland: Photo from Christian Bickel We now know that GHCN has changed data set versions from version 2 to version 3. Each of those versions has a history. Version 2 was made […]
Posted in Arctic, Hockey Team |
By P Gosselin on 6. March 2012
When it comes to reviews of Fritz Vahrenholt’s and Sebastian Lüning’s controversial best-selling Die kalte Sonne book, now sweeping across Germany, Dr. Peter Heller, think tank member and contributor at the German Science Skeptical blog, has published what up to now has been one of the most thoughtful and insightful essays – a welcome change […]
Posted in Activism, Hockey Team, IPCC |
By P Gosselin on 6. March 2012
I’m a little short on time and so today I will present the translation of the latest write-up at Die kalte Sonne website, which discusses yet another recent study showing yet again that the sun plays a major role on climate. Solar Activity Shows Precipitation In Maine Over the Last 7000 Years By Sebastian Lüning and […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Paleo-climatology, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 5. March 2012
Fritz Vahrenholt’s and Sebastian Lüning’s Die kalte Sonne website brings up another study that shows the sun plays a significant role in climate development. How many more of these are we going to need? I don’t know why there are still people out there who deny what ought to be obvious. ============================== New Norwegian studies: […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 4. March 2012
Skeptic book by Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian Lüning “Die kalte Sonne” (see side bar) will begin its third week on the Spiegel bestseller list since it was first released on February 7. It shot up to number 14 on the bestseller list for German hardcover non-fiction books just a week after it was released. Last […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Scepticism, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 2. March 2012
A new paper titled High-resolution sea surface reconstructions off Cape Hatteras over the last 10 ka appearing just recently in the AGU Paleoceanography Journal authored by Caroline Cléroux et al provides further, clear evidence of a major solar impact on climate during the Holocene. Hat/tip: http://kaltesonne.de/. According to the paper’s abstract, the study presents high-resolution foraminiferal-based sea surface temperature, […]
Posted in Oceans, Paleo-climatology, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 2. March 2012
It wasn’t all that long ago when a number of climate scientists were projecting the Earth would soon fall into an almost permanent, increasing El Niño mode, where the surface temperatures of the equatorial Pacific would always be like what we saw in 1998 – all man-made. Sea surface temperature chart September 2011. Source: NASA. Today […]
Posted in Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 1. March 2012
Changing the Arctic Climate By Ed Caryl GISS and the GHCN are preoccupied with the Arctic, bestowing large “corrections” on the few and far northern stations. The raw data of the Arctic did not tell the story they wanted to hear, and so GISS took it upon themselves to rewrite it. Let’s start with Figure […]
Posted in Arctic |
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