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By P Gosselin on 29. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Sun In February 2019 By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) The sun was also very sub-normally active in February. Although we are in the middle of the minimum, the sunspot number of 0.8 for the 123rd month into the cycle is very low. On 26 days of the month […]
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By P Gosselin on 30. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe sun in December 2018 Von Frank Bosse und Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated / edited by P Gosselin) Our sun was also very sub-normally active in December last year. We are writing the 121st month since the beginning of cycle number 24, in December 2008, and since 2012 (when we started the blog […]
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By P Gosselin on 22. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterDanish Professor Henrik Svensmark is a leading physicist of cosmic radiation. At the end of last year he made a presentation at the 12th International Climate Conference in Munich, where he demonstrated that the climate is indeed modulated in large part by cloud cover, which in turn is modulated by solar activity in combination […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 21. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterFour climate scientists assert (1) the last ~130 years of temperature changes fit “perfectly” into statistical indices of natural variation, and (2) a long-term deep cooling of the Earth system has recently commenced. Image Source: Mao et al., 2019 An analysis published in the journal Atmospheric and Climate Sciences by 4 climate scientists reveals the 1880-2013 […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 13. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Kyoji Kimoto kyoji@mirane.co.jp 1. Warmer period of the 1930s In 1998 D. Dahl-Jensen et al. pointed out in the journal Science that the 1930s is 0.5°K warmer than the present time based on a bore-hole study of Greenland ice sheet. The following data support D. Dahl-Jensen’s findings, from Soon 2012. Also heat waves were […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 3. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn 2018, over 500 scientific papers were published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or that otherwise serve to question the efficacy of climate models or the related “consensus” positions commonly endorsed by policymakers and mainstream media sources. More than 500 scientific papers published […]
Posted in Alarmism, Alternative Energy, Antarctic, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Glaciers, Hockey Team, Hurricanes/Tornados, Natural Variability, Ocean Acidification, Paleo-climatology, Scepticism, Sea Ice, Sea Levels, Solar Sciences, Tectonics/Volcanoes, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth, Wind Power |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. December 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterGlobal Cooling On The Horizon? Image Source: Abdussamatov, 2012 When it comes to the Sun’s influence on climate, one conclusion is certain: there is no widespread scientific agreement as to how and to what extent solar activity and its related parameters (i.e., galactic cosmic rays, geomagnetic activity, solar wind flux) impact changes in the Earth’s temperature […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 26. December 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe sun in November 2018 By Frank Bosse and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated by P Gosselin) Our sun was also very much less active in November than normal, comparing all solar cycles 1-23 up to month no. 120 since since the beginning of the systematic survey in 1755, the first year of solar cycle 1.The […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 27. September 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe strong correlation between Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) and cloud formation has for decades been postulated as a primary mechanism for solar-driven natural climate change. Concisely, “When the Sun is active fewer cosmic rays reach the Earth and, with fewer low clouds, the world warms up” (Svensmark et al., 2017). Since about 2000, however, […]
Posted in Natural Variability, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 24. September 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn an interview at the Porto Climate Conference earlier this month, Dr. Karl Zeller provided a brief overview of the theory he and Dr. Ned Nikolov developed. The model uses empirical NASA data to quantify the surface temperature of “all the planets across our solar system” precisely and accurately by using two values only: (1) distance from […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Natural Variability, Scepticism, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 28. July 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterPublishing her work in a new peer-reviewed scientific textbook, Dr. Indrani Roy, a solar and climate scientist, has determined there is a “robust solar signal on climate” with observational results affirming the solar signature on sea surface temperature and annual mean air temperature. Roy, 2018 Solar Influence Around Various Places: Robust Solar Signal on Climate “This […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 11. June 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn two new papers, scientists affirm a strong connection between solar activity and the Earth’s climate, as temperatures are said to be 3 times more sensitive to solar forcing than CO2 forcing. With the advent of a grand minimum in the coming decades, a consequent “dampening” of temperatures (and slowing of sea level rise) […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cooling/Temperature, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 21. May 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterHailed as ‘the last piece of the puzzle’ in codifying our understanding of the mechanism(s) that cause climate changes, scientists are increasingly turning to Sun-modulated cosmic ray flux and cloud cover variations as the explanation for decadal- and centennial-scale global warming and cooling. In other words, climate changes are increasingly being attributed to natural […]
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By P Gosselin on 28. April 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterAs the current solar cycle nears an end, it will go down as the weakest in close to 200 years. And as inhabitants of the northern hemisphere dig themselves out of an especially icy and snowy winter and Arctic sea ice rebounds, it may all be in part linked to low solar activity as […]
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By P Gosselin on 6. April 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe addition of an esteemed Norwegian climate scientist to the London-based GWPF will help bring some sobriety back to a science that has all too often been immersed in alarmism. The London-based Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) recently announced Professor Ole Humlum of Norway was joining its Academic Advisory Council. This brings another persuasive […]
Posted in Models, Oceans, Scepticism, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 5. April 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterSolar Magnetic Field, Cosmic Rays/Clouds → Climate CO2 Has A ‘Zero Net Effect’ Dr. Rex J. Fleming, a former NOAA climate scientist who earned both his Master’s and Ph.D in meteorology, has published a new paper in the Environmental Earth Sciences journal that details the lack of an identifiable causal relationship between CO2 concentration changes and Earth’s temperature changes. […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. February 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Science Unsettles Image Source: Robertson and Chilingar, 2017 In just the first 8 weeks of 2018, 97 scientific papers have been published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or that otherwise serve to question the efficacy of climate models or the related “consensus” positions […]
Posted in Alarmism, Alternative Energy, Antarctic, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Glaciers, Hurricanes/Tornados, Medieval Warm Period, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology, Scepticism, Sea Levels, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 22. February 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitter‘Strong Influence Of Solar Activity’ On 1850s-2014 Ocean Temperatures, ‘Small Contribution From CO2’ According to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN-IPCC) and computer modeling, the Sun’s role in modern-era climate change checks in at somewhere slightly above nothing. Image Source: IPCC AR5 (2013) And yet it is increasingly evident that more and more scientists across […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 22. January 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitter Graph Source: Herrera et al., 2015 Graph Source: Russell et al., 2010 1. Oliva et al., 2018 Cold period during 1645–1706 (Maunder solar minimum). Cold period during 1810–1838 (Dalton solar minimum). Warm period during the mid-20th and 21st centuries (modern solar maximum). LIA [Little Ice Age] was characterized by a cold phase having […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 8. January 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitter Graph from Perner et al. (2018) that shows modern-day Arctic sea ice (furthest left navy trend line) is still only slightly lower than during the Little Ice Age (LIA), and much more extensive (more ice) than during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA), Roman Warm Period (RWP), and nearly all of the last 7,000 years. Song […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Solar Sciences |
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