By Kenneth Richard on 9. July 2018
The advocacy for widespread growth in renewable energy (especially wind, solar, and biomass) usage has increasingly become the clarion call of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) movement. And yet more and more published research documents the adverse effects of relying on renewables. Image: Wasili Karbe, cropped from video here. Over the course of the last year, […]
Posted in Green Follies, Solar, Wind Power |
By P Gosselin on 25. May 2018
The Sun in April 2018 By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated, edited and summarized by P Gosselin) The sun was inactive in April, as we currently find ourselves in the minimum between solar cycle (SC) 24 and the coming solar cycle 25. The recorded mean sunspot number (SSN) for April was 8.9, which is only […]
Posted in Arctic, Solar |
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 |
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