By P Gosselin on 19. May 2021
A new, shattering study by scientists shows natural El Niño Southern Oscillations (ENSO) are undoubtedly linked to the 22-year Hale solar cycle – far beyond any coincidence. NOTHING TO DO WITH CO2. German climate news site Die Klimaschau, Episode 36, reports on the new findings published in the journal of Earth and Space Science by […]
Posted in Misc. |
By Kenneth Richard on 11. March 2021
Two new studies refer to the natural decline in cloud and aerosol reflectivity and consequent rise in incoming solar radiation or sunlight duration as the explanation for warming trends across Europe. CO2 is not even mentioned as a factor in climate change. Scientists point out that, for Europe, “the decrease in cloud cover is caused […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 15. January 2021
Although Germany sees about as many hours of sunshine as Alaska, the country is pushing for ever larger solar farms. Germany business daily Handelsblatt here reports that power company EnBW is currently building a 500 MW solar panel park in Brandenburg, 30 km east of Berlin. It reported that it will be able to provide […]
Posted in Alternative Energy |
By Kenneth Richard on 22. October 2020
European winter temperature variability is “dominated” by the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), which is, in turn, modulated by solar activity. Even proponents of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) agree natural processes (AMO, NAO, ENSO, solar forcing, volcanism) drive temperature variability. But they insist the rising temperature trend is human-caused. So if we don’t have a regional […]
Posted in Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 16. October 2020
SnowFan here reports on the latest winter forecasts for the 2020/21 Europe winter. History and statistics show Europe could be in for a frosty winter. Currently a significant La Nina is shaping up, and history shows that these events in the Pacific have an impact on Europe’s winters: The NOAA reanalysis above shows the temperature […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. August 2020
During the last Grand Solar Minimum (17th century), global surface temperatures dipped to the coldest of the last 10,000 years – about 1.4°C colder than today. Dr. Zharkova, an astrophysicist, has determined another imminent drop in solar activity will lead to a 1°C cooling in the coming decades. From 1645 to 1710, the Sun went […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Sea Ice, Solar
By Kenneth Richard on 25. May 2020
In a new climate reconstruction for the Tibetan Plateau (Liang et al., 2020), scientists report a) the highest Holocene temperatures occurred about 8,500 to 6,000 years ago; b) “century-scale climate fluctuations” correlate “statistically and visually” with solar forcing estimates; and c) “we are in the middle of the 500-yr-long relatively warm period” and “this natural […]
Posted in Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 12. May 2020
Elsevier has accepted a new paper by Lüdecke et al, 2020, showing natural oceanic and solar cycles play a large role in modulating Europe’s climate. Offers new chances for robust midterm temperature prognoses. The paper, in press, journal pre-proof, analyzes natural variability in European monthly temperatures on decadal and multidecadal timescales and their possible drivers. […]
Posted in Oceans, Solar |
By Kenneth Richard on 11. May 2020
An observational analysis of photometric evidence suggests solar forcing of Earth’s atmosphere could vary by as much as ±4.5 W/m² since 1750, which is “far larger than the IPCC estimate of −0.30 to +0.10 W/m²” (Judge et al., 2020). A 2017 study suggested the solar activity during the “modern maximum period from 1940 to 2015” […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 9. May 2020
Image: NASA Earth Observatory. Public Domain Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt’s Monthly Solar Report The global mean temperature in April 2020 was again significantly lower than in February and March, at 0.38°C above the average from 1981 to 2010. The average temperature increase on the globe from 1981 to February 2020 was 0.14°C per decade. The further […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 25. March 2020
Dr. Ludger Laurenz The sun has left its signature in data from numerous weather stations, thus challenging meteorologists and climate researchers who falsely claim the sun plays only a minor role. Image: NASA Earth Observatory (public domain). In the 11-year sunspot cycle (Schwabe cycle), the sun generates a start impulse in the sunspot maximum year. Triggered […]
Posted in Misc., Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 2. March 2020
Using NASA’s MERRA-2 radiation data, scientists find shortwave radiation (SW) has been rising since the 1980s. The SW increase has been larger and faster than longwave radiation (LW) changes during this same timespan. Cloud variability has been the “main driver” of these trends. Image Source: Delgado-Bonal et al, 2020 In a new Nature journal paper (Delgado-Bonal […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, Solar Sciences |
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