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 |
By P Gosselin on 5. January 2020
Climate science and energy policy dissenters may need to be prepared to get fined, maybe sent to a mental institution or even imprisoned. German climate crazies are calling for it! German solar lobby, politicians calling for fines and even imprisonment of climate science skeptics. Solar industry lobby wants to punish climate emergency critics for sabotaging […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Scepticism |
By Kenneth Richard on 11. November 2019
International and NASA solar scientists find their Total Solar Irradiance reconstruction extending to 1700 can “correlate well” with Earth’s global temperature records, including a positive net TSI trend during 1986-2008. A new Grand Solar Minimum is expected to commence during the 2030s. Surface climate records that have been uncorrupted by coastal (ocean-air)/urbanization biases suggest there […]
Posted in Models, Solar Sciences, Temperature Bias/Urbanization |
By Kenneth Richard on 3. October 2019
In the last few years, hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific papers have been published linking changes in solar activity to Earth’s climate (2016, 2017, 2018). The evidence for a robust Sun-Climate connection continues to accumulate in 2019. When it comes to the Sun’s influence on climate, one conclusion is certain: there is no widespread scientific agreement […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 29. September 2019
Latest runs by the US NOAA weather agency show October and November being colder than normal. A negative NAO and low solar activity may be behind it. September is coming to an end and signs of autumn are everywhere. On everyone’s mind now is the question of what kind of winter to expect: bitter cold […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By P Gosselin on 7. September 2019
Cat 5 Hurricane “Dorian” showed a development parallel to a solar storm lasting several days, which reached the earth from 27 August to 4 September 2019. By Snowfan The strength of particle radiation of a solar storm is given as a three-hour value in the Kp index, the daily value is called the A index. […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 27. August 2019
How the sun impacts European climate By Die kalte Sonne (German text translated by P Gosselin) Images: NASA Observatory The gigantic nuclear fusion power plant of the sun reliably supplies the earth with energy. However, the IPCC’s current doctrine is that fluctuations in solar activity have no effect whatsoever on the Earth’s climate. Some climate […]
Posted in Solar |
By P Gosselin on 17. August 2019
Amazing: A proxy study of Laos finds natural variability in hydrometeorology, a little Ice Age, and other substantial climate changes in the pre-greenhouse gas era. Who would have thought! (sarcasm) Hat-tip: NTZ reader Mary Brown. University of California Irvine researcher Jessica Wang and her team of researchers find plenty of natural climate variability in Southeast […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology, Solar |
By P Gosselin on 22. June 2019
Solar Activity in May 2019 By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated/edited by P Gosselin) In May 2019 our sun was below-normal active again. The solar sunspot number (SSN) was 10.1, which is only 52% of the mean value in the evaluated cycle month no. 126 since the start of Cycle No. 24 began in […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 5. June 2019
Scientists think they found what drives the solar cycles, which a huge body of scientific literature suggests greatly impacts the climate on earth. Sun follows planets’ rhythm New study corroborates the influence of planetary tidal forces on solar activity Images: NASA (public domain) One of the big questions in solar physics is why the Sun’s […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 1. June 2019
Another new paper, which of course will be ignored by the government-funded IPCC because it contradicts claims CO2 drives climate, shows that natural factors dominated the earth’s climate variability. A team of scientists led by Jerome Goslin have published a paper titled Decadal variability of north-eastern Atlantic storminess at the mid-Holocene: New inferences from a […]
Posted in Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. May 2019
While it may seem counterintuitive, the expansion of wind and solar energy necessarily leads to the preservation and eventual growth in fossil fuel energy generation. This “paradox” hasn’t gone unnoticed. As good business practice, fossil fuel companies are now actively advocating for and investing in wind and solar technologies. In an analysis of energy return […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Solar, Wind Power |
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