Category Archives: Maunder

Two Review Papers Conclude — It is the SUN! Not CO2.

Posted on May 9, 2013 by

Review paper on cosmoclimatology finds the Sun controls climate change, not CO2 A new SPPI & CO2 Science review paper entitled Solar Influence on Climate: Cosmic Rays reviews the literature on Svensmark’s theory of cosmoclimatologyand concludes, “Clearly, in light of … Continue reading →

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Paper predicts a sharp decline in solar activity!

Posted on April 16, 2013 by

A new paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Research shows solar activity peaked at the end of the 20th century, but predicts a strong decrease in solar activity until around 2100 AD to low levels similar to the … Continue reading →

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Global Warming and Climate Change: Science and Politics

Posted on April 15, 2013 by

Cliff Ollier School of Earth and Environmental Studies, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Department of Geoecology and Palaeogeography, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland   Abstract: The threat of dangerous climate change from anthropogenic global warming has decreased. Global … Continue reading →

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The Sun and Medieval Warm Period in Tibet

Posted on April 15, 2013 by

The No Tricks Zone has an interesting post debunking Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick, but for the readers of this blog it maybe the connection the Sun played in the warming of the Tibetan Plateau reported in the paper. You can … Continue reading →

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New Scripps Antarctica Research Confirms IPCC Wrong Regarding Little Ice Age

Posted on February 17, 2013 by

The IPCC claimed that the Little Ice Age was just in the Northern Hemisphere.  This research call that bit of factless story telling into question.  The LIA was global.  The U.S. has a research station located at the WAIS divide … Continue reading →

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Sorry Global Warming Alarmists, The Earth Is Cooling

Posted on February 3, 2013 by

Peter Ferrara, Writing in the Forbes Magazine last May, following the Heartland Climate Conference in Chicago. Don Easterbrook, Professor Emeritus of Geology at Western Washington University,  publicly predicted in 2000 that global temperatures would decline by 2010,  something the political … Continue reading →

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New book finds at least 63% of global warming was due to the Sun

Posted on February 2, 2013 by

The Hockey Schtick has the details: A chapter in the book, Global Warming – Impacts and Future Perspective, published in September 2012, finds that at least 63% of the global warming of the past 400 years was due to an … Continue reading →

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Global Warming: A Geological Perspective

Posted on January 16, 2013 by

A paper titled “Global Warming: A Geological Perspective,” published inEnvironmental Geosciences, and summarized below in Arizona Geology, should be required reading for all climate scientists. The paper notes that if ”the temperature increase during the past 130 years reflects recovery from the … Continue reading →

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New paper finds European temperatures are not unusual or unprecedented

Posted on January 14, 2013 by

A new paper published in Climate of the Past reconstructs temperatures in Switzerland from 1444 to 2011 on the basis of grape harvest dates and finds temperatures were about the same as today at the beginning of the record around 1450 … Continue reading →

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Solar Variability and Terrestrial Climate

Posted on January 9, 2013 by

Anthony Watt’s at WUWT discussed a new report issued by the National Research Council (NRC), “The Effects of Solar Variability on Earth’s Climate,” lays out some of the surprisingly complex ways that solar activity can make itself felt on our … Continue reading →

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