Category Archives: Solar

CERN’s Jasper Kirkby On The Newest Unpublished Results Of CLOUD: “The Results Are Very Interesting”

Posted on May 19, 2013 by

P Gosselin at the No Tricks Zone writes: The Latest On The CLOUD Experiment at CERN By Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt On May 10, 2013, at the online Austrian ORF, there was a rare interview with the CLOUD Experiment director of the … Continue reading →

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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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Russian Scientists say period of global cooling ahead due to changes in the sun

Posted on April 29, 2013 by

Reblogged from Watts Up With That?: From Radio Voice of Russia: Russia’s Pulkovo Observatory: “we could be in for a cooling period that lasts 200-250 years” Scientists at Russia’s famous Pulkovo Observatory are convinced that the world is in for … 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 paper finds the Sun controlled climate change of Asian continent over past 12,000 years

Posted on March 25, 2013 by

HIGHLIGHTS • A complete Holocene sequence of loess and buried soils has been studied in Siberia • Climatic cycles of 1000 and 500 years are revealed using petromagnetic parameters • Such periods correspond to variations in solar insolation and sun … Continue reading →

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US Unprepared for Global Cooling

Posted on February 28, 2013 by

Press Release: Massive Erupting Sunspot May Foreshadow Cycle of Solar Hibernation but North America is Unprepared for Resulting Global Cooling Say Friends of Science Swept away by global warming climate change hysteria, governments are not ready for crop failures and … Continue reading →

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A graphical comparison of solar cycles 21, 22, 23 and 24

Posted on February 23, 2013 by

Solar cycle 24 has initially displayed much less activity than recent cycles. Based on statistical models the monthly smoothed sunspot number is likely to peak between 50 and 70 in 2013. Models based on solar polar magnetic field strength indicate … Continue reading →

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New paper shows 20th century solar activity was at highest levels of past 9,400 years

Posted on January 29, 2013 by

A new paper published in Astronomy & Astrophysics finds that solar activity may be influenced by gravitational torque from the orbital configuration of the planets. In addition, the authors show that solar activity during the 20th century was at the … 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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