RSSNature News reports on a new solar study: Declining solar activity linked to recent warming The Sun may have caused as much warming as carbon dioxide over three years. An analysis of satellite data challenges the intuitive idea that decreasing solar activity cools Earth, and vice versa. In fact, solar forcing of Earth’s surface climate [...]
Lockwood et al have published a paper entitled: ‘Are cold winters in Europe associated with low solar activity?’ in Environmental Research Letters here. The Abstract states: Solar activity during the current sunspot minimum has fallen to levels unknown since the start of the 20th century. The Maunder minimum (about 1650–1700) was a prolonged episode of [...]
New measurements from a NASA satellite show a dramatic cooling in the upper atmosphere that correlates with the declining phase of the current solar cycle. For the first time, researchers can show a timely link between the Sun and the climate of Earth’s thermosphere, the region above 100 km, an essential step in making accurate [...]
Researchers in the US may have discovered further evidence that the Sun is heading towards an extended period of quiet activity, the like of which has not been seen since the 17th century. The impact this may have on climate is poorly understood but it would be good news for satellite communications, which would continue [...]
Nicola Scafetta has a new paper in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics: ‘Empirical analysis of the solar contribution to global mean air surface temperature change’ (doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2009.07.007) The Abstract states: The solar contribution to global mean air surface temperature change is analyzed by using an empirical bi-scale climate model characterized by both fast and [...]
Because it needs to be protected from the Sun! The scientists at the Real Climate (RC) weblog echo-chamber have recently launched another attack on the work of Nicola Scafetta. Scafetta does the unforgivable in the eyes of politically motivated climate alarmists and publishes peer reviewed papers claiming that the influence of the Sun on climate [...]
There’s a new GRL ‘paper in press’ entitled: ‘Taking the pulse of the Sun during the Holocene by joint analysis of 14C and 10Be’ by Knudsen, M. F., P. Riisager, B. H. Jacobsen, R. Muscheler, I. Snowball, and M.-S. Seidenkrantz (2009), Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2009GL039439 The Abstract states: We have studied solar variations during the [...]
The Sun is still blank (mostly). Read the article here.
Henrik Svensmark et al have a new GRL paper in press entitled: ‘Cosmic ray decreases affect atmospheric aerosols and clouds’ The Abstract states: Close passages of coronal mass ejections from the sun are signaled at the Earth’s surface by Forbush decreases in cosmic ray counts. We find that low clouds contain less liquid water following [...]
A new paper has been published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics by Jean-Louis Le Mouël, Elena Blanter, Mikhail Shnirman, and Vincent Courtillot, entitled: ‘Evidence for solar forcing in variability of temperatures and pressures in Europe.’ The Abstract states: Daily temperature and pressure series from 55 European meteorological stations covering the 20th century [...]
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New Booker Book: The Real Global Warming Disaster
Christopher Booker has a new book out entitled: The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is The Obsession With `Climate Change` Turning Out To Be The Most Costly Scientific Blunder In History?
Available from Amazon UK here:
More from Booker himself here. (1)
Why the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are Not Collapsing
Read the AIG News paper here. (1)
Global Warming Ate My Data
We’ve lost the numbers: CRU responds to FOIA requests.
The Register (3)
Climate Depot's Arctic Fact Sheet
Climate Depot Arctic Fact Sheet (for additional updates on the Arctic see new articles tagged Arctic) (0)
