I had my second-most-remarkable moment while at the Heartland climate skeptics’ conference in Chicago last week. The conference was terrific, for climate scientists, geologists, economists, NASA engineers, and interested attendees. The highlight for me, though, was Sebastian Lunning, who co-authored Germany’s best-selling new book The Cold Sun: Why the Climate Catastrophe Won’t Happen. Continue reading
Tag Archives: solar activity
Dennis T. Avery: My Second-Most-Remarkable Moment
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged solar activity, solar effects, solar influence, solar-climate nexus
David Archibald: Premonitions of the Fall (in temperature)
The first prediction of the current climatic minimum was made by Hubbert Lamb in 1970 in a report (Weiss and Lamb) for the German Navy. Continue reading
Hockey Schtick: New paper finds large increase in sunshine since the 1980′s; dwarfs alleged effect of CO2
A paper recently published in the journal Weather finds that global summer average sunshine [solar short-wave radiation that reaches Earth's surface] dimmed during the period 1958-1983 [prompting an ice age scare], but markedly increased from 1985-2010. Continue reading
Hockey Schtick: New paper finds solar activity and natural climate cycles explain rainfall variations over past 160 years
A paper published today in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics finds that sunspot numbers and the assumption of natural climate cycles “accurately reproduces” the patterns of rainfall in Fortaleza, Brasil “over the entire 160 years of observations.” Continue reading
NASA/Hathaway’s updated solar cycle prediction – smallest in 100 years
Uh-oh… the predicted size makes this the smallest sunspot cycle in about 100 years Continue reading
