The SOI still rules
Who would have thought that if you knew the air pressure in Darwin and Tahiti in June, you could figure out that the start of 2011 might be a Stalingrad Winter up North and a cooler wetter summer down...
View ArticleStudy finds global warming over past 400 years was due to increased Solar...
TODAY June 7th 2011: Phenomenal eruption on the sun (see the bottom of the post for more info). Apparently previous studies of the sun-climate connection looked at the equatorial polar magnetic field...
View ArticleMajor Drop in Solar Activity Predicted: Little Ice Age, part II?
Ominously, the embryonic markers of solar cycle 25 are three years late and are nowhere to be seen. Scientists are asking if this could be the start of another Maunder-type Minimum. (The bummer with...
View ArticleGlobal cooling coming? Archibald uses solar and surface data to predict 4.9°C...
David Archibald, polymath, makes a bold prediction that temperatures are about to dive sharply (in the decadal sense). He took the forgotten correlation that as solar cycles lengthen and weaken, the...
View ArticleHas North Victoria cooled, and is that the ghost of a solar cycle signal we see?
UPDATED AGAIN #4 — Now with Vukcevics Hale cycle graph of Echuca. and #3 David Archibalds suggestion of the Hale Cycle at work. #2 with Willis Eschenbach’s graph and my thoughts, (see below) Ian Bryce...
View ArticleSun controls half of the groundwater recharge rate in China for last 700 years
Could this be why climate models do rainfall with all the competence of tea-leaf-reading? Tiwari et al report that as much as 47% of the recharge rates of ground water in China are controlled by the...
View ArticleNew paper shows solar activity is linked to the Greenland climate even 20,000...
This new paper by Adophi et al uses beryllium, oxygen and carbon isotopes from Greenland ice cores right back as far as the depth of the last ice age, 22,500 years ago, and finds there is a link...
View ArticleSolar cycle affects human fertility and lifespan
David Archibald points at a very interesting paper that suggests that children conceived during solar activity peaks were less likely to survive and had a whopping 5 year deduction from their lifespan....
View ArticleThe Sun and solar physicists go quiet
Sometime around 2007 or 2008 the sun’s magnetic field should’ve become more active again as part of the cycle it had been roughly following for at least 80 years. Instead it fell. The current solar...
View ArticleIs a mini-ice age coming in 2030, and does the sun have two dynamos?
Is the Sun driven by two dynamos, each running on slightly different 11 year cycles? Many people are talking about a new forecast of a mini-ice age (which seems to be an increasingly popular thing to...
View ArticleSpotless Sun again. Even a little ice age won’t slow the Man-Made Climate...
Spotless Sun June 29th, 2016 | Spaceweather.com | SDO/HMI The Sun is spotless again. I hasn’t been this inactive for a hundred years. This week there are a spate of news stories about a little ice age...
View ArticleExperts Adrift: Solar Cycle 25 more active than expected
There’s an electromagnetic ball of fire that is 1.3 million times the size of Earth and just 8 minutes away by photon, and we really don’t know what’s going on there. Climate models assume the solar...
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