If carbon didn’t warm us, what did?
Svensmarks Cosmic Ray Theory. TOP: If the sun’s magnetic field is weak it allows more cosmic rays, which may seed more clouds on Earth. BOTTOM: A strong solar magnetic field blocks the same rays and...
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 ArticleSolar activity was really at exceptional lows during the cold Maunder Minimum
Fig 3 (Part VI only) Sunspot drawing of by G.D. Cassini in 1671 (Oldenburg, 1671c). What is surprising is just how much data we have on the Sun from 400 years ago. For some aspects of solar activity we...
View ArticleThe solar wind dumps energy into the far upper atmosphere through a kind of...
UPDATE: Libby Plummer at The Daily Mail has a different take, calling this a natural thermostat that cools the upper atmosphere after solar storms. I guess we’ll have to wait to see the paper to see if...
View ArticleThe Sahara may flip from desert to grass every 20,000 years. Blame The Sun.
MIT researchers think they have solved a bit of a mystery regarding Sahara dust, but if they’re right it means the Sahara Desert has already come and gone 3 – 5 times since humans walked the Earth. The...
View ArticleSolar cycles to blame for jellyfish plagues (not coal fired plants)
Image Erin Silversmith Three amazing things in this story. One that solar cycles might influence the oceans to such an extent that jellyfish plagues are cycling in tune with the sun. Second is that the...
View ArticleNASA hides page saying the Sun was the primary climate driver, and clouds and...
ZeroHedge asks: What the hell are NASA Hiding? The NASA site used to have a page titled “What are the primary forcings of the Earth system?“. In 2010 this page said that the Sun is the major driver of...
View ArticleOminous space-weather: A mild Solar CME caused a bigger geomagnetic storm on...
This week a mild Coronal Mass Ejection off the sun blasted past Earth. It was only a mild CME with solar winds at 500km per second, which is a medium kind of speed. The experts were all predicting a G1...
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