Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Debate: Space Weather and the Earth's Climate: What are the influences & the effect of an unusually deep solar minimum?
The format is a panel of scientists selected to cover a broad range of viewpoints: solar physics, climatology, climatesceptic, non-climatesceptic.
Prof. Henrik Svensmark: effects of cosmic rays on cloud formation.
Prof. Mike Lockwood: broad expertise in solar influences and in solar physics.
Prof. Kalevi Mursula: expert in long-term changes in the Sun and its effects in the heliosphere and in the near-Earth space and climate.
The Stanford Review » The Man-Made Myth
Stanford students are smart. They would never hassle themselves unnecessarily. Those who do change daily habits to cut carbon emissions merely subscribe to, and often propagate, popular faith.

We have grown up in a society in which the myth of man-made global warming is so thoroughly pervasive, doubt is heretical. But science proves human carbon dioxide emissions are not responsible for global warming. Understanding this fact, it is preposterous for us students to alter our lifestyles or sacrifice the wonderful benefits of technologies that rely on fossil fuels.
New geologic evidence of past periods of oscillating, abrupt warming, and cooling by Geologist Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Emeritus Professor at Western Washington University | Solar Cycle 25
At least 9 significant, abrupt periods of warming that resulted in retreat of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet are documented by moraines from successive glacial retreats in the Fraser Lowland of NW Washington l(Fig. 1). In addition, smaller multiple glacier recessions are found within the more prominent episodes of glacier retreat. As indicated by the amount of glacier recession between each of the successive moraines, the warming events were of greater magnitude than those observed in recent centuries.
FORECASTING THE FUTURE by Dr. Vincent Gray | Climate Realists
The following table shows a comparison between the “projections” of the IPCC and the observed figures, extrapolated to 2010 from the latest available information. It shows that the IPCC are within range of prediction for population, coal production, CO2 emissions and CO2 concentrations, but they are completely wrong on methane concentrations, global temperature change and sea level change.
A statistically significant cooling trend in RSS and UAH satellite data « Watts Up With That?
...this means that by RSS there is a 95% certainty that cooling is occurring outside of weather variation since 2002. Not that it’s that big of a big deal, but cooling is cooling right?
Update: “Climate Sensitivity Estimates: Heading Down, Way Down?” — MasterResource
Lindzen and Choi’s concluded that climate sensitivity to atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations is six times less than generally accepted—a conclusion that potentially overturns the current paradigm of scientific thinking.

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