Hey now….

Sunspot veteran dies at 78 – June 15, 2009
Posted for Quirin Schiermeier
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/06/sunspot_veteran_dies_at_78.html

At the end of the post is the following statement:

****
Irregular variations in the 11-year sunspot cycle are an endlessly appealing topic for all those who would rather believe that the sun – not fossil fuels – is driving current climate change.

Eddy distrusted wackiness in science, but he was well aware that his discoveries were alluring to obscurants.

“There is a hypnotism about cycles that seems to attract people. It draws all kinds of creatures out of the woodwork,” he once told science historian Spencer Weart.
****

The quotation which Quirin Schiermeier used was taken out of context in the hope that no one would check the source, so here is the source:

Interview with Jack Eddy, April 21, 1999
In Michigan by phone, conducted by Spencer Weart
http://www.agu.org/history/sv/solar/eddy_int.html

****
EDDY: I had been taught that while the Sun indeed affects the upper and outer atmosphere of the Earth, purported connections with the troposphere and weather and climate were uniformly wacky and to be distrusted. I still believe that to some extent, for there is a hypnotism about cycles that seems to attract people. It draws all kinds of creatures out of the woodwork. The claims that were made for associations between weather events and the Sun I thought were pretty preposterous. One of those that turned up was this notion that Gene told me about. About the work of Walter Maunder 100 years before, when he had thought that there was a prolonged period of time in the 1600s when the Sun wasn’t so active.

That really piqued my curiosity, and I began digging into it. The trail was, initially, purely historical, initiated by Gene Parker telling me about Maunder, and driven by my prejudice of trying to find examples from the past that would disprove, once and for all, the notion of strong sun-weather relations. A devout negativism on this subject was the gospel at the High Altitude Observatory anyway and the catechism that I had been taught and had taught to others. And although I was indeed an acolyte, I was trying to examine the early origins of Sun-weather claims, like unrolling and deciphering the Dead Sea scrolls of solar physics. But it was mostly a love of history that took me down the trail.
****

Yes, the AGW True Believers are very much aware of the work of Dr. Eddy and would like it to go away. In 2001 and again in 2002 I asked the question:

“If the evidence for global warming is that compelling, why is it necessary for those who believe in global warming, to misrepresent data in this manner to support their cause?”

I am still waiting for an answer!

Mike

Yours looks more like a phone (not phono) plug.

REPLY: I know what a banana plug looks like – and that above looks like one to me – feel free to create new artwork, I have more important things to do. – Anthony

Forgot to add my favourite saying, “the worst type of socialist in the world is a rich one”! e.g. Maurice Strong!

Absolutely right! I have a pink post-it on my desk to ring my good friend Marcus! Not Maurice! Ta once again – nice link btw!
AtB

BTW spaceweather.com is registering another tiny tim sun spot.

Knowing this man is a must to fully understand why global warming/climate change has become such a force. Strong is the consummate destroyer of worlds.

I would suggest reading up on this man and his minions.

I sincerely apologize for this distraction from what should be a post about a true scientist and authentic environmentalist. The loss of Dr. Eddy is a tough one. We must be vigilant in maintaining his legacy from the likes of Strong, Gore, Suzuki, Hansen/Mann/Scmidt etc. (The last three amounting to only one bad scientist really) What I find deliciously ironic is how the weather and nature itself is proving to be the ultimate undoing of these perverted,egotistical madmen. We need more of Dr. Eddy’s ilk.

Now back to regular programming…

Line 4 should read; Maurice Strong, not Marcus.

Best to know the enemy of man by name.

Cheers!

If I drive round with the handbrake still on that is not ‘masking’ my speed – its reducing my speed. If I use oversized wheels and tyres that would ‘mask’ my true speed.

Masking means hiding, which means something is happening but is hidden from the observer.

FYI, IMHO, the whole point about UN/IPCC/UK climate models showing a big manmade warming is to reinforce the doctrine/belief system to control humanity & redistribute wealth to the rest of the world, refer to Marcus Strong, Koffi Annan’s right-hand man @ the UN Rio Conference 1992 – I wasn’t aware that there was any real climate science undertaken in that regard unless it was incidental! The Puter rules – not!

Darned if I can figure out how to submit new information of interest to WUWT ……………..

There is a dot in the URL, here is the correct one:

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/39526

Interesting article, material for a WUWT post?

I have a complaint with regard to the graphic. It is unhelpful to me as you have not represented the earth and sun, plugged in?

I trust you will amend otherwise you may be called a Denier;-)