Category Archives: cosmic rays

Crowdsourced Climate Complexity – Compiling the WUWT Potential Climatic Variables Reference Page

Posted on February 19, 2012 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments, which began on this thread on January, 15th 2011, and grew on January 22nd, 2011, February 10th, 2011, February 28th, 2011, June 30th, 2011 … Continue reading →

Posted in AMO, Announcements, Antarctic, Arctic, Carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, Citizen science, climate data, clouds, cosmic rays, dust storms, earth, education, energy, ENSO, Environment, feedbacks, flooding, forecasting, geothermal energy, global warming, hurricanes, Land use land cover change, lightning, measurement, Methane, modeling, oceans, PDO, Science, sea ice, snowfall, Temperature, tornadoes, UHI, weather | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 113 Comments

German skeptics Lüning and Vahrenholt respond to criticism

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

Foreword: Dr Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt, authors of a new controversial skeptic book now hitting German bookstores, have asked me to post their response to comments made by climate scientist Georg Feulner of the Potsdam Institute for Climate … Continue reading →

Posted in cosmic rays, Opinion | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 200 Comments

The Ridiculousness Continues – Climate Complexity Compiled

Posted on January 21, 2012 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments on this thread and several others documented within, I’ve been compiling a summary of all potential climatic variables in order to build a conceptual … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols, AMO, Antarctic, Arctic, climate data, clouds, cosmic rays, dust storms, earth, Earthquakes, energy, ENSO, feedbacks, geothermal energy, Gravity, hurricanes, Methane, oceans, PDO, petroleum, Science, sea ice, snow, solar, solar power, thorium power, tornadoes, wind power | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 264 Comments

New paper links cosmic rays, clouds, and temperature

Posted on September 11, 2011 by

This new paper shows what appears to be a link between Forbush descreases and terrestrial temperature change shortly afterwards. It is a short time scale demonstration of what Svensmark is positing happens on a longer climate appropriate time scale as … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, cosmic rays | Tagged , , , , , , , | 140 Comments

Nir Shaviv on the CLOUD experiment, worth a read

Posted on September 1, 2011 by

Israeli Astrophysicist Dr. Nir Shaviv posted a guest essay at Luboš Motl The Reference Frame titled: The CLOUD is clearing In a nutshell he’s saying that cosmic ray flux modulated by solar variability has a strong place right alongside CO2, and … Continue reading →

Posted in cosmic rays, solar | 174 Comments

BREAKING NEWS – CERN Experiment Confirms Cosmic Rays Influence Cloud Seeds

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

UPDATE: see some reactions to this announcement here From the GWPF This refers to the CLOUD experiment at CERN. I’ll have more on this as it develops (updated twice since the original report now), but for the short term, it … Continue reading →

Posted in cosmic rays | Tagged , , , , , | 758 Comments

Antimatter belt discovered around Earth

Posted on August 8, 2011 by

This has been covered widely today, here is a sampling of stories and reference: From the BBC: Antimatter belt around Earth discovered by Pamela craft A thin band of antimatter particles called antiprotons enveloping the Earth has been spotted for … Continue reading →

Posted in cosmic rays, space | 50 Comments

Weekly Weather and Climate News Roundup

Posted on July 24, 2011 by

Quote of the Week: “From the household perspective, reductions in energy expenditures act like a tax cut for the Pennsylvania economy, increasing discretionary income.” Penn State report on natural gas from shale. – – – – – – – – … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News Roundup, cosmic rays | Tagged , , , , | 6 Comments

CERN: “Don’t interpret the CLOUD experiment results”

Posted on July 18, 2011 by

From the Register and Nigel Calder’s blog via bunches of people who submitted in Tips and Notes, hints of a new project, the RCC (Real Climate Collider) /sarc. CERN ‘gags’ physicists in cosmic ray climate experiment What do these results … Continue reading →

Posted in cosmic rays | Tagged , , | 183 Comments

Earth’s Climate System Is Ridiculously Complex – With Draft Link Tutorial

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” I am often amused by claims that we understand Earth’s climate system, are able to accurately measure its behavior, eliminate all potential variables except CO2 as the primary driver of Earth’s temperature and make … Continue reading →

Posted in AMO, Antarctic, Arctic, cosmic rays, earth, education, ENSO, modeling, oceans, Radiation, rainfall, sea ice | Tagged , , , , | 332 Comments

Indirect Solar Forcing of Climate by Galactic Cosmic Rays: An Observational Estimate

Posted on May 20, 2011 by

By Dr. Roy Spencer, PhD (reprinted from his blog with permission) UPDATE (12:35 p.m. CDT 19 May 2011): revised corrections of CERES data for El Nino/La Nina effects. While I have been skeptical of Svensmark’s cosmic ray theory up until … Continue reading →

Posted in cosmic rays | Tagged , , | 419 Comments

New study links cosmic rays to aerosols/cloud formation via solar magnetic activity modulation

Posted on May 17, 2011 by

From an Aarhus University press release: Scientists at Aarhus University (AU) and the National Space Institute (DTU Space) show that particles from space create cloud cover New input to the United Nations climate model: Ulrik Ingerslev Uggerhøj, Physics and Astronomy, … Continue reading →

Posted in cosmic rays | Tagged , , , | 111 Comments

“People underestimate the power of models. Observational evidence is not very useful.”

Posted on May 16, 2011 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls Andrew Orlowski at the UK Register has an anecdotal account of Downing College’s skeptics-vs-believers mash-up. Ace of Spades pulled the juiciest bit: In short, the day lined up Phil Jones, oceanographer Andrew Watson, and physicist … Continue reading →

Posted in cosmic rays | Tagged , , , , , | 132 Comments

Update on the CERN CLOUD experiment

Posted on May 14, 2011 by

WUWT reader Max_B tips us off to this article and video. According to Nigel Calder’s Blog, CERN’s CLOUD experiment (testing Svensmarks’s cosmic-ray theory) shows a large enhancement of aerosol production and the results are due for release in 2 or … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols, cosmic rays | Tagged , , , , | 128 Comments

Canadian Harp Seals In New England (“prediction” of cooling?)

Posted on March 21, 2011 by

Canadian Harp Seals may have “read” the predictions of the coming decades of stabilization of global temperatures and perhaps some cooling. Animals like the Harp Seal have experienced many millions of years of climatic change and, through the complex processes … Continue reading →

Posted in climate_change, cosmic rays, Environment, modeling, Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , | 159 Comments

The minimal solar activity in 2008–2009 and its implications for long‐term climate modeling

Posted on March 19, 2011 by

This is a new paper in Geophysical Research Letters by C. J. Schrijver, W. C. Livingston, T. N. Woods, and R. A. Mewaldt. WUWT readers may recognize Livingston as the creator of one of the datasets we regularly follow graphically … Continue reading →

Posted in cosmic rays, Science, solar | Tagged , , , , , , | 204 Comments

In light of radiation fears, I offer this repost

Posted on March 17, 2011 by

Going bananas over radiation With all the worries over radiation leaks from Japan, and hoarding of Potassium Iodide tablets, I thought it valuable to repost a link to this story from last month which was very popular.

Posted in Alarmism, cosmic rays, Current News | Tagged , , , | 130 Comments

Solar news: Forbush decrease in progress

Posted on February 19, 2011 by

The definition at Wikipedia: A Forbush decrease is a rapid decrease in the observed galactic cosmic ray intensity following a coronal mass ejection (CME). It occurs due to the magnetic field of the plasma solar wind sweeping some of the … Continue reading →

Posted in cosmic rays, solar | Tagged , , , , | 78 Comments

New paper: Cosmic rays contribute 40% to global warming

Posted on January 21, 2011 by

From the Hindu Physicist U.R. Rao says carbon emission impact is lower than IPCC claim A key belief of climate science theology — that a reduction in carbon emissions will take care of the bulk of global warming — has … Continue reading →

Posted in cosmic rays, IPCC | Tagged , , , , , | 65 Comments

NASA gets CREAMed

Posted on December 22, 2010 by

No, it is not what you think…

Posted in cosmic rays | Tagged , , , , , , , | 49 Comments

Cosmically, Heliospherically, and Terrestrially, FYI

Posted on December 18, 2010 by

Last night I decided to have a look at the Space Weather Prediction Center solar charts to see how the geoplanetary magnetic index (Ap) was doing, and decided since I was too tired, I’d put it off until this morning. … Continue reading →

Posted in cosmic rays, solar | Tagged , , , | 82 Comments

Preliminary results for the CERN CLOUD cosmic ray experiment

Posted on December 16, 2010 by

From Nature blog: Sunny days for CLOUD experiment An experiment designed to investigate the link between solar activity and the climate has its first results in the bag. At the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco today, Joachim Curtius … Continue reading →

Posted in cosmic rays, Science | Tagged , , , , | 133 Comments

Something to be thankful for! At last: Cosmic rays linked to rapid mid-latitude cloud changes

Posted on November 25, 2010 by

UPDATE: Lead author Ben Laken responds in comments below. I’ve reported several times at WUWT on the galactic cosmic ray theory proposed by  Henrik Svensmark which suggests that changes in the sun’s magnetic field modulate the density of Galactic Cosmic … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, cosmic rays | 386 Comments

Stubborn Antarctic Ozone Hole refuses to change

Posted on November 12, 2010 by

Maybe it is because the major catalyst isn’t CFC’s after all? See this story: Galactic Cosmic Rays May Be Responsible For The Antarctic Ozone Hole In the conclusions of the paper here (PDF) there is this: Thus, the above facts (1)–(5) … Continue reading →

Posted in CFC's, cosmic rays, ozone | 114 Comments

Length of day correlated to cosmic rays and sunspots

Posted on October 3, 2010 by

From techno-science.net This tip came in on our tip & notes page, and at first I was quite surprised because I could not see a possible mechanism for it. Then as I read the translation (from French) it started to … Continue reading →

Posted in cosmic rays, earth, solar | 153 Comments