Tag Archives: Henrik Svensmark

Dana Nuccitelli’s holiday trick for sobering up quick: put a little less rum in your egg nog

Posted on December 28, 2012 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls When he argues that a reduction in forcing will cause cooling Dana Nuccitelli is not actually talking about drinking. He is talking about the solar forcing of global temperature, but the drinking analogy is a handy … Continue reading →

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Weather Channel Founder John Coleman’s special video report on Svensmark’s theory of cosmic ray induced climate change

Posted on May 1, 2012 by

I had the opportunity to talk with John at length during the Weather Channel 30th anniversary reunion which I attended (and live blogged) this past weekend in Atlanta (thanks so very much to all of you who helped with travel … Continue reading →

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Posted on April 29, 2012 by

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what … Continue reading →

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From Schmidt 2005 to Miller 2012: the “not needed” excuse for omitted variable fraud

Posted on April 29, 2012 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls Miller et al. 2012 recently provided some pretty strong evidence for a solar driver of climate. “This is the first time anyone has clearly identified the specific onset of the cold times marking the start … Continue reading →

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Svensmark’s Cosmic Jackpot: “Evidence of nearby supernovae affecting life on Earth”

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

Note: I’m going to leave this as a sticky “top post” for a day or so. new stories appear below. Nigel Calder asks us to republish this post for maximum exposure. He writes: Today the Royal Astronomical Society in London … Continue reading →

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Spencer’s posited 1-2% cloud cover variation found

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

In a nutshell, with a −1.6%per decade change in cloud cover during 1954–2005, it becomes a climate forcing. While China is not the world, it bears consideration. The Hockey Schtick reports: New paper finds significant, natural decrease in cloudiness over … Continue reading →

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Nigel Calder reports on “Yet another trick of cosmic rays”

Posted on March 1, 2012 by

Reblogged from Calder’s Updates In the climax to the Danes’ experiments, cloud seeds flout the theories Near to the end of the story that starts with stars exploding in the Galaxy and ends with extra clouds gathering, a small but … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Headlines over solar cycle 25 and potential global cooling

Posted on January 29, 2012 by

There’s a story about solar cycle 25, and a potential “mini ice age” in the UK Daily Mail by David Rose that is making headlines today, even hitting the Drudge Report. The headline is: Forget global warming – it’s Cycle … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Some reactions to the CLOUD experiment

Posted on August 25, 2011 by

CERN Finds “Significant” Cosmic Ray Cloud Effect Best known for its studies of the fundamental constituents of matter, the CERN particle-physics laboratory in Geneva is now also being used to study the climate. Researchers in the CLOUD collaboration have released … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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“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 →

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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 →

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Courtillot on the solar UV climate connection

Posted on April 5, 2011 by

From the HockeySchtick Video: Geophysicist explains how the Sun controls climate, not CO2 Dr. Vincent Courtillot is a professor of geophysics at the University Paris-Diderot and Chair of paleomagnetism and geodynamics of the Institut Universitaire de France. In the recent lecture below he … Continue reading →

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Normal Seasons of the Sun (GW Tiger)

Posted on January 23, 2011 by

Guest post by Ira Glickstein PhD. We had joy, we had fun, we had Seasons of the Sun. But the mountains we climbed were but whimsies of our minds. That song (apologies to Terry Jacks) could well be the theme … Continue reading →

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