Via the GWPF: Recent research by Professor Valentina Zharkova (Northumbria University) and colleagues has shed new light on the inner workings of the Sun. If correct, this new discovery means that future solar cycles and variations in the Sun’s activity can be predicted more accurately.
The research suggests that the next three solar cycles will see solar activity reduce significantly into the middle of the century, producing conditions similar to those last seen in the 1600s – during the Maunder Minimum. This may have implications for temperatures here on Earth. Future solar cycles will serve as a test of the astrophysicists’ work, but some climate scientists have not welcomed the research and even tried to suppress the new findings.
New Solar Research Raises Climate Questions, Triggers Attacks
To most of us the sun seems unchanging. But if you observe its surface, it is seething with vast explosions and ejections. This activity has its origin in intense magnetic fields generated by swirling currents in the sun’s outer layer – scientists call it the solar dynamo.
It produces the well-known 11-year solar cycle which can be seen as sunspots come and go on the sun’s surface.
But models of the solar dynamo have only been partially successful in predicting the solar cycle – and that might be because a vital component is missing.
After studying full-disc images of the sun’s magnetic field, Professor Valentina Zharkova of Northumbria University and colleagues, discovered that the sun’s dynamo is actually made of two components – coming from different depths inside the sun.
The interaction between these two magnetic waves either amplifies solar activity or damps it down. Professor Zharkova’s observations suggest we are due for a prolonged period of low solar activity.
Professor Valentina Zharkova:
We will see it from 2020 to 2053, when the three next cycles will be very reduced magnetic field of the sun. Basically what happens is these two waves, they separate into the opposite hemispheres and they will not be interacting with each other, which means that resulting magnetic field will drop dramatically nearly to zero. And this will be a similar conditions like in Maunder Minimum.
What will happen to the Earth remains to be seen and predicted because nobody has developed any program or any models of terrestrial response – they are based on this period when the sun has maximum activity — when the sun has these nice fluctuations, and its magnetic field [is] very strong. But we’re approaching to the stage when the magnetic field of the sun is going to be very, very small.
She suggests it could be a repeat of the so-called Maunder Minimum – a period in the 17th century with little solar activity that may have influenced a cooling on Earth.
Whatever we do to the planet, if everything is done only by the sun, then the temperature should drop similar like it was in the Maunder Minimum. At least in the Northern hemisphere, where this temperature is well protocoled and written. We didn’t have many measurements in the Southern hemisphere, we don’t know what will happen with that, but in the Northern hemisphere, we know it’s very well protocoled. The rivers are frozen. There are winters and no summers, and so on.
So we only hope because these Maunder Minima will be shorter, the Maunder Minimum of the 17th century was about 65 years, the Maunder Minimum which we expect will be lasting not longer than 30-35 years.
Of course things are not the same as they were in the 17th century – we have a lot more greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. And it will be interesting to see how the terrestrial and the solar influences play out.
This is promising research – a new insight into our sun with predictions as to its future behavior, yet Professor Zharkova relates than some climatologists resented her discovery.
Professor Valentina Zharkova:
Some of them were welcoming and discussing. But some of them were quite — I would say — pushy. They were trying to actually silence us. Some of them contacted the Royal Astronomical Society, demanding, behind our back, that they withdraw our press release. The Royal Astronomical Society replied to them and CCed to us and said, ‘Look, this is the work by the scientists who we support, please discuss this with them.’ We had about 8 or 10 exchanges by email, when I tried to prove my point, and I’m saying, I’m willing to look at what you do, I’m willing to see how our results we produced and what the sun has explained to us. So how this is transformed into climate we do not produce; we can only assume it should be. So we’re happy to work with you, and add to your data our results. So don’t take the sunspots which you get, we can give you our curve. Work with our curve. So they didn’t want to.
Professor Zharkova’s work may have significantly improved our ability to forecast solar activity. If we do enter a new Maunder Minimum, then we are bound to discover new things about our sun and its influences on our climate.
solar constant = does not exist
Just like Climate stasis does not exist.
With a large enough Grant anything can be proved, kind of anyhow.
With a large enough lever, you can move the world too. 😉
The solar constant is the maximum amount of solar energy per unit of area that falls on the surface of the earth. Somewhere around 600 watts/ sq. meter. But you knew that.
[??? The solar constant is the yearly average energy received ABOVE the earth’s atmosphere at the average earth-sun distance per square meter perpendicular to the sun. Closer to 1362 watts/m^2 than to 600/watts/m^2. .mod]
Large enough hockey stick, anyway.
Nice touch!
A number of years ago, I was angrily lectured by an atmospheric scientist, and he informed me, in no uncertain terms, that “insolation is a CONSTANT!”
You have to take things in context. If he meant that up till now from the time of the Industrial Revolution, he’s right, which means up till now we can say that warming has not been caused by solar changes. If that’s not true in the future, that’s a different matter.
He meant the models say so!
But it demonstrably isn’t.
The higher energy component of TSI fluctuates by about 100%.
The sun is a variable star, especially in the high energy part of its spectrum.
Which is not really a valid point. It is like saying that a billionaire’s wealth is measured by the number of loose gold coins in his pockets.
@ the Maunder minimum there were no $ billionaires or micro-sunspots, only pound weights and eyeball sunspots.
> solar constant = does not exist
Why only ‘solar’? There are no provably exact constants (i.e. coefficient and rate measures) in physics. Even the so-called gravitational constant varies on a cosmological scale, so trying to discover entities with properties that are “exactly constant” is hopeless.
Rather, the challenge to physicists is observe and find measures that can be assumed to be nearly constant under conditions that permit testable hypotheses to be simplified to the extent that useful predictions can be made. (“Simple as possible”, Einstein said, “but not too simple”).
For example, the ratio of pendulum-length over gravitational force is not exactly a constant. It also depends on the amplitude of the pendulum. But for small angles the ratio is ‘constant enough’ to build clocks accurate enough for everyday use.
The total solar irradiation, aka ‘solar constant’, varies slightly (~0.1% over the duration of an 11-year solar cycle. This is virtually a constant, considering that the variation in TSI caused by the Earth’s orbital eccentricity is an order of magnitude larger.
Meteorology/climatology is saturated with simplifying assumptions of constancy.
This is virtually a constant, considering that the variation in TSI caused by the Earth’s orbital eccentricity is an order of magnitude larger.
Almost TWO orders of magnitude larger…
Yet that ~0.1% equals the 2 watts/sqm of variance that accounts for a majority of the observed warming. Add in the data from surfacestations.org that shows that up to half of observed warming is solely Urban Heat Island effects of land use changes of urbanization, from forest to field, field to farm, farm to surburb, suburb to urban, urban to right next to the HVAC in the middle of the parking lot. So, how much of the remaining 10-20% maybe, at most, are you saying is actually due to CO2 (and not to, say, Methane, or CHC, or changes in aerosols, or soot, or a host of other factors)? Evans has shown that CO2 is maybe, at most, 10% of the observed warming. Now, how much of that CO2 is man made, vs a reaction of the ecology to previous natural warming, that often lags warming by 50-200 years?
Well you are wrong on [that] assertion.
The values of (c) (epsilon-nought) and (mu-nought) are exact and never change.
Also the value of (g), the standard gravitational acceleration due to earth’s gravity is also exact. at 9.80665 ms^-2.
Now that last one is tricky.
That is NOT what the actual earth gravity is at any point. It IS the defined value for the term: one (g) = 9.80665 ms^-2.
But of course the acceleration due to gravity on earth is seldom exactly one (g) (gee).
But the other three are exact, +/- nothing.
G
Correct me if wrong. I’m not a physicist nor do I play one on blogs, but IMO the maximum speed of light is a constant. Recent work shows that under some regimes, it can be a bit slower than that maximum, however.
I don’t know if the rate of acceleration of the universe has been observed to be constant or not.
how about speed of light?
in vacuum of course….
re: speed of light and other physical constants etc.
As I said above, their “constantness” (i.e. time independence) cannot be proven in a mathematical sense, only proposed in theory and verified by observation. So constant for all practical purposes, but subject to change on a large scale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_constant#Tests_on_time-independence
“By definition, fundamental physical constants are subject to measurement, so that their being constant (independent on both the time and position of the performance of the measurement) is necessarily an experimental result and subject to verification.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_speed_of_light
Nothing in science is “provable” in a mathematical sense.
Science is testable and falsifiable, not “provable”. Proof is a mathematical concept or operation, not scientific.
The constant of the speed of light is observed, not “proved”, which is a human concept. Observation is a fact, not a concept.
Scientific integrity is likewise an assumed constant that seems to be diminishing in the modern era, at least in some fields. I almost said disciplines but most climate studies are anything but!
I should say concept or construct.
Science is reality. Math is a useful fiction.
I can give you one cast iron constant. My wife wont let me watch motor sports.
Death, taxes, the guy in front of you always taking the last parking space.
The total solar irradiation, aka ‘solar constant’, varies slightly
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The unstated assumption behind TSI is that earths climate responds to watts/m^2 above all else.
However, a boiling pot of water remains at 100 C no matter how much you turn up the heat. Yet if you change the air pressure in the room, the temperature of the pot of water will change! Yet if you were to tell 100 people this simple fact, probably 99 of them would tell you that you were wrong.
This very simple experiment shows the fallacy of trusting thought over observation as the means to deduce science and nature. What seems logical often turns out to be wrong, and what seems illogical often turns out to be correct.
re: speed of light and other physical constants etc.
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what about the speed of light in water as compared to a vacuum? light travels only 3/4 as fast through water as it does through space. Light travels slower through air as compared to through space.
Even in space the constant speed of light requires that clocks and distances are variable in absolute terms, depending upon the speed and acceleration of the observer. so if clock and distances are not constant, how can one trust that distance/time is constant? and if distance/time is not constant, then speed is not constant, and thus the speed of light is not constant.
C is not necessarily a constant, it is defined by the permittivity of free space ε0 – It is ε0 that is the perceived constant which then results in C being nearly constant in an (Approximate) vacuum. However is ε0 really unchanging, for example what “Bends space time” near masses or bends the path of photons near black hole event horizons. Does gravity affect ε0 and therefore C?
As I recall it the statement is actually not that C is a constant but rather C can’t exceed the Maximum of its speed in a medium with the permittivity of free space, that is, there is no known medium with permittivity LESS than that of a vacuum.
We try to apply that constant over all of spacetime, however is that true?, for example is the redshift not due to acceleration, but due to the expansion of the universe causing a reduction in the (density) permittivity of free space over time?
It’s much more interesting to ponder the things we don’t know than the things we don’t
Do democrats have a tax plan waiting for the cooling phase too?
Them Crimeatologists probably do
“This is virtually a constant, considering that the variation in TSI caused by the Earth’s orbital eccentricity is an order of magnitude larger.
Almost TWO orders of magnitude larger…”
You say that is though solar irradiation is the only variable. Variations in solar magnetic flux and solar wind, its associated impact on cosmic radiation, and cloud formation could be very significant.
You can be sure that the solution to global cooling will be exactly the same was global warming … stop using fossil fuels, and give the government your money.
Cooling is climate change too.
We might have got the sign wrong but there’s no doubt now it’s worse than we thought and ditto the funds.
Sure. Already in place. Higher taxes on the fossil fuels people will have to burn to stay warm during colder winters.
If we return back to the frigid ’60s and ’70s, heating oil and gas will go through the roof, so to speak. The poor will freeze to death without subsidies, despite high hydrocarbon production these days.
It’s the “solar more-or-less-constant”.
Climate change biggest scam ever
“Of course things are not the same as they were in the 17th century – we have a lot more greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. And it will be interesting to see how the terrestrial and the solar influences play out.”
And if the terrestrial things have no effect?
Over the short term, the effect of any insulator is to keep its object warmer than it would be otherwise. CO2 is not really a warming gas so much as it is an insulating gas. The same can be said for H2O although H2O is obviously more important because it is a major source of enthalpy transport. If the source of energy to any object surrounded by an insulator is reduced the temperature of the object will begin to fall after a time lag that depends on its ability to store enthalpy. The TSI has been empirically known to vary with the solar magnetic field. We should have a lower TSI for the next 30 years at least. It has been my observation over time that the temperature of the contents of any tea kettle depends more on the height of the flame under the kettle than the contents of the kettle. All being equal, this will yield a colder period in the future.
C14 calibration curves appear to be compatible with theories such as those advanced by Svensmark.
It’s ok. The CO2 will eventually be wafted into space by the solar wind.
http://sci.esa.int/cluster/58028-the-curious-case-of-earth-s-leaking-atmosphere/
“we have a lot more greenhouse gas in the atmosphere”
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My objection is in your use of ” a lot more “. The reality is we are still talking in the Parts Per Million are we Not? So let’s not use Exaggeration
To put it in familiar terms, the amount of CO2 added to the atmosphere over the last century is the same, proportionally, as adding ten people to a full football stadium.
Talk about over crowded
A lot more IS a relative term …Relative to a preindustrial measurement of 280ppm we’ve increased that by 120ppm or not quite a 50% increase
Indeed. Couldn’t agree less. It is not remotely feasible that a change to a tiny quantity could have any effect on, say, plant growth. The smallness of the numbers proves this beyond any doubt.
1.2 parts per 10,000 over the last 150 years. I always wondered to what the CO2 replaced, Oxygen, and Carbon, Nitrogen, I doubt if atmospheric density has varied much, since there’s no actual container. It would just expand upwards. Therefore the density should remain fairly constant?
Interesting note, that increasing CO2 levels are very beneficial above 6000 feet altitude where plants normally begin having difficulty respirating.
Phil Bickel
You have to look at the rest of the atmosphere to understand that the “what does it replace?” question really doesn’t matter.
Count what is in a “Pure and pristine atmosphere” – You know, the one that existed before that nasty industrial revolution that has saved so many lives:
Find some 1,000,000 gas molecules. 780,000 nitrogens 210,000 oxygens 1,000 water vapors (varies !) 900 Argons 280 CO2 992,180Today, we have added (according to conventional theory) 120 more CO2 molecules to the mix, but that burned (consumed some 120 of the O2 molecules (240 Oxygen atoms), did it not?)
So, today we have 780,000 nitrogens, as N2 209,880 oxygen, as O2s 1,000 water vapors (varies !) 900 Argons (as Ar) 400 CO2 992,180Total gas pressure goes up?
Theoretically?
Really? Nah.
Oxygen goes down? Not really.
CO2 goes up? Yes, and the world is better because of it.
It is all in the multipliers. The CAGW models produce no noticeable heating UNLESS you add in feedback with multipliers of the water vapor and the CO2.
Considering that the oxidation process locks up Oxygen by combining it with the Carbon atom when burning, the CO2 would be replacing free oxygen. While Photosynthesis somewhat reverses the combination extracting some, but not all, of the Carbon and releasing some, but not all, of the Oxygen to repeat the cycle.
So, since c. AD 1900, Earth’s atmosphere has gone from, by parts per 10,000 of dry air, 7809 parts nitrogen, 2096 oxygen, 93 argon and three carbon dioxide molecules, plus small amounts of other gases, to 2095 O2 and four CO2 today.
The horror!
Average global moisture content, by contrast, is around 300 parts H2O per 10,000, but varies from about four in the cold, dry polar deserts during winter to 400 or more in the moist tropics. As all know, water is a much more potent GHG than CO2, molecule for molecule, let alone its higher mean concentration, on the order of 100 times.
[It may be clearer to readers to use the per 1,000,000 number. .mod]
No wonder I gasp for breath now when climbing mountains, compared to during the 1970s!
Couldn’t have anything to do with being 40 years older. Nah! It’s that extra molecule of nasty, evil, suffocating plant food in the air.
Green House Gases are responsible for a form of cooling no other gas type performs.
When you look at sunlight charts showing light striking atmosphere, vs light striking Earth’s surface,
the only type notches you see in that incoming light,
are all caused, by green house gases.
These gases stop some 19-22% of sunlight energy ever reaching earth; there’s a little heating and most of the light not reaching Earth, is deflected out to space.
The sun’s light is comprised of about, 40% infrared; and it’s this infrared, being blocked where you see those notches, in the sunlight arriving top of atmosphere, vs at surface.
Without the presence of Green House Gases, this cooling comprising 20% of sunlight failing to reach the planet could not occur.
Believers in AGW and Green House Gas warming have no answer to how these very gases stopping a fifth of all energy arriving, warm the planet. It’sanother of the infinite number of reasons they refuse to discuss their ”science” with real scientists.
”It’s settled science” means ”nothing I say will stand up to even casual examination.”
To Mr. Seaice below: Yes, the change to a trace gas such as CO2 is an even smaller trace. However, its effects on plants are quite observable, even on a decade-to-decade basis. Here in central Virginia, certain tree leaves are the largest I’ve seen, and yields of many food staple crops have increased substantially due to the additional carbon dioxide. So, even if we’re looking at parts per million, the difference can be great. The parts of Africa that have been greening up with the increase of CO2 are another piece of evidence of how much difference even a minute fraction of the atmosphere can make.
Invest in a good Parka and snowshoes.
“Invest in a good Parka and snowshoes”
Insulation and ammo too.
Not to mention water and food, as well as plenty of warm clothing.
Invest in a good parka and snowshoes!
LOL, we have a lot more greenhouse gases in our atmosphere ? We have 3.8 parts per 10,000 molecules now compared to 3 parts per 10,000 before. So less than 1 part per 10,000 increase is deadly ? How moronic you people are.
Moronic is a strong term. Look at your own math. If the atmosphere just went from 3 to 3.8 parts per 10,000 , then this is a 26.67% increase over the last century. It is totally possible that this level of increase could produce dramatic results. Maybe it isn’t proven, but it is possible. It certainly isn’t moronic, so take your name-calling elsewhere.
Global cooling/warming/climate change has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with global redistribution of wealth.
Amen. One more molecule per 10,000 isn’t a run-away control knob no matter how insistent Al Gore and John Kerry are that it is.
Brandon,
Watch whom you call moronic.
The main GHG is water. If the global mean for H2O be 300 parts per 10,000, then increasing CO2 by one molecule per 10,000 raises the concentration of the two major GHGs from 300 to 301.
Scary!
Oops. Typing too fast. Meant from 303 to 304, obviously.
No, still moronic. A 26% increase in the volume of what amounts to a trace gas has the effect of doing basically, well, nothing to the volume or distribution of all the gases in the entire atmosphere. But go ahead and lean on hockey stick graphs and charts where you cut the bottom 99.99999% of the number off to show how “dramatic” the increase of some minuscule factor might be.
Oh, and remind me to avoid your statistical reports – if they are all based on this type of reasoning they cannot be useful for anything. YOU didn’t get the math right, much less the statistics.
3/10,000=.0003 – 3.8/10000=.00038.
It’s only an eight one hundred thousandth percent increase. You are trying to make a fart in a hurricane look like a fart in a shoebox. You cannot isolate one number and solve any equation. This torturing of numbers to make something out of nothing is marketing – not math or science.
Oh, and I’m not a statistician just an english major who prefers to look for errors in reasoning in the construction of arguments. It’s the basis of any good thesis – you know – logic?
Well Biff, it’s time for you to turn off your computer and exit stage left, because if you think one part in 10,000 can’t have any effect, then your computer cannot possibly be working.
A silicon crystal has about 5 x 10^22 Si atoms per cc, so one part in 10,000 would be 5 x 10^18 atoms per cc and your computer chips contain impurities in specific areas that are a lot less than 5 x 10^18 atoms per cc.
If I’m not mistaken (often happens) ordinary high purity water contains something like 10^7 H+ ions per cc, and the presence of that negligibly small amount, substantially changes the properties of that water.
So do come back when your computer starts working again.
G
If it is a 26.67% increase or a .008% increase (depending on which numbers one crunches), the BIG point called into question is whether the increase will generate CAGW, or just mild warming, or nothing at all.
Brandon,
You need a better analogy than your % increase to make a valid point.
By your logic, if I have 1000 dollars and 1 penny, and I earn another penny, increasing the number of pennies by 100%, am I richer by a significant amount? Your line may work on a warmest blog but does not carry any weight here.
A large % increase in a small portion may not have any effect unless we are dealing with a dangerous substance like SO 2 which CO 2 is not.
Gabro you have it wrong. Water vapor is the opposite of a greenhouse gas. Clouds are a cooling agent bouncing sunlight back into space as opposed letting it hit and warm Earth. Lower magnetic activity by the sun allows more cosmic ray exposure on Earth and cosmic rays cause cloud formation which cools the Earth by blocking sunlight.
” … we have a lot more greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.”
Shouldn’t ‘gas’ be plural? Or are you implying that water vapor and methane are not gasses?
Since we wiped out the American Buffalo or bison or whatever we were short on CO2 so we invented autos to bring Constance back.
I for one hope this so-called “discovery” is covered up… I prefer living under a government that wants to tax the air we breathe… because that’s “Progress”….
Exactly! Perhaps somebody could find and show the “Minnesotans for global warming”! cover of the “monkeys” song
“Now I’m a believer”!Lol.
funny
Correction: The govt does NOT want to tax the air we breathe; only the air we exhale.
Give them time, they’ll get around to the air we breathe.
Per the Beatles:
” If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat
If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet”
I’ve been saving up for the day I get taxed.
Next crazy rational step: charge a tax on paying tax.
Because giving your money to the government is a luxury, and fair wealth redistribution demands a tax on all luxuries.
Don’t worry, The Australian government has that covered, we pay 39c a litre in Fuel Excise tax, upon which they charge 10% GST leading to fuel excise being taxed by 10% (3.9c per Litre).
According to the climate models the sun is not a major factor in climate. We are about to find out that this is another thing which is wrong about the climate models.
No, the climate models don’t predict what the Sun will do. They can’t. They’re models of the Earth, not the Sun.
So they don’t say that the Sun isn’t a major factor.
John said nothing about predicting what the sun will do.
His comment was in regards to the modelers claim that they can ignore the influence in the sun because it’s changes have no impact on the earth’s climate.
Your side often trembles when discussing major atmospheric dust clouds covering large areas of the planet from volcanoes or nuclear weapons. The clouds would block the sun and cause cooling. If the sun isn’t THE major factor, what is? Just because it is difficult or impossible to predict the sun’s activity does not mean it is not THE major factor.
the son has nothing to do with it.
That’s like saying in a murder the forensics experts only looked at the wounds and the ax found next to the body wasn’t a factor in their consideration.
Climate models can’t predict what the terrestrial climate will do, either.
I can, different day different temp., especially Dec. 22.
Well the “climate models (I think they call them ” global circulation models ” for some reason,) but that’s weird because nothing seems to be circulating in those models, which is why they aren’t models of any planet we are familiar with.
G
No, no, the models themselves are circulating around the globe to be used by clics worldwide.
I was looking for a paper of this, I only found a poster-abstract: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/webprogram/Paper64369.html .
Is there a link to a reviewed paper??
This is what Dr. Abdussamatov (Puklkovo observatory) has been saying for decades. The next maunder minimum will see Europe like present day Siberia. Buy your fur coats!
Everyone fire up your SUV’s and start smoking. It’ll save the planet.
I was in broadcasting for thirty+ years, running stations, also managing at network level. An accursed den of no-account, bottom feeder liars, colluders, pimps and thieves.
But I digress.
I became acquainted with long range climatologist Dr. Iben Browning in 1982. Holder of several patents, weather consultant to Paine Webber, fruit and vegetable growers’ associations around the world, ex-Sandia Lab scientist during the Cold War. The Browning newsletter went all over the world; he was incredibly accurate (more so than the U.S. Naval Observatory). He contended that there are THREE main drivers of climate. (BTW he NEVER predicted; he PROJECTED). 1.) Solar cycles – he would concur with these findings); 2). Cycles found in the earth’s radiation belts and the earth’s minute changes on its axis; and 3.) Crustal plate cycles or “tides” on the earth (very long term).
He insisted that we were headed for significant global cooling, mentioned the “Little Ice Age” and its drastic effects. He mocked the arrogant assertion that mankind was a climate driver with CO2 emissions, a compound that feeds the plants and enhances growth. He held that data was already being massaged back then to support the narrative.
He related that when Mount Pinatubo erupted, within mere days the entire globe was seeing red sunsets. Volcanic activity increases with movement of the crust; volcanoes eject monstrous plumes and widespread, lingering ash clouds reaching tens of miles in the air within minutes, circulating globally. Man is zilch. Nature corrects itself.
He was very outspoken about the coming scam amongst his “colleagues” in academia, as well as politicians and other weasels. He claimed “global warming” would be the biggest transfer of wealth and power in recorded history. He really made some VERY powerful enemies, he was essentially alone in his battle, and his end was quite sad.
Not long after our dinner, he made a “projection” (NOT a dire “prediction” of doom as the media ran away with,) about the potential for an earthquake on the New Madrid fault. The last time that fault let loose, the Mississippi River reversed its flow. His enemies and their ravenous sycophants in media distorted his memo, enabled by his establishment enemies. Hysteria was fanned relentlessly, covered by “journalists” the world over. He was roundly ridiculed and given no platform, granted no interviews, to correct the record.
I called him when I got the newswire at the TV station I was managing, knowing the press was lying. He was in tears; nobody had contacted him for his side of the issue. He had reporters crawling in the bushes under his daughter’s window, but had no say-so. Sadly, I personally knew some of the creeps pushing this from my days in TV. He died soon thereafter. A gentle, caring but bold and forceful man, destroyed by the machine that today wants to jail us deniers.
Reprehensible.
The last I heard, his daughter Evelyn Browning Barris was still publishing the Browning Newsletter. Not much remains of anything about his career, save for his public excoriation and humiliation.
Be very circumspect about challenging; know your data, and stick up for one another.
I was looking for a peer reviewed paper about this stuff. I only found a poster-abstract. Is there any link to a paper?
Read Dark Winter by John L. Casey. It pretty much comes up with the same conclusions at this study.
Yes, Troy, it does.
Frank, you can start here with a paper she published a few years ago I found compelling:
Simon J.Shepherd, SergeiI.Zharkov and Valentina V.Zharkova, “PREDICTION OF SOLAR ACTIVITY FROM SOLAR BACKGROUND MAGNETIC FIELD VARIATIONS IN CYCLES 21–23”, Astrophysics Journal, November 2014.
It’s earlier work but outlines the basics. I’ve been following the Zarkov/Zarckova’s work for a few years, I think they’re on to something, to the extent I purchased land and a home in an area about 1000 miles south of the area I was living 10 years ago.
I’m not looking forward to the world predicted by them, but I do take their work very seriously and I find it compelling. The word of today is nothing at all like the world of the Maunder Minimum and it’s my opinion our modern world, with its dependence on industrial agriculture, will not survive in any form we might recognize. I honestly had hoped I wouldn’t live to see it. If it comes to pass I suspect we will experience global starvation.
Edit:
“Zarkova/Zarckova’s” should be “Zarkov/Zarckova’s”
“it’s my opinion our modern world, with its dependence on industrial agriculture, will not survive in any form we might recognize.”
Mods: Please look into installing an “edit” button on this site?
EDIT 2: “I think they’re on to something”
I fixed your errors. Sadly, WordPress doesn’t have an edit function.
w.
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Yes I was hoping to make it to 100 in 2053 but the odds look longer now.
Thanks much Willis. It seems I can’t proofread my own mistakes. Too many years depending on editors… 🙂
Isn’t Professor Zharkova one of the scientists who discovered that solar flares produce seismic waves in the Sun’s interior?
We have reserves in potential caloric availibilty since so much grain is used for other purposes including animal feed and ethinol among other things. It all comes down to replacement costs. Further, i wonder what is being used to grow synthetic meat?
I may look into potential edible by products fro fossile fuels.
Bartleby – I worked as a technical editor, among other duties, for a staff of about 50 engineers and scientists for a number of years. No one can proof read his own writing adequately most of the time. That is why we have proof readers and editors. But even they are not infallible. That is why multiple reviews before publication is recommended.
South River: As you no doubt know already, I wasn’t joking and I am truly grateful (was “greatful” before spell-check) [for] all the assistance I’ve received over the years from editors. You really are appreciated.
[But Shirley, are you serious about the praise? .mod]
And then there are the typos…
The video shows the paper. It was published in the Astrophysical Journal on 13 October 2014.
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/795/1/46/meta
PREDICTION OF SOLAR ACTIVITY FROM SOLAR BACKGROUND MAGNETIC FIELD VARIATIONS IN CYCLES 21-23
Simon J. Shepherd1, Sergei I. Zharkov2, and Valentina V. Zharkova3
I assume Sergei Zharkov to be Valentina’s husband.
Although of course could be her brother or son.
Zharkov and Zharkova could be as common and unrelated as Smith and Smyth though
More likely her son, now that I check:
http://www2.hull.ac.uk/science/physics/staff/zharkov.aspx
Zharkov isn’t as common a name as Smith, which in Russian would be Kuznets or Kuznetsov. “Zhark-” means “hot”.
Also, in Russian, female names end in -a. The male form is without the A.
So Mrs. Zharkov’s name is Zharkova, or the daughter of a Mr. Zharkov . It’s not a simple spelling difference, as in Smith and Smythe.
Similarly, the patronymic of a boy, ie “son of”, as in Ivan Ivanovich (John, son of John), is -ovich, while of a girl is -ovna, as in Anna Ivanovna (Ann, daughter of John).
Well when I lived in St Louis MO, in the mid 1960s, if I told someone my name was ” smith “, the next question was: Is that two tees or is it dt.
Apparently back then, St. Louis had a large German population.
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Geo,
It still does, but they’ve learned to speak English now.
So you were out mostly in carnival. Lots of booze, hampers spelling.
John, look at 5:21 in the video – you’ll see the Astrophysical Journal edition, article title, date of publication and authors.
The thing that strikes me, is that this was published 2 years ago, and it’s barely being reported in the media, especially considering all the mentions of “climate change” they’ve made. And what does it say about the climate modelers who find the publishing of this article to be so offensive they want it withdrawn (and for what reasons?)? It says they’re more interested in getting government grants and covering up truths than in science or finding truth – in other words, they’re crooks in bed with crooked or power hungry politicians.
Since the last Maunder Minimum didn’t make Europe look like Siberia I dont see the next one managing the trick. Its very likely things will be colder and crop yields could fall but lets not fall into the warmist habit of hyping everything to the max.
It was much colder up north in the 1970’s and we were feeding the Soviet Union because their crops were failing due to cold. If the Thames river froze and they were able to hold festivals on it during the Maunder minimum, can’t you imagine the havoc that would wreak with the world’s crop harvests and trying to feed the world population now?
There was a lot less people to feed then. Above and below the 40 lats wont be suitable for growing in the theory is valid. Billions will die, “IF”. An important IF though if you follow through on the precautionary principle, the possible danger of an extra 2c is nothing compared to the risk of the above
Interesting market forecasts for Australia, Argentina.
Bill, one reason the Thames froze was that old London Bridge dammed the Thames so it could more easily freeze over… i.e. local conditions contributed to the freeze
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Thames-Frost-Fairs/
Griff quotes and article that says
There was a Thames freeze in 1962-3 as well. Freezing isn’t “typical” but it isn’t “little ice age” only either.
Should we toss Newton, Kepler, and Maxwell out. No one ever voted on their assertions.
Exactly .The sun in the year 2005 went from an active to inactive mode therefore do not believe any predictions based on solar activity from post Dalton – present because the sun during that period of time was in an active mode.
My solar criteria is starting to be realized and will be and at that time the primary and secondary solar effects will if past history is correct ,start to impact the climate.
It is looking quite good at this juncture as solar activity seems to be cooperating after the weak maximum of solar cycle 24.
If one goes back to the Holocene Optimum and takes into account Milankovitch Cycles, and superimposes Solar activity upon this and further superimposes Volcanic activity and ENSO one will find a strong climate correlation as tied to these items in totality.
Of course those who disagree never give much credence to the climatic history data because it goes against what they want to try to convey.
I give credence to plausible mechanistic sound theoretical equations, not your ill-defined throw everything on the wall and hope some of it sticks mechanism.
Has Bush been messing with his Sun machine again? Owl Gore needed, STAT!
http://dandebat.dk/eng-klima7.htm
More data from the past which shows this period of warmth is NOT unique.
I am going to keep harping on this to expose how misleading the AGW enthusiast when presenting their case to the public.
Five cornerstones from where I come from on the climate issue are as follows:
1. Past history shows this period in the climatic record is not unique.
2. Past history shows that each and every time solar enters a period of PROLONGED minimum solar activity the global temperatures have responded down. I have listed the criteria (in the past) which was last met in the period 2008-2010. With that said I think there is an excellent chance of this criteria being met presently and this time the duration could be much longer.
3. There is a GHG effect but I maintain it is more a result of the climate/environment rather then it being the cause of the climate.
4. If one looks at the climate just since 1950 -present(to take a recent period of time) and factors solar, volcanic activity, global cloud cover and ENSO versus resultant temperature changes one will find a very strong correlation.
5. Temperature data of late must be met with suspicion. I maintain satellite temperature data is the only valid temperature data.
Remember if global cloud coverage should increase and snow coverage/sea ice coverage should increase in response to prolonged minimum solar conditions that would accomplish the albedo to increase. Even a .5% to 1% increase would wipe out all of the recent warming.
Albebo is hard to change and at the same time it takes very little change in it to have climatic effects.
It is similar to Ice Age conditions versus Inter-Glacial conditions; hard to go from one regime to the other but at the same time the change required is very minimal. It is a balancing act which most of the time is in balance but every so often factors conspire to throw it out of balance which we know when we look at the climatic history of the earth.
CLIMATIC HISTORY – which is totally being ignored by the AGW movement has to be kept in the forefront and I am going to do that each and every time I combat their notion that this period of time in the climate is somehow unique.
I wonder what it is going to take to get the truth out about this period of time in the climate which is by no way unique?
What is going on here? This is a travesty! Somebody could at least call Al-Buffoon!! Arrest the doubters!
Considering the fact that NO so called Climate Model considers variations in Solar Output to have ANY bearing on CAGW, it will be very interesting to watch the END of the Climate Change Agenda once the TRUE variable in Climate Change – the Sun, takes effect in the coming years. We have already seen a decrease in the temperatures following the end of the current El Nino cycle which show a rapid drop-off in temperatures from the 1998 cycle, which can best be explained by the current Solar Minimum.
At a minimum, this potential new Maunder Minimum will minimize the practice of minimizing solar effects in long term climate models. That means it will receive maximum attention from profit maximizers in the maximum scare biz to marginalize it.
What an interesting response to her unimpeachable offer of cooperation. The search for truth requires….searching for the truth.
The search for particular numerical answers to questions that avoid the truth is something else. Of course they didn’t want to cooperate on a level playing field! Good grief! That sort of collegiality opens the door to conclusions that may not fit ‘the agenda’. Such conclusions would be ‘off message’. CAGW is all about ‘the message’.
Even if she had instead offered to take a junior role in approving her own research, they still wouldn’t have accepted it because they know full well from their own studies that open-ended questions about the solar-Earth link to climate bring nothing but problems for the ‘message’. Questions already raised about GCR (ozone, Prof Lu; CCN, Dr Svensmark) are problem enough and clearly point to that round thing in the sky and an important variable. Establishing a clear link between the magnetic engine(s) in the sun offers nothing positive for the ‘message’ – only a downside, followed by messy, work-intensive downside message management.
Rejecting cooperation is one thing, but the real sin is to try to interfere with publication. That is unpardonable because that action is anti-science.
Yes, but… anti- science is the new science. Grantsmanship sets the standard.
They have standards??
I’m glad that at least in solar science, colleagues are defined as questioning and pushy. Good research requires that you offer it up for duplication, replication, and robust application. Trial by fire. If she can’t take “pushy” colleagues, she should get out of the game.
Oh thank goodness. After all the global warming, it was getting a bit too hot.
I’m still waiting for anyone to explain how or why they “know” the Earth’s current temperature, is “wrong.” Please, someone tell us what is the “right” temperature of the planet Earth. Scientific proof would be a bonus.
The Earth has been much warmer, and much cooler, in the past, absent any man made CO2. I also understand the Earth is still technically coming out of an Ice Age. I also understand the Sun is major influence on Earth’s climate. Our technological advances in measuring and monitoring have enabled us to generate lots of data, but I think we’re far from understanding the complexities of the inter-relationships/inter-dependencies. My guess is the Sun’s influence far outweighs most anything mankind can do.
As it happens sun is (and will be at least for next week or so) active well above its recent average
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_1024_HMIIC.jpg
“but some climate scientists have not welcomed the research and even tried to suppress the new findings.”
Of course. Climate science is all based on a lie that man is responsible for global warming and the last thing they will do is allow the truth to be revealed.
What about the hole in the ozone layer? or the Hockey stick? or The Day After Tomorrow!!!! OH!!! the humanity!!!! ….Btw…I have a whole pallet of carbon credits for sale, cheap.
If things do get cold, they already have excuses lined up “the Atlantic did it”
I’m expecting “mankind did it”.
so… a scientist that says models are just that and we will have to see if this happens. Global warming scientists seem to thing their models are facts carved in stone only to be changed as we move past the time when the predictions didn’t happen (Al Gore). That’s right, look at the predictions of twenty years ago. COMPLETELY WRONG. Oh, that’s right we aren’t supposed to talk about that. I lived through it folks, Al won a Nobel Peace prize for prediction that haven’t even been close.
The sun is on it’s way down this activity is nothing of consequence.
Is this new research from Dr. Zharkova, et al., or just a re-posting of last summer’s article?
Looks like a rehash of last year’s. Now as then, the ‘theory’ is thoroughly debunked:
http://www.leif.org/EOS/1512-05516-Zharkova-Fail-by-Usoskin.pdf
A two-wave dynamo model was recently proposed by Zharkova et al. (2015, Zh15 henceforth), which aims at long-term predictions of solar activity for millennia ahead and backwards. Here we confront the backward predictions for the last 800 years with known variability of solar activity, using both direct sunspot observations since 1610 and reconstructions based on cosmogenic nuclide data. We show that the Zh15 model fails to reproduce the well-established features of the solar activity evolution during the last millennium. This means that the predictive part for the future is not reliable either
Simply plotting the ‘theoretical’ values against observations how how wrong they are:
http://www.leif.org/research/Zharkova-2015-Double-Dynamo-Fail.png
They e.g. have the timing wrong, e.g. saying that the Dalton Minimum was around AD 1750, while it should have been around 1815.
They do have the Dalton Minimum offset to the left, ie too early. There was an 18th century warming cycle between the two cold snaps.
The Dalton is variously delineated as from 1790 to 1830 or 1796 to 1820.
Their hindcast does however correctly show rising solar activity after the Maunder during the 18th century and a drop off toward its end.
I should add that the 18th century warming was greater in amplitude and duration than the late 20th century warming, maybe not surprising coming off the depths of the Maunder Minimum in the trough of the LIA.
The Dalton was the last blast of the LIA, although the world muddled along colder than usual (ie, trend of the past 3000 years) until the middle of the 19th century.
Regardless, the Zharkova et al. ‘prediction’ is simply plain wrong, in gross and in details.
Sporer should be two separate solar minima, one from around the 1430’s, and another from around the 1550’s.
Solar activity predicted to fall 60% in 2030s, to ‘mini ice age’ levels: Sun driven by double dynamo
July 9, 2015
…”We found magnetic wave components appearing in pairs, originating in two different layers in the Sun’s interior. They both have a frequency of approximately 11 years, although this frequency is slightly different, and they are offset in time. Over the cycle, the waves fluctuate between the northern and southern hemispheres of the Sun. Combining both waves together and comparing to real data for the current solar cycle, we found that our predictions showed an accuracy of 97%,” said Zharkova…
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150709092955.htm
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When the authors say we found, do they mean they observed these waves? Or is it just a theoretical construct?
I know that there is no forecast or hindcast for this new theory. And that the data sample was a small period but, this wave theory is still interesting.
You can say it if you want Dr. S., that what happens way out there doesn’t affect anything on the sun.
And I will reply, we don’t yet know the affect of the Interstellar magnetic pressure with its big dent in the nose, polar squashing, offset solar tail on the heliospheric bubble, have on the interior solar magnetic fields propagating outward.
Oscillating solar magnetic waves out of sync. Hemispheric changes in solar magnetic fields and hemispheric changes in sun spot production amounts.
Oscillating Interstellar magnetic waves creating pressures either in the northern heliosphere or southern heliosphere in time.
Good night catch up with ya later.
And I will reply, we don’t yet know the affect of the Interstellar magnetic pressure with its big dent in the nose,
We do know that since the solar wind is supersonic, whatever happens out there cannot propagate inwards and affect the sun [or the Earth]
Zharkova’s “Heartbeat of the Sun” paper published 29 Oct 2015 is a fascinating read…downloaded via her research page at Northumbria
A classy, cautious and non-confrontational presentation. Hats off to GWPF.
(Whether there will be a discernible climate impact, I doubt anybody is more than guessing, not because they don’t know the direct effect, but because of all the likely unknown negative feedback dampening any direct external effects.)
“Professor Valentina … discovered that the sun’s dynamo is actually made of two components – coming from different depths inside the sun.”
Well isn’t that interesting. Needless to say “this has been known” for 40 years so it it either unimportant or wrong and Valentina needs remedial education, or its “nothing new”.
In any event, it is refreshing that a creative effort is being made that models the 11 year cycle and possibly more nuanced variations in the various solar outputs. Looking at the sun as an input to terrestrial climate variation seems like an obvious avenue of research to me. Although, nobody is going to get rich by way of UN handouts for this discovery. How can you tax it?
There’s the man explaining his science so concisely.
Solar Grand Maximum sunspot count and group number data was getting in the way of anthropogenic global warming.
So what to be done?
Svalgaard: “abandon them, modify them, etc.”
Precisely !
Solar Grand Maximum sunspot count and group number data was getting in the way of anthropogenic global warming.
You have this backwards. The data was getting in the way of blaming the Sun for GW, so one must abandon that ‘explanation’. You ignore the fact that the AGW crew needs the solar ‘explanation’ to explain climate variation before SUV’s.
The DATA is the raw data that we have re-examined.
What you are peddling is that if correction of known and identified errors makes the result disagree with sacred views, the correction should not be doe. This is an example of the anti-scientific attitude you have.
“The research suggests that the next three solar cycles will see solar activity reduce significantly into the middle of the century, producing conditions similar to those last seen in the 1600s – during the Maunder Minimum.”
More like Dalton minimum in the early 1800’s (says my formula, which by an ‘incredible coincidence’ predicted exact value of the SC24max, but don’t ask me to explain how and why, details are HERE ).
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/SSN.gif
the above is an old graph fetched out from WordP cache (a nuisance), the latest including July data is HERE
C’mon Vuk. Your graph fails from 1850-1860, 1890-1900, 1920-1930 and fails miserably 1960-1980. Even a blind squirrel will find a nut occasionally.
Tom, you should be looking at the red line tracing the SSN cycles peaks envelope, while the blue line indicates source of periodicity (one we do not discuss here).
What do you expect? “sun is a messy place” says Dr. S. Actually Svalgaard’s numbers come a bit closer, SSN updated to July 2016 here.
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/SSN0716.gif
Tom, perhaps you should go back to January of 2004 and find anyone who will beat the above, else you may consider raising your hat (hopefully you got one with mosquito net attached).
Your formula is a dismal failure in the 18th century [and likely in the 21th too]:
http://www.leif.org/research/Vuk-Failure-34.png
Such is the fate of ‘predictions’ not based on valid physics.
Here is a valid prediction [from 2004]:
http://www.leif.org/research/Cycle%2024%20Smallest%20100%20years.pdf
lsvalgaard August 9, 2016 at 10:25 am
“Your formula is a dismal failure in the 18th century [and likely in the 21th too]”
Hi doc
Never fail to promptly turn up .
So what I got 3 out of 30 cycles wrong (is that 90%, when I get it down to one cycle wrong it’ll be 97%, the number of the decade!
Doc, I do the ‘sun stuff’ for free, if I was given chair at Stanford and your money, I would get those 3 cycles during 1760-1790 right too.
Mind you, you boosted 1760-1790 so that the true Grand Maximum became no more, and you and your mates short-circuited the global’s Grand warming generator, so AGW guys got race truck clear of any obstacles, how convenient for them, and just too bad for the rest of us.
For the Maunder minimum you yourself said it was cycling all right, despite records show few spots, or have you change your mind? Is there a Grand Minimum in late 1600? or has that gone too?
Still predicting SC25 greater than SC24 ?
If you come cropper, your prediction theory based on the last 3-4 cycles goes down the drain, it will not look good at all.
So what I got 3 out of 30 cycles wrong
Failure is failure [and you can’t count either. E.g. cycle 20 is also wrong].
Pseudo science has to be debunked whenever it raises its ugly head and pollutes an otherwise good blog like WUWT.
Vuk says: “Doc, I do the ‘sun stuff’ for free, if I was given chair at Stanford and your money…..”
Perhaps there is good reason why you do not have a chair at Stanford.
Tom, just so you know; vukcevic’s comments and graphs are very welcome here, and very much appreciated. Whereas your presence adds nothing. Just so you know.
Tom
If by any chance they made such capital error of judgement, they would boot me out within minutes of taking up the post.
Why ?
I would tell them that they are denigrating science as represented to the thousands of young men and women who pay good hard earned money (usually by the badly informed parents) .
here what it says:
“Finding Climate Solutions across Stanford
Human activities and resource use are undeniably altering Earth’s climate, most prominently through emissions of greenhouse gases and particulates, and through alteration of the land surface. Climate change, in turn, is affecting other Earth processes, making the critical 21st-century challenges of providing food, water, and energy to a growing human population much more difficult.”
further down they recommend:
“The highest-scoring climate paper comes from the very beginning of the 2015.
The paper describes how keeping global temperature rise to no more than 2C above pre-industrial levels requires 80% of known coal reserves, 50% of gas reserves and 30% of oil reserves to remain unburned.
Coming in second
The research suggests that the severe drought in the region since 2006 was a catalyst for the Syrian conflict and that climate change has made such droughts in the region more than twice as likely.”
and so on, to finally conclude
“The research found that human activity has pushed the Earth into critical mode. Four out of nine “planetary boundaries” have now been crossed, the researchers said, with biodiversity loss, fertiliser use, climate change and land use all now exceeding the point where the risk of sliding into a “much less hospitable” world becomes high.”
https://earth.stanford.edu/climate-solutions
You might agree with the above Stanford proclamation, however I think it is opposite to the truth, and they are selling ‘snake oil’ to unsuspecting young minds.
Tom, let’s be honest would you pay tens of thousands of $US and send your kid to what is regarded to be one of the 3 or 4 top US if not world universities?
Apart from Sour Grapes, that they are bad does not mean that you are good.
Hi bazzer
Tom in Florida is OK guy by me, it just that he and many others in here are simply overwhelmed by the Dr. S’s immense expertise and experience in the solar science field. Thanks for the comment about my graphs, but if it wasn’t for Dr S’s heckling and occasional insult going back some years now, I doubt that you would ever have heard of me and my graphs.
Huh, after all that, I think I need a break.
lsvalgaard
“Pseudo science has to be debunked whenever it raises its ugly head …….
…… that they are bad does not mean that you are good.”
Not much heroism in debunking vuk and few ‘cranks’, aim your armoury to the real ‘baddies’
Oh, no that would be too tough, so it appears to me you very happy nesting with the Stanford’s pseudo science flock.
There is no heroism in debunking anybody. Spreading pseudo-science, as you do, must be denounced by every scientist who cares about the truth.
“ must be denounced by every scientist who cares about the truth.”
Doc, that must be a joke, I’m sure.
Any evidence that you ever denounced any one in particular, of the multitude of your Stanford colleagues who are charging lot of money for promoting what has not been scientifically verified as correct and is a million of miles away from the truth:
“Finding Climate Solutions across Stanford
Human activities and resource use are undeniably altering Earth’s climate, most prominently through emissions of greenhouse gases and particulates, and in turn, is affecting other Earth processes, making the critical 21st-century challenges of providing food, water, and energy to a growing human population much more difficult.”
Recommended reading for the Stanford’s students:
“The highest-scoring climate paper comes from the very beginning of the 2015.
The paper describes how keeping global temperature rise to no more than 2C above pre-industrial levels requires 80% of known coal reserves, 50% of gas reserves and 30% of oil reserves to remain unburned.
Coming in second
The research suggests that the severe drought in the region since 2006 was a catalyst for the Syrian conflict and that climate change has made such droughts in the region more than twice as likely.”
and
“The research found that human activity has pushed the Earth into critical mode. Four out of nine “planetary boundaries” have now been crossed, the researchers said, with biodiversity loss, fertiliser use, climate change and land use all now exceeding the point where the risk of sliding into a “much less hospitable” world becomes high.”
https://earth.stanford.edu/climate-solutions
Since I have seen no evidence of any kind whatsoever of your denouncement of any of your colleagues, I assume you agree or could not care less “about the truth” as you put it.
Come on, where is the evidence?
There are occasionally but regretfully very rare honourable cases of scientists who raised their voices in the protest, some even resigned and many more were dismissed by the institutions they work for, but it takes a brave person to protest against his/her employer’s stance.
bye for now
I have seen no evidence of any kind whatsoever of your denouncement of any of your colleagues
My criticism of Zharkova’s claim [and many others] is evidence of denouncement. One an disagree with the science [and that is as it should be], but there are claims [like yours and others on this or other blogs] that are not based on science or are of the ‘not even wrong’ variety. Those must be debunked as a matter of course. The degree of denouncement is a function of how vocal the perpetrator is. Ignorance is no sin, but willful ignorance [like yours] is.
Your denouncement of Zharkova’s claim ?
That is cop-out, what a joke, Zharkova has been looking at my graph and formula for years, so she decided she has to do something about it and came up with something even worse than my qusi-science.
Come off it doc, gives us a break, go and do proper defence of science, direct your denouncements at the Stanford’s climate catastrophists, a letter to the Nature would do, or maybe you wouldn’t dare denounce the Stanford’s climate scaremongers.
My view is well-known [ http://www.leif.org/research/Climate-Change-My-View.pdf ].
One thing is to disagree, another is peddle nonsense [as you do].
As I said, just because others are bad, does not make you good.
There are enough people who disagree with CAGW, that yet another stone on the pile won’t make much difference. With you, it is another matter. It is not that your claim is particular problematic, but it is rather the anti-science stance that you peddle, that must be countered. The CAGW cult can spread partly because quacks like you help break down people’s appreciation for and understanding of what science is.
So, you don’t care much about false science they peddle in exchange for large sums of money that young people have to pay for the courses, the true quackery in anyone’s mind.
Your problem is that when one digs into data, it is as clear that good climate data correlates to solar activity until the solar and AGW cabal decided to reduce one and increase the other as after 1980 as per the graph shown below.
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/GCs0.gif
I show it as it is in the data, if you change the Solar Grand Maximum data for Group Sunspot Number, so that the Grand Maximum ain’t any more, it’s something I can’t do much about it.
Solar system is a system of mutually interacting bodies, with the sun in its centre. Sun provides the energy to the Earth, solar energy impact determines climate of the planet. The impact is not constant, it varies on numerous time scales so does the climate. Numerous efforts of so called ‘professional scientists’ negating rather than investigating link between two is regretful, but eventually reality will prevail.
I show it as it is in the data, if you change the Solar Grand Maximum data for Group Sunspot Number, so that the Grand Maximum ain’t any more, it’s something I can’t do much about it.
It is the data that compel us to revise the group and sunspot numbers. If the data then no longer supports your ideas, there are lots you can do: abandon them, modify them, etc.
There’s the man explaining his science so concisely.
Solar Grand Maximum sunspot count and group number data was getting in the way of anthropogenic global warming.
So what has to be done?
Svalgaard: “abandon them, modify them, etc.”
Precisely !
Sometime Leif, you need to take your own medicine. You have stated before that variation in insolation could not be the cause for the cold periods because the insolation change is too small to be effective without taking into account that the spectrum changes and the earth does NOT respond the same way to all wavelengths of light. You also don’t know (as I don’t) what the effects of the particle bombardment of the earth is except that we know that it charges and thickens the ionosphere, and potentially changes the reflection due to ozone produced by the electrically charged atmosphere.
Is it not possible then that particular combinations of spectrum + charged particles + magnetic changes from the sun cause a couple of degrees of variation in temperature. Personally I don’t doubt that such an effect is possible. I certainly can’t say it doesn’t happen because most of the mechanisms are completely unresearched.
It is in fact possible that Vuks characteristic is broadly correct but there are other factors leading to the few misses such as I have outlined maybe the spectral changes were different that time, or ionospheric conditions were different, or vulcanism or … On the other hand you might be right and he is a crank. Frankly we don’t know and can’t call it either way, science does not know enough about all the mechanisms acting to know. Insolation is not the only thing acting here.
I want you to open your mind to possibilities, not to keep it closed.
You beat me to it, Vuk, I was going to say the presentation was a little bit hyped by the comparison to the Maunder min. as if maybe nobody would know about the Dalton minimum. That would more accurately be the predicted activity’s closest comparison, am I correct?
Maybe the sun changed to fit your formula. No wait – that’s the other guys tactic.
You know that you can just keep adding more cosines to your formula and you can get it to match the past as accurately as you wish, cf Fourier? But nobody will be impressed.
Au contraire. There are leagues who follow the elephant’s wriggled trunk in solar wriggle conjectures. In fact, wriggle machinations are their bread and butter. If a little is good, more is better, and the crowd cheers even louder.
The sun has NO EFFECT on climate on earth. Or anywhere in the solar system, for that matter.
THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED (notice all caps for EMPHASIS).
Yup. We could put the sun on the other side of the galaxy, and nothing would change. We get all our energy from the other stars, don’tcha know. /sarc
Does this mean we can start putting special taxes on people who don’t emitt enough carbon? Makes sense. Electric car? Global cooling tax. Solar panels on your house. Global cooling tax. Hey, your lack of carbon emissions are causing non-Arctic animals to freeze to death. Why do you hate the environment?
Keep in mind that Florida is full. Please go elsewhere.
first cover the state with mosquito netting then build a wall, or is it the other way around.
My Canadian relatives are still pondering their move.
Mosquitoes are not as big a problem as the media make them out to be. You just have to be informed and intelligent about it.
As for moving to Florida, tell them to stay in the north part, it gets cold enough there to remind them of Canadian autumn.
@Tom In Florida. Sorry Tom, but there is a lot of real estate for sale in Florida. Land, homes, even a nice sized island (Deer island) off the NW coast in the Gulf and north of Cedar Key. Very remote, you would have to be off-grid. Only $1.5 million if anyone is interested. If I was rich enough, I would be tempted. Leaves me wondering how all that real estate is supposed to get sold if Florida is “full”.
If the solar physicist in the post piece is right about a coming cooling, a lot of out-of-staters are going to be interested in a lot of that real estate. Are only in-staters allowed to buy Florida real estate?
Maybe I’m wrong Tom, but I think a lot of Florida real estate agents would get quite upset if only in-staters were allowed to buy all that real estate. Florida still has a ways to go before its as densely populuated as New Jersey and the New England states.
Not that you would probably want it to be.
CD,
Just because there is real estate for sale doesn’t mean we need more people to come and buy it. No need to overcrowd those nice open spaces. We don’t need to be as densely populated as the Northeast (as a former New Englander myself). BTW, that opinion only came after I moved here and settled in. 🙂
Tom in Florida:
If it gets nice and cold, then sea level will fall and you will have more real estate to sell in Florida. Until the tides change and a hurricane comes by. And no ski season. Jeez. Who’d want that? 😀
Having just experienced summer in Orlando and Miami Beach, I’m in no hurry to move, you’ll be glad to hear, I’m sure.
Showering four times a day, thanks to 100 degrees F and 100% humidity, amid rain and lightning every afternoon, holds less appeal to me than perhaps to a more obsessively hygienic person.
Which is why I live on the central west coast about a mile from the Gulf. Nice clean air with comforting sea breezes and it rarely gets over 92F. But I understand, you really got to like this type of weather or you are doomed.
Not so bad in the winter, though, which is why you’re invaded annually by Yankees and Canadians.
This is silly. How would it be possible for the sun to have any effect at all on global warming, good or bad? If Barack Obama and John Kerry agree that global warming is the greatest threat to the Earth then we should believe them without question. Who cares if the Earth is 4.6+ billion years old and we don’t really understand anything about how it operates, or that much of the “data” used by global warmists is from a period when thermometers were hard to read and didn’t include degrees in many cases, much less tenths of a degree. Stop bring up questions like “If a one degree change in temperature over 100 years will destroy all life on Earth, why doesn’t the 100+ degree changes experienced every year from summer high to winter low have any negative effects?”. Just believe without question and leave the “science” to Obama, Kerry and other politicians. They can control weather and climate if given enough money and people (not rich people or politicians, just regular people) are willing to sacrifice.
Who cares if John Kerry and Al gore and Obama have a lower IQ than George Bush and making money off this scam.
The upside is the the stunted trees that produce the wood for awesome sounding violins and guitars.
By 2010 the Oceans will have completely covered our major cites and hurricanes will be more numerous and worse than ever. Total fraud total BS
If the authors of this study are right, hurricanes should get worse until mid-century. A colder world is generally a stormier world.
Well Obama did say that the entire planet will be under water if we don’t change our ways:
“They’re going to need electricity, they’re going to need energy, but if they duplicate the ways that we produce energy here, or have in the past, then the entire planet is under water.”
However the MSM , so use to picking even mundane statements apart, of course passed on this one because it’s one of their God like sources.
All brilliant post, very deep, insightful, full of facts and data. Allow me to boil it down to it’s essence, follow the money. If a bloated tick like Algore can make money off of this, it wasn’t long before entire governments looked at this as a cash cow and ideal way to control a populace.
This will drive the illegal immigrants (USA) and Muslim refugees (Europe) back south. The religious right will claim it was God’s will.
If this supposition is correct and the climate cools, it will be interesting to track the CO2 levels to evaluate the effect of temperature on equilibrium atmospheric CO2 concentration.
If there are dual/multiple dynamos at work, the fourier methods David Evans was pursuing might be the proper modeling technique for solar cycles.
Should we enter a MM period, cheap energy for heating will be vital for the survival of millions of poor. Or will their welfare be sacrificed to the flat earth-ers renewable/climate change godheads?
Global warming – Feds demand more taxes and more regulation. Global cooling – Feds demand more taxes and more regulation.
Simple: Plant a half billion tree to replace those cut down the past 400 years. It will absorb the excess CO2 in the atmosphere. When the cold comes, burn the trees to warm things up. If the cold does not come, we still reduce CO2 and the effects of global warming. Everyone wins.
You assume that there is any reason to reduce CO2 and that there is something wrong with the mild warming that might be caused by CO2.
“The interaction between these two magnetic waves either amplifies solar activity or damps it down.”
It would be more accurate to say that the two components of high Q processes alternatingly interfere constructively and destructively.
“We found magnetic wave components appearing in pairs, originating in two different layers in the Sun’s interior. They both have a frequency of approximately 11 years, although this frequency is slightly different, and they are offset in time.”
It’s actually two components at about 20 and 23.6 years which, when rectified for power, produce harmonics at about 10 years, 10.8 years, 11.8 years, and 131 years.
http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/n488/Bartemis/ssn2.jpg
The middle plot is the hypothetical PSD of a time varying process which, when the absolute value is taken, produces an output similar to the SSN. The periods associated with the natural frequencies of this two mode model are P1 = 20 and P2 = 23.6 years. When the data are squared, the PSD convolves with itself, producing 4 peaks with associated periods at P2*P1/(P2+P1) = 10.8 years, P2*P1/(P2-P1) = 131 years, P1/2 = 10 years, and P2/2 = 11.8 years.
Reply to Bartemis August 9, 2016 at 10:37 am
P2/2 =11.8 years is very close to sidereal period of Jupiter = 11.862 = 23.724 /2 years
P1/2 = 10 years is very close to half the synodic period of Jupiter and Saturn = 9.929 = 19.858 /2 years
(23.724 x 19.858) / (23.724) = 121.86 years
which has a multiple of 2 x 121.86 years = 243.72 years which is very close to the length of the 243 year transit cycle of Venus across the face of the Sun
The fundamental processes are at 20 and 23.6 years, though. The higher frequency harmonics are merely rectification phenomena.
You mean the Hale cycles?
two successive Hale cycles make for one half of a Gleissberg.
Well of course they’re not going to work with you. Your data doesn’t give them the results they want.
more likely because their model has been debunked.
You know Steve (ya know in the vernacular), whenever I see someone write the word “debunked” instead of quoting credible source it give me heartburn and makes me ru towards the loo.
So the next time you’re motivated to debate, would you mind quoting sources? For the sake of my lower G.I. tract? Thanks 🙂
Editor:
“it gives me heartburn”
“makes me run towards the loo”
Scrivener, DAFS
Sorry mod, I didn’t find DAFS (direct access file system) particularly enlightening. I put a smiley on it though.
Editor:
“instead of quoting credible sources”
I’m sorry Willis. I understand the limits you’re working under but I just can’t get behind them. I invented the internet. Call Al. Tell him I was there a few years before he was, but I do remember his useless speeches on the “Smart Valley” topic. [trimmed]
[trimmed] was aimed at Al, not you Willis. Sorry for any possible confusion.
[Better yet, don’t write it at all the next time. .mod]
And I replied to the wrong reply. See reply to Steve Mosher above.
An article by Usoskin and Kovalt claiming to refute Zharkovas theory can be found here https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225224431_Simulation_of_Sunspot_Activity_During_Active_Sun_and_Great_Minima_Using_Regular_Random_and_Relic_Fields/preview/0fe142780cf2f204e9019820/Preview-225224431_Simulation_of_Sunspot_Activity_During_Active_Sun_and_Great_Minima_Using_Regular_Random_and_Relic_Fields.pdf?inViewer=true&pdfJsDownload=true&disableCoverPage=true&origin=publication_detail
This is very interesting because maybe it’s that the sun is not only cooling but may also has started diming as Christ said the sun will be darkened!! Thats the reoccurring vision I’ve been having for many years now and never understood when or how something like this would show signs that it is starting to occur. Would it be suddenly or over a certain number of years time frame that cause men hearts to began to fail the as Christ also said, because of the things occurring in the Heavens?
I believe the darkening of the Sun refers to nuclear winter occurring after nuclear WWIII.
The sun is not dimming secularly. The older it gets, the brighter it gets. But it does have cycles of higher and lower magnetic and radiative activity within this long-term trend.
The solar cycles observed by astronomers have probably occurred for the past 4.5 billion years.
The Bible has nothing to do with it. Sorry.
Well, I know Jesus wanted more CO2 in the atmosphere. He said “feed my sheep” for the third time. John 21:17. Sheep need plants. Plants need CO2. Couple that with the parable of the multiplying Talents, and voila he wants more CO2. I’ll be you didn’t know he’d taken sides in the CO2 wars. He was there 2000 years before it became such a hot topic. /grin
[Big on grapevines, trees, fruit, and wheat fields, too. Never any beer, mead, or cider though. 8<) .mod]
OK. I stand corrected.
God clearly wants more CO2 in the air, and has caused humans to be fruitful and multiply in order to produce it in quantities helpful to all life on the planet.
So now the liberals can say “we fixed global warming”.
At his inauguration, Dear Leader did say this: “this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal”
Mission accomplished.
Zharkova and Abdussamatov are most likely wrong. We are not approaching a grand solar minimum. Solar cycle 25 should be similar to SC 24, and afterwards SC 26 should start increasing again, being similar to SC 23. We are approaching a situation similar to 1900-1920 when there was reduced solar activity but not grand solar minimum.
We are approaching the height of the ~1000 year Eddy solar cycle at about 2100. The chances of a grand solar minimum at this time are very small. We are living through a prolonged warm period, like the Roman Warm Period, that is likely to last about three more centuries. We are lucky.
Those that predict a Maunder type grand solar minimum will be disappointed, first in about 8 years, when SC 25 ends up similar to SC 24, and then in about 20 years, when SC 26 ends up higher.
http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a475/Knownuthing/Scafetta2c_zpsit66xrpm.png
Javier your prediction is just that a prediction.
It is actually a projection from combining our knowledge about the main solar cycles, ~2400 yr Bray cycle, ~1000 yr Eddy cycle, and 208 yr de Vries cycle, together with the evolution of solar activity for the past 400 years.
Projecting that evolution 100 more years from the present is very easy, and for such a short period it is unlikely that there will be important deviations.
Javier if it is that obvious and straight forward I would think predictions would be uniform instead of all over the place.
This is why I say let the data lead the way and go from there. I say so far the data has been favorable for a quiet sun going forward , that may change but thus far it has not.
The way most people predict the future is by extrapolating from the present and the recent past. Obviously when you come against cyclical phenomena like climate that is a guarantee for wrong predictions. For example you are extrapolating solar activity towards the future, so you are almost guaranteed to be wrong. Solar activity should hit a minimum after SC 24 and then start growing again.
The way most people predict the future is by extrapolating from the present and the recent past
The proper way [that we use] is to rely on physical understanding, theory, and modeling, and then from observations of known physical precursors calculate the run of the next cycle. Not by extrapolation of ‘cycles’.
Leif, our understanding of solar variability is so poor that we can hardly predict the amplitude of one Sxhwabe cycle in advance, and still we cannot predict its duration.
However through observation people were able to predict the cycles of nature (days, seasons, years) and develop calendars a long time before they could understand what caused them. Perhaps we are losing our observation capacity. Solar variability cycles are clearly observable in the climate proxies.
hardly predict the amplitude of one Schwabe cycle in advance
But we can. Once the polar fields stabilize some 3 to 4 years before the minimum, we can predict the next cycle with fair precision. Right now the south polar field has stabilized and in a year or so, the north polar field will follow suit and we can have a good prediction of cycle 25. We can also already see the next cycle develop. e.g. here
http://hmi.stanford.edu/hminuggets/?p=1657
Solar variability cycles are clearly observable in the climate proxies
We do not know if they are all solar variability cycles. They are climate cycles [if real], perhaps nothing more, and mostly without provenance.
Paleoclimatologists are totally convinced. They see the climate cycles, they see the solar cycles, and they match. Almost every paper I read on past climate events at a time of low solar variability shows the authors assuming a solar variability cause. This is all observation based, a huge amount of observations. We might not have a mechanism, but the evidence is there. For example:
http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a475/Knownuthing/SolarLakeLevels_zpsuhaodp6x.png
From: Magny, M. (1993). Solar influences on Holocene climatic changes illustrated by correlations between past lake-level fluctuations and the atmospheric 14 C record. Quaternary research, 40(1), 1-9.
And it is like this paper after paper. Judging by the number I’ve read (over a hundred) there’s probably thousands of papers on paleoclimatology assuming solar variability is behind a great deal of centennial to millennial climate variability. The amount of evidence is mind boggling, and essentially points to an atmospheric effect.
The cosmic ray record is heavily contaminated by effects of climate itself, e.g. http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.4989
And assuming what some effects are due to, does not make them so.
“The cosmic ray record is heavily contaminated by effects of climate itself, e.g. http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.4989“
You always say that but you only have an unpublished paper to show, and only for 10Be, when I was presenting 14C data. I suppose you know they are different isotopes with different origin, transport and deposition mechanisms. You cannot bundle them as if they were interchangeable or had the same problems.
In the end it doesn’t matter the amount of evidence when one does not want to see it. We have the same problem with the CO2 hypothesis. It does not matter the amount of evidence that it is faulty because its defenders refuse to see it.
As Max Planck famously said science advances a funeral at a time. It is possible that the current generation of top climate scientists will have to die before the proper role of solar variability on climate change can be established.
Cosmic ray proponents are always at pains to stress that 14C and 10Be show the same variation…
In the 1970s Sun-Weather-Climate connections had a serious revival [I was partly responsible for that]. The generation of scientists pushing the field back then is largely gone by now, so, you are right, science advances one funeral at a time.
oh, yes
So what is this then
http://www.leif.org/research/Comparison-GSN-14C-Modulation.png
That is the DATA
14C and 10Be show the expected degree of correlation for two isotopes that are generated by the same phenomenon, and the expected degree of variation for their completely different transportation and deposition mechanisms. Reconstructions that take all this into account, like Steinhilber et al., 2012, show very good agreement with the 400 hundred years of registered solar activity from sunspots telescope observations, and also with previous naked eye sunspot observations and aurorae records.
We can probably reconstruct solar activity for the past 9000 years a lot better than we can reconstruct temperatures. Your claim that past solar activity reconstructions cannot be trusted because of climate contamination appears a gross exaggeration and contrary to the published literature where the technique is not widely criticized as unreliable.
I see that for the next cooling period the field will be ready for another revival, then. Cooling periods appear to be correctly spaced about 65 years apart to fit two generations of scientists defending opposite views. Some no doubt change their view to stay within the dominant trend of the time.
lsvalgaard August 10, 2016 at 4:22 am
“The cosmic ray record is heavily contaminated by effects of climate itself”
a) cosmic rays DATA closely correlates revised Group Sunspot Number (says Svalgaard’s graph above)
b) the cosmic rays DATA is heavily contaminated by effects of climate itself ((says Svalgaard above)
since climate contaminates cosmic rays DATA and can’t contaminate Group Sunspot Number DATA it follows that:
Climate that modulates cosmic rays DATA it is also closely correlated to the solar activity DATA.
Dr. S you got a bit of a problem there.
Not at all: if the cosmic ray record depends on both the climate and the sun, then the two curves should be correlated, if the climate and the sun are correlated. The issue is not if there is correlation, it is if the influence is dominant or not. We may consider that the climate response can be approximated by Climate = A sun + B man + C internal variation + D noise. The issue is what A, B, C, and D are.
Much more important for your comment is that UNLESS you accept the revised Group Number, your argument is void.
You cannot have it both ways Leif,
Either 14C is a good proxy for past solar activity or it is contaminated by climate. If it is contaminated by climate it cannot match past solar activity for 400 years during which climate changed wildly as it does.
Ergo it is concluded that 14C represents a good proxy for past solar activity most of the time. You should stop singing the climate contamination song when somebody shows a 14C reconstruction of past solar activity that matches climate change.
You cannot have it both ways Leif, Either 14C is a good proxy for past solar activity or it is contaminated by climate
Of course, I can have it both ways, if we measure ‘past solar activity’ by 14C. There is general agreement that the cosmic ray record is contaminated by climate. The questions are ‘how much’ and ‘does it vary’.The fallacy is to postulate that in Climate = A sun + B man + C internal variation + D noise, all the coefficients are zero except one [reflecting your bias], i.e. [as you said] to have your mind ‘boggled’.
Dr. S, I’ll go along with that
A – solar : 50-60% by far the most dominant
B – humans: 0-5% UHI
C – internal : 25-30% geodynamics (magnetic field, volcanoes & postglacial uplift, all loosely correlating to the solar)
D – noise: 5-15% Lorenz attractor
Unfortunately, Mother Nature does not agree with you, and your ’causes’ for C are basically nonsense.
“There is general agreement that the cosmic ray record is contaminated by climate. The questions are ‘how much’ and ‘does it vary’.”
It cannot be very contaminated after the corrections, because the agreement between 14C solar activity reconstructions and sunspots based activity is very good as I have said and it has been shown.
“The fallacy is to postulate that in Climate = A sun + B man + C internal variation + D noise, all the coefficients are zero except one [reflecting your bias]”
I do not fall into that fallacy. Anthropogenic warming is significant but in my opinion it is overestimated, while solar variability has been underestimated. There is also an oceanic cycle detected in the Bond series and other proxies that could also have an external forcing. Plus to me the most important factor of all is Milankovitch forcing, that has determined that every millennia since 7000 BP has been colder than the previous one. Somehow I doubt that this millennium, of which only a few decades have past, will break that trend, which means there is some serious cooling waiting for the planet in just a few centuries.
I do not think anthropogenic warming is responsible for more than 1/3 to half of global warming since 1950. Every time the rest of the coefficients turn around global warming is stopped in its tracks no matter emissions.
My point is that A, B, C, and D likely vary with time [certainly B does], and that it is a fallacy to assume that they do not and to use ‘modern’ estimates for the distant past.
And the ‘overwhelming, mind-boggling’ evidence that temperature and GCR modulation is strongly related is perhaps not so:
http://www.leif.org/research/Solar-Activity-and-Temps.png
I remember distinctly saying “solar variability is behind a great deal of centennial to millennial climate variability. The amount of evidence is mind boggling”, not temperature. your focusing on temperatures is a strawman.
Let’s say for example Bond events.
http://www.euanmearns.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Figure-3.png
That figure (with my red markings) is from:
Bond, G., et al. (2001). Persistent solar influence on North Atlantic climate during the Holocene. Science, 294(5549), 2130-2136.
A paper cited 2218 times according to Google scholar. Really weird such a successful paper on solar variability effect on climate.
“Gerard C. Bond of the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University postulated the theory of 1470-year climate cycles in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene, mainly based on petrologic tracers of drift ice in the North Atlantic.[3][1] However, more recent work has shown has shown that these tracers provide little support for 1,500-year intervals of climate change and that the reported ~1,500 ± 500-year period was a statistical artifact.”
Perhaps. In climate “science” the more recent the paper, the less likely it is to be unbiased and accurate; but the older the paper, the less likely it is to have been manipulated and distorted through today’s peer-review and fudging (er, funding) filters.
Thank you for finding this older paper.
What is not an statistical artifact is the correspondence between increased ice rafted detrital deposition in the North Atlantic and increased 14C production, which is what we are discussing.