La Niña expected to contribute
From the Daily Star, 14 August 2016
Climate boffins believe the UK’s topsy-turvy climate is in for a chilly twist within the next few years as three major forms of climate change trigger “substantial cooling”.
Drastic changes in ocean conditions, greenhouse gases and a weakening of the sun threaten increasingly worsening winters of blistering blizzards and severe snowstorms for years to come.
This cocktail of climate threats, paired with “hasty climate policies”, could mean “rolling blackouts” in the UK over the next few years, plunging the country into long period of darkness.
These “worse case scenario” climate threats will hit the elderly hardest, leaving “some pensioners alone in the dark” on a freezing nights resigned to a “lonely death”.
An intense La Nina weather front could wreak havoc on the UK’s climate, photo Getty
It is thought these will be brought about for the most part by a massive decrease in solar activity, meaning fewer “sunspots” and solar flares to warm up earth.
Scientists recently warned the sun’s activity is at its lowest for 100 years, meaning earth is experiencing eerily similar conditions to the period when the last mini ice age hit.
This drop in sunspot activity leads to a so-called Maunder Minimum, which is believed to be responsible for the cripplingly cold winters Europe experienced three centuries ago.
The last time Britain entered a Maunder minimum period was in the 1600s, when temperatures sunk so low, London’s river Thames froze over.
Drawing on 400 years of sunspot observations, experts believe we are heading for a similar temperature “minimum”.
However, Grahame Madge, meteorologist for the Met Office, told Daily Star Online although a “grand solar minimum” is expected, it will do little to counteract global warming caused by man-made change.
Another major factor in the predicted cool down could be the switch from an usually strong El Nino to a La Nina weather front in the pacific ocean.
Meteorologist for AccuWeather Tyler Roys told Daily Star Online La Nina could contribute to the chilly mix.
He said that the onset of La Nina – which is associated with cooler temperatures – has a much more drastic effect on weather in the British Isles and could spell a climate cool down.
He said: “Looking at the similarities of 1998 to last years El Nino event, one can assume there could be such a drop off.” La Nina has more of an effect on the weather for the British Isles than El Nino does.
“A La Nina that is based over the eastern Pacific Ocean tends for favour a cooler and drier then normal weather pattern for much of western Europe.”
The Met Office said the onset of La Nina from 2017 is likely to “buck the trend” in terms of record breaking global temperature averages, predicting a cool down across the globe.
Scientists recently warned the sun’s activity is at its lowest for 100 years
Whenever we have such lows, they are followed by increased solar activity. The next solar cycle already looks to be a bit stronger than the current one.
“… a massive decrease in solar activity, meaning fewer “sunspots” and solar flares to warm up earth…”
I have never seen anything suggesting that sunspots or solar flares do anything to warm up the earth.
‘From the Daily Star’.
Like ‘From the National Enquirer’, but with pictures of poor unfortunate young ladies who struggle to afford clothes.
The ‘Mirror’ it ain’t. And the ‘Mirror’ ain’t much of a newspaper . . . .
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The pictures are to ensure the print version ‘readership’ know which way up to hold the paper.
“I have never seen anything suggesting that sunspots or solar flares do anything to warm up the earth.”
I can’t vouch for its accuracy, but here’s the first thing that came up when I did a search for “what do more sunspots mean?” Do you have anything scientific to counter it?
http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/notes/chap02/sunspots.html
Jeff, now at least you’ve seen something suggesting that sunspots warm up global temperatures.
Thanks to ever-increasing Global Warming, the young ladies do not need clothes. This is, of course, incontrovertible proof that the warming is Man Made.
I grow weary of headlines about climate predictions based on models.
I believe the causation run like this: decreases in sunspots is symptomatic of a weaker solar wind. A weaker solar wind is less able to protect the earth from high energy cosmic rays coming from deep space. As more cosmic rays pass through the atmosphere, more atmospheric molecules are split into ions. These extra ions are seed for increased cloud formation. Greater cloud formation reflects more solar radiation away from earths surface, and hence cooling. See: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/08/25/svensmark-publishes-solar-activity-has-a-direct-impact-on-earths-cloud-cover/
Real time solar activity is like a trickle charger, while the AMO is the grid-scale battery. There is no comparison in short term observations and models. So the better question is whether the last 70 years of solar activity matters, not the trickle charger.
http://www.climate4you.com/images/AMO%20GlobalAnnualIndexSince1856%20With11yearRunningAverage.gif
http://www.climate4you.com/images/NOAA%20SST-NorthAtlantic%20GlobalMonthlyTempSince1979%20With37monthRunningAverage.gif
Solar activity has reached the same level in every century [not yet the 21st, of course] since observations began 400 years ago http://www.leif.org/research/The-Waldmeier-Effect-Levi.pdf
If we looked at the stock market and the economy with century averages, we would come up with even more failed prediction models than the current crop.
The South polar field appears to be making a move back toward zero. Too early to know how far it will correct or this is just a random fluctuation. The North polar field has done little strengthening since reversal. So it looks to me like we’re at least 5-6 months away from any decent predictions for SC 25 to see where the south polar field strength tracks.
http://www.leif.org/research/WSO-Polar-Fields-since-2003.png
Further evidence that making SC25 predictions at this point is dicey is how fast SC24’s SSN and F10.7 are decaying relative to Predictions.
http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/solar-cycle-sunspot-number.gif
http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/solar-cycle-10-cm-radio-flux.gif
The South polar field appears to be making a move back toward zero. Too early to know how far it will correct or this is just a random fluctuation.
Because the sun’s axis is tilted with respect to the Earth’s orbit, the south pole cap is now becoming less visible and the magnetic field thus decreasing. This is the expected and observed behavior. Similarly, the north polar cap was less visible during the first half of 2016, resulting in a smaller observed magnetic field.
You can see the same behavior of the polar fields leading up the previous minimum. In short: the fields have now stabilized and can be used for prediction.
http://www.leif.org/research/Solar-Polar-Fields.png
Still way weaker than the last 2 or 3 cycles.
“Solar activity has reached the same level in every century”
That statement doesn’t recognize the “area under the curve” is most definitely not the “same level” in each century. By the way what is your prediction for Cycle 25 since you say it is going to be higher than 24? I don’t know if Zharkova et al 2015 implies a lower SSN for Cycles 25 and 26 compared to 24, but I’m guessing it does.
The area under the curve for the 18th century is on par with that of the 20th, within the uncertainty of the estimates, but it is not a given that the climate must have a 100-year response time, and if it did, then there would not be ‘substantial-cooling-predicted-within-the-next-few-years’.
Zharkova et al 2015 implies a lower SSN for Cycles 25 and 26 compared to 24, but I’m guessing it does
since Zharkova et al. can’t hindcast the past, their prediction of the future is irrelevant.
It is a bit premature to give a more precise number for SC25, but if I must, I would guess 10-20% higher than SC24, as the current cycle still has time to further increase the polar fields.
“the next solar cycle already looks…”, Leif? What part of it are you seeing that you can say that? Certainly no sign of it on your (sadly neglected) solar pages.
You shouldn’t neglect the pages, but instead read them carefully.
On the evolution of the polar fields: http://www.leif.org/research/Comparing-HMI-WSO-Polar-Fields.pdf
Also take a look at http://hmi.stanford.edu/hminuggets/?p=1657
and http://jsoc.stanford.edu/data/hmi/polarfield/
and http://wso.stanford.edu/gifs/Polar.gif
Judging from past cycles it is likely that the polar fields will strengthening further, although probably not by much.
Thanks Leif, that Fig 1 of your 1st Stanford cite is very interesting — signs of cycle 25. But as for neglected pages, I’m hoping you will bring your pages up to date soon — much less interesting when they are 6 months out of date, as your solar activity and active region count pages are.
The sun changes so slowly that a few months don’t make a difference, but it is nevertheless time to update them.
So what are you basing that on?
If you would care (what a concept) to read my comments on that, you would learn on what.
“…since Zharkova et al. can’t hindcast the past, their prediction of the future is irrelevant.”
We have a most excellent chance to see if you are correct in about 9 years. You are higher, she is lower. I’ll set my alert timer for 9 years from now. That’s the beauty of reality, it trumps ego every single time, although sometimes it takes some time to bubble to the top.
If she is right it will be for the wrong reason as her theory doesn’t work as shown by her being wrong on the past.
What an odd statement, because you were wrong in the past you cant be right now. Wish I was perfect, it must be great.
Yes, regional warming caused by solar cycle changes is always followed by regional cooling caused by solar cycle changes.
The foundation of science is that fundamental theoretical beliefs can and are proven incorrect by new observations.
The warming in the last 150 years has caused by solar cycle changes, not by the rise in atmospheric CO2. The rise in atmospheric CO2 was caused by increased planetary temperature and an increase in deep earth CH4 emission which is low in C13, not by anthropogenic CO2 emissions.
It is no surprise that global warming will be followed by cooling. The paleo record shows that has been 342 warming events in the last 250,000 years in the southern hemisphere with the same periodicity of the warming events in the northern hemisphere. The warming events correlate with solar cycle changes and all were followed by cooling events which also correlate with solar cycle changes.
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/davis-and-taylor-wuwt-submission.pdf
http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2012/07/09/researchers-create-mri-of-the-suns-interior-motions.html
Solar Cycle 24 is not particular peculiar, being similar to SC14 and others in the past.
The foundation of science is that fundamental theoretical beliefs can and are proven incorrect by new observations.
Often those ‘new’ observations are premature, misinterpreted, or simply overhyped. The ones you mention are good examples of that. The Sun is behaving quite normally.
The Hanasoge paper is badly worded. Here is what Hanasoge explained to me by email:
“I now realize it’s a bit of a confusing statement because it’s a slightly technical concept. The “rapidity” of solar rotation is defined in our context through the Rossby number: the ratio of convective velocity to the speed of rotation. It is largely thought that the Sun, in the context of Rossby number, is a slow rotator, i.e. that Coriolis forces play a very weak role in influencing convective motions. However our results show that the convective motions are substantially weaker than previously thought, which means the Rossby number is very low and convection therefore is strongly influenced by rotation and Coriolis forces (much more so than previously thought). In that sense, the Sun is “fast rotator”.”
He is talking about a particular form of motions [overturning of convective cells, e.g. as seen in the granulation, not about ‘plasma motions’ in general. This has nothing to do with the solar dynamo and the maintenance of solar activity.
“Whenever we have such lows, they are followed by increased solar activity. The next solar cycle already looks to be a bit stronger than the current one.”
Not according to Professor Valentina Zharkova (Northumbria University) and colleagues, …
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/08/09/solar-physicist-sees-global-cooling-ahead/
As I have pointed out repeatedly, her theory has been thoroughly debunked as it disagrees with observations of past solar cycles.
There’s something cheering (as well as sobering) in the fact that sloppy thinking and ignorance can be turned in any direction at any moment. The reporter talked to “climate boffins” and got the idea that sunspots warm up the earth!
mmm, like you guys did such a marvellous job of the prediction of the last cycles,Huh?
yes, indeed we did: http://www.leif.org/research/Cycle%2024%20Smallest%20100%20years.pdf
“Sunspot cycle 24: Smallest cycle in 100 years”
Leif, we know you did a fine job. It is the other ‘official’ predictions that we laugh at.
Why do observed values for ENSO in the graphic finish in May? I would expect to already have data for MJJ…
Click on the chart to update it
Doesn’t work; the pic is from a WUWT store. The latest ENSO prediction is here:
http://iri.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/figure4.gif
It seems it needs a https prefix
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/data/indices/sstoi.indices
Well, if July is -0.49 the July plume looks a little optimistic.
August is likely -0.7 or less. This would make the Mid May prediction plume more accurate.
@Nick: and even that mid-July chart is now out of date. The latest Australian BOM El Nino wrap up suggests even a weak La Nina is only an outside chance….
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/#tabs=Outlooks
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/#tabs=Overview
https://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/#tabs=Outlooks
Climate boffins ‘buffoons’?
Sorry, Never heard of the Brit. slang, ‘boffin’ before, assumed it was a typo.
ROLMAO!
Its a compliment.
From Wikipedia – which is pretty good for this kind of non-controversial trivia:
You have to be careful with British English, especially when you speak American English and you think you know what they are really saying.
@RACookPE1978
Interesting etymology. It is not in my Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 1976.
“It is not in my Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 1976.”
What on earth are you doing with that? You should only consult the One True Dictionary.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com
Ignore the Atlantic and the AMO decline from a “grand maximum” at your own peril.
I agree Solar is falling off but it is physically impossible to cool down to the levels of the LIA in very short period of time unless a major volcanic eruption occurs, asteroid hits or Mankind starts a nuclear war.
Every past warm period took as long to cool as it took to warm.
I am not jumping on the Dramatic Global cooling scare train, I am a realist..
Look.
https://mobile.twitter.com/NJSnowFan/status/765209505974157313
Clouds can cool the Earth very quickly. I think we will soon get a real time demonstration of this effect.
If we are lucky it will be over in 25 years. No problem.
Unless you are dependent on windmills to keep the lights on the furnace lit. I think I should put a thermoacoustic generator in my furnace to keep the fan going. Hmmm… [Thinks]
I thought that thunderstorms and tropical cyclones did the heavy lifting. Clouds increase albedo and slow warming. The updraft of warm moist air that condenses in the upper troposphere lifts energy up to the tropopause, from whence it can radiate into space.
nighttime can cool the earth by 10C in 12 hours.
http://rjh.org/~rjh/brisbane/brisbane-weather-ll.html
day night day night etc
25 15 25 15 25 etc
Is this somehow imagined?
Unfortunately, it is possible for heat to be lost from the system in very short order. For example, according to RSS data, the temperature anomaly fell from +0.9 degC to – 0.1 deg C (a change of about 1 deg C) in under a year and half between 1998 and mid 1999. See:
http://woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:1998/to:2000
The land thermometer data suggests a more mooted response but still in the order of about 0.6deg C.
It is possible for temperatures to drop very quickly but whether temperatures will drop quickly (or at all) will depend upon conditions. Given our lack of knowledge and understanding, no one can predict the future; it is a mugs game.
I guess a cooler East Pacific (c. one sixth of the Earth’s surface would have most of the atmosphere blow over it in a year or so. With water’s vastly greater heat capacity, fast cooling could be explainable? Brett
Yes, clouds can cool the land mass but it must take a decade or more to cool the oceans. That’s a lot of water to lower the heat content.
I do wonder where this discussion will go. Solar cycling is apparently hard to measure, as Dr Svalgaard will swear, but something that looks like it has apparently been going on to produce cycling faster than the Milankovich cycles.
‘Solar cycling is hard to measure’. Only when it suits Svalgaard’s agenda!
The Daily Star? Really?
+1…..lowering the intellectual tone a little with that tabloid, and I don’t mean from papers in general, I mean amongst all those publications which mix news with bobs. …
Lol……B00Bs
Indeed, how times change. And, you be hard pushed to call it msm in its print heyday! Is it like food. It’s not the restaurant, it’s the chef. Though I’ve never heard of the author of the piece before. I have heard “the ice age is coming!” before.
Whatever may happen to the real temperatures, we know that NOAA and NASA have everything under control to show that every year from now on, will be the warmest year in recorded history.
It is always useful to look back at earlier predictions and weigh them against present real measurements.
Some of you may remember this prediction by David Hathaway at NASA regarding cool temperatures by 2022.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/10may_longrange/
Since the cycle sunspot number is actually lower than Hathaways prediction, see WUWT’s link to Nasa’s solar page:
http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/solar-cycle-sunspot-number.gif
I wonder now, how David Hathaway views the Sun’s conveyor belt attenuation bottoming out spots circa 2022. Has he changed his opinion?
I am still insulating my home until further notice.
Why do you cherry pick an old, wrong prediction? Hathaway is totally on board with our polar field-based correct prediction method.
Hathaway has been as wrong as can be in his solar predictions
The best part regarding adding insulation to your home, it makes sense in either case – if it warms or if it cools! Less purchased energy to cool/heat your domicile interior.
Just sayin’….
Regards,
MCR
In real time,
here in Hamburg Germany, last night we had a fire in the fireplace, Global warming has given us rain,and inside temperatures of 12c
I’ve noticed the N.E. Atlantic seems to have negative anomalies which have been affecting Europe.
I agree with that
Neither Hathaway nor NASA mentioned or predicted cooler temperatures. That is your invention.
Oh no…
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/coolingthermosphere.html
In any event insulation will make a cold weather or hot weather cheaper to remedy.
oh no..
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/110614-sun-hibernation-solar-cycle-sunspots-space-science/
(See “Sun Oddly Quiet—Hints at Next ‘Little Ice Age?'”)
“We have some interesting hints that solar activity is associated with climate, but we don’t understand the association,” said Dean Pesnell, project scientist for NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
Also, even if there is a climate link, Pesnell doesn’t think another grand minimum is likely to trigger a cold snap.
“With what’s happening in current times—we’ve added considerable amounts of carbon dioxide and methane and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere,” said Pesnell, who wasn’t involved in the suite of new sun studies.
“I don’t think you’d see the same cooling effects today if the sun went into another Maunder Minimum-type behavior.”
oooodeeeeoooodeeeeooooohhhh
cooling the thermosphere is not the same as cooling the surface climate.
“Drastic changes in ocean conditions”?
The sea temperature will remain in the current range (-2 to +36 ° C), the salinity will remain between 3.3 to 3.7%, the pH will be between 8.0 and 8.5, the waves will be between 0 and 100 m high (including rogue waves), the currents will continue to flow, mostly in the directions in which they are currently flowing (pun intended), tides will rise and fall, and geothermal effects on temperature, composition, and flow will continue to be unaccounted for.
What will be ‘drastic’?
+1
Grahame Madge, meteorologist for the Met Office, told Daily Star Online although a “grand solar minimum” is expected, it will do little to counteract global warming caused by man-made change.
Mr Madge’s problem is that the “global warming caused by man-made change” is so much smaller than he thinks it is based on flawed climate models. We may be able to ask him to eat his hat in a year’s time.
I may not live to see the next maximum… so?
The last three maxima were 1000 years apart, so unless you plan on getting as old as Methuselah, don’t plan on seeing the next maxima.
Après moi le déluge. So to speak.
We live in an exciting age. We have the tools to observe the Universe and everything around us with incredible detail….as well as the understanding to interpret the empirical data.
Sometimes our preconceived notions cause us to jump to conclusions before all the evidence is in but thanks to technology and modern science, the evidence will continue to pour in with increasing accuracy and better interpretation(s).
Our understanding of the past gives us general ideas to use in speculating about the future. Measuring and interpreting the present, still leaves some questions unanswered…….for a while, but makes being an objective scientist fun in today’s age.
Think how boring it would be to go back just a few hundred years and be a scientist in that age……..the scientifically challenged in today’s world have access to far more authentic science than the scientific elite of a couple centuries ago!
Dunno about the solar minimum. Do know about LaNina short term, AMO and PDO longer term, and stuff like Akasofu’s Arctic ice cycles and the Curry stadium wave hypothesis. Suggests we will see global temperature stasis or slight cooling, and Summer Arctic ice recovery, until about 2030-2035.
Now follows a reduction in water vapor and temperature drop.
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/jsdisplay/plots/gif/sst_wind_anom_5day_ps32.gif
Like Joe Bastardi, I’ll probably be castigated by some on “my side” for calling it as I see it. But the newspaper story is the “global cooling” equivalant of “global warming” sloppy/biased journalism. “the Young Dryas”? Seriously?
If I was really cynical, I’d say that it was planted, to create bad publicity for skeptics. This article will get torn to shreds by our opponents. It uses ***OLD*** data and forecasts. Note that the “observed” data on the graph only goes through April. The plume forecast chart was issued in mid-May, 3 months ago. Since then, almost all forecasts have backtracked significantly.
* JAMSTEC http://www.jamstec.go.jp/frsgc/research/d1/iod/sintex_f1_forecast.html.en and select “El Nino index” from the “Parameter:” dropdown menu. The forecast has basically flat-lined at neutral. For a comparison, select “May 2016” from the “Start date:” dropdown menu, and compare. That forecast was calling for a La Nina.
* There has been a similar backtracking at Scripps. Compare their May ENSO3.4 area forecast http://meteora.ucsd.edu/~pierce/elnino/pictures_made_2016-05.html with their August forecast http://meteora.ucsd.edu/~pierce/elnino/pictures_made_2016-08.html
* The observed ENSO3.4 anomaly has flatlined the past several weeks, invalidating most of the wild mid-May forecasts in the chart in the article. Here it is, for weeks centred on Wednesday. Source http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/data/indices/wksst8110.for
We need to be more careful before latching on to any article that seems to favour our side. BTW, I’m retired, so it’s not a problem for me, but there seems to be a lot of NSFW content on the paper’s website. With friends like that…
Surface analysis – Daily.
http://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/ocean/nino34.png
Is that a cached copy of CDAS Nino 3.4 Index? Clicking on your image gives me data to August 15th image, versus July 12th on the image in your reply. Weird.
Sea level anomalies.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/ocean/weeklyenso_clim_81-10/wksl_anm.gif
Walter, see the notes at the top of https://wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/sea-ice-page/ about what WP is doing via-a-vis caching images. It’s not pretty.
I’m still astounded that they continue to assert, in one way or another, that if the source of incoming engergy (the sun) is decreased that the existing source of positive feedbacks will continue in such great force as to overwhelm the reduction in energy.
overwhelm the reduction in energy
The reduction is minuscule and would, if it even happened, reduce temperatures by less than a tenth of the degree. Hardly a ‘big chill’.
The figure of a tenth of a degree, is it based on the change of TSI?
If there are longer solar minimums in general wouldn’t they cause cooler conditions for the British isles?
And if the Sun causes El nino events, how does this ‘tenth of a degree’ hold true?
It is based on the energy we receive from the sun. Longer minima would not relate to the claim of the article:
“big-chill-substantial-cooling-predicted-within-the-next-few-years”
There is no evidence that the Sun causes el Nino events and in any case do last long enough to match your ‘longer minima’.
If +0.7 K is a threat to survival of life on Earth, then “big chill” seems fairly proportional claim for 0.1 of cooling.
The latest spike in El nino has already fallen, are you expecting temperatures not to plummet around the British isles due to this up coming solar minima? there is plenty of evidence that winter temperatures do plummet during weak solar periods and solar minima, taking the last solar minimum for example, in 2010 near the end of one of the longest recent solar minimums, the British Isles had one of it’s worst winters in decades, hundreds of thousands of people queued for hours in the cold to get fresh water as their pipes froze and burst, the largest lake in the UK partially froze over which had not been seen in over 60 years, Ireland and much of the UK had its coldest summer on record and in some cases over 60 years or 100 years was recorded, there was record snowfalls and fatalities from avalanches which was unheard of.
There is already the weakest sunspot cycle in over 100 years taken place, along with an El Nino putting extra moisture in the air and a long solar minimum an its way could see huge winter snowfalls coming up over the next few years, that’s my opinion, of course many colder winters over the British isles wont effect the global anomaly for some reason??.
And as you already know it is my opinion that the Suns poles striking the Earth’s oceans cause El nino, both on the 11 year period and higher enso spikes are produced around the 22 year period when the polar configuration changes.
Another Fact is, winters and summers have been getting colder around the British isles not warmer, snow and Ice have been killing scores of thousands of cattle in recent years as well as destroying crops, snow and Ice have been deeper and lasting longer in the mountains too.
I think it is dangerous to downplay the seriousness of colder winters coming up due to weakening solar effects (known or unknown), it could leave millions unprepared and cause a lot of needles suffering and death.
People comparing forecasts of a cooling period with the likes of “man made global warming” is disgusting, surviving freezing cold winters in the UK is incomparable and nothing like having a warm summer or a string of warm winters, there have been a rise of homeless people freezing to death on the streets since 2008, that’s not even the amount of suffering that the freezing cold can bring.
Agree that cold is bad, but there is no ‘actionable’ evidence that it will be cold.
It will be cold because it decreases the amount of water vapor in air (increasing rainfall).
bleakhouses, it’s because our sun is a near-constant-output star, fortunately for us.
They’re right. The visible light coming at us from the sun changes hardly at all. That won’t be the cause of any temperature change.
There seems to be an association between long periods of low sunspot numbers and decreased temperatures. An example would be the Maunder Minimum.
One theory is that the sunspot count is correlated with the Sun’s magnetic field, which reacts with the Earth’s magnetic field, which lets in more cosmic rays, which provides nucleation for clouds, which reduces the amount of solar radiation that reaches the planet’s surface.
Some folks are predicting a mini ice age. If that happens, it may put an end to CAGW theory. It will or won’t happen, we’ll see.
It doesn’t matter. They have a backup plan. The atmosphere is losing oxygen four times as fast as it is gaining CO2. We may have trouble breathing in as few as a couple of thousand years. We must quit burning fossil fuels. We must give up our comfortable life styles. We must erase humanity from the face of the earth. Think of all the cute little critters who will also have trouble breathing. etc. etc. etc. [/sarc]
I make no predictions, but one should not overlook ongoing changes in the Earth’s magnetic field when discussing the point you raise.
For a longish time I’ve been threatening myself to look into orbital variations more closely for patterns in planetary alignments that might perturb things enough to make a difference in energy received from the Sun. Quite a few folks who study insolation have made claims the Sun’s output doesn’t change enough to explain major climate shifts, but they clearly have happened. If a “grand solar minimum” isn’t enough to cause an ice age, what causes them? ‘d think perhaps moving the Earth a bit further away might help.
Okay then …
The sun’s radiation doesn’t change much – about 0.2%
Insolation refers to the solar radiation that actually reaches the surface of the Earth. It changes a lot.
Grand solar minimum refers to sunspots and solar flares. It could affect how much solar radiation reaches the Earth’s surface by the process I explained above.
Orbital variations have a big effect. The Earth’s orbit is not circular. It is closest to the Sun about January 3. That means the planet receives more radiation during the northern hemisphere winter. link
There are also long term orbital variations called Milankovitch cycles. They are thought to cause ice ages.
There are lots of variables that might have an effect on the climate. I recommend that everyone, who hasn’t done so, should take a gander at the WUWT Potential Climatic Variables Page. It has lots of references to the Earth’s orbit. 🙂
I suspect the Brits are no better prepared for snow events that they were when I lived there in the early 1980s. The basic approach was to wait for the snow to melt. Nothing like active snow removal existed then.
It’s not economically viable in the UK to maintain the sorts of snow clearing vehicles that places like Russia, Canada or Finland might employ. We simply don’t get big snow events often enough. In my childhood, we had no snow on the ground in NW London from New Year 1971 to December 1979, save one freak overnight storm in May 1975 (which of course melted within 12 hrs). In the 1980s there were more snowy winters, then it returned in the 1990s to fewer. We’ve had a few cold snowy ones since 2010, but last winter was one of the mildest ever.
I am embarrassed to have such a report on a prestigious site such as WUWT. It is not a newspaper, it is titillation for the masses. Sorry Anthony, I don’t know what the American equivalent rag would be, The National Enquirer perhaps? In the UK, The “Daily Star” has even less credence than “The Sun” and even the “Sunday Sport” provokes more interest (WWII German Bomber found on the Moon being a classic). Still, it’s provoked a discussion which has been interesting even if the source material has as much scientific credibility as “Plan 9 From Outer Space”
It was reported in other UK newspapers.
It is a story doing the rounds. Whether there is any merit in the point it was seeking to make, only time will tell.
Since cAGW is a PR game, any news is relevant.
Where else has it been reported, Richard? Any chance of giving a link? Thanks!
“It was reported in other UK newspapers.”
I see a report in the Express. As noted below, the source seems to be a Guest Post by John Hardy at WUWT. So when th Express starts:
the “experts” are a Mr John Hardy writing a guest post at WUWT. Echo chamber stuff.
It’s an echo chamber? you’re confusing a current event topic with the antics of paid for “man made global warming” awareness campaigns…
Winters can be more deadly for the British isles than anything global warming can cause despite the disproportionate alarm.
Hope there is no positive gain in this loop, or eventually the only thing WUWT and the Daily Star will be reporting is this article!
We Brits are unprepared for everything. That is what makes us Brits.
Yes, but you are past masters at ‘muddling through’. That’s the other half of what makes you Brits.
Polar (SH) vortex at an altitude of about 27 km.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/10hPa/orthographic=-213.37,-31.90,600
Temperature at a height of 3.5 km.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/700hPa/overlay=temp/orthographic=-213.37,-31.90,600
Distribution of ozone at an altitude of 27 km.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat_a_f/gif_files/gfs_t10_sh_f00.png
That link had a lot of swirly colors in it Ren. On a side note, I saw a wind speed of 520 km/h at 10 hPa.
Compared to many, may be most, countries UK barely has any weather at all. It is never really hot (>100F), really cold (100MPH), no tornadoes, no tropical storms, but one inch of snow can bring London to a halt.
That and polling
Looks like this post completes a circle. The Daily Star doesn’t give a source or name these “climate boffins”, except in an odd way. It mentions “John Hardy” twice, without saying who he is; the second mention says:
‘John Hardy said it would be “extremely unfortunate” if the UK were to be hit by a Younger Dryas magnitude event.’
Now on July 28th, WUWT published a Guest Opinion by John Hardy, also giving no details of who he is. And sure enough, the quotes like “hasty climate policies” and “some pensioners alone in the dark” come straight from this article. It looks very like the “climate boffins” are Mr Hardy writing on WUWT.
I don’t trust any weather- or climate-related predictions beyond a week. Even at 100 hours they become unreliable, or let’s say less reliable than “the weather tomorrow will be just like today.”
However, Grahame Madge, meteorologist for the Met Office, told Daily Star Online although a “grand solar minimum” is expected, it will do little to counteract global warming caused by man-made change.
You have to say stuff like this to keep your job, or in other cases get more grant money.
However, Grahame Madge, meteorologist for the Met Office, told Daily Star Online although a “grand solar minimum” is expected, it will do little to counteract global warming caused by man-made change
This statement is garbage.
True, no grand solar minimum is expected.
The Met is garbage too. They haven’t a bloody clue about anything.
Grahame Madge is in fact a press officer for the Met Office not a meteorologist so it’s definitely a dubious statement.
This is nothing but a trashy, strawman-filled hit piece, whose sole intent is to mischaracterize, and mock skeptic arguments.
FIRST SENTENCE:
“Climate boffins believe the UK’s topsy-turvy climate is in for a chilly twist within the next few years as three major forms of climate change trigger “substantial cooling”.”
climate boffins = King’s (Queen’s) english for climate scientists
climate buffoons = American english for most climate scientists !
If there is one things climate scientists should have learned in the past 40 years, and I often wonder if they have learned anything, it is that predictions of the future climate are no more accurate than flipping a coin..
In the most recent period, between the 1998 and 2105 El Nino temperature peaks, virtually every climate prediction was wrong — the solar cooling theory, circa 2005, was wrong, and the CO2 warming theory, circa mid-1970s, was wrong = the predictions were almost 100% wrong — equivalent to a coin flip where the coin lands on its side !
So we have a subset of scientists who call themselves “climate scientists”, and in the early 2000s I don’t recall anyone predicting an average temperature plateau for the next decade !
To be wrong 50% of the time you could flip a coin.
To be wrong 100% of the time, you have to get a climate science PhD !
People who make climate predictions are like children seeking attention.
Since the causes of climate change are not well understood, there is no accurate climate physics model that could have any hope of leading to an accurate prediction.
Even if there was a perfect climate physics model, predictions of the future climate may be impossible if climate changes are non-cyclical, with no leading indicators.
Climate blog for non-scientists
http://www.elOnionBloggle.blogspot.com
‘So we have a subset of scientists who call themselves “climate scientists”’
There is no evidence that this article is based on anything from climate scientists at all. None are quoted.
So a skeptic site had the temerity to publish a clump of model outputs that predict cooling.
No one else seems to want to do this.
The scientist in me asks ‘Are these ‘projections’ as good as any other in the past that predict warming?’
The problem for this onlooker is that these results are as good as any other on the model front, not fit for purpose.
As those informed in Australia watch the debate, natural variation with an unknown sign in at least
short time scales is dominating the longer term climate change.
Any bet that we are warming on century scales is at best a hypothesis.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/navigating-oceans-of-data-variability-to-forecast-climate-change/news-story/149aee8d73a118ebb4210f97d31175f2
‘Scientists can track heat the moving in and out of the ocean, but they are still not so good at predicting when that will happen.
The Australian
12:00AM August 13, 2016
Graham Lloyd
Environment Editor
Sydney
After almost two decades of dispute over its existence, the pause in the rise of global surface temperatures that began in 1998 finally has worked its way to the forefront of climate change research.
The consensus position now is that the slowdown is real and that much more needs to be known about the natural forces causing it.
These cycles include the one responsible for the fact the widely claimed Antarctic Peninsula hot spot has been cooling, not warming, since the turn of the century, supposedly unrelated to the pause.’
“No one else seems to want to do this.”
Rubbish! The only results shown are the ENSO predictions. The graph is taken directly from IRI at Columbia University. They are published every month, and widely disseminated.
So a skeptic site had the temerity to publish a clump of model outputs that predict cooling.
No one else seems to want to do this.
The scientist in me asks ‘Are these ‘projections’ as good as any other in the past that predict warming?’
The problem for this onlooker is that these results are as good as any other on the model front, not fit for purpose.
As those informed in Australia watch the debate, natural variation with an unknown sign in at least
short time scales is dominating the longer term climate change.
Any bet that we are warming on century scales is at best a hypothesis.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/navigating-oceans-of-data-variability-to-forecast-climate-change/news-story/149aee8d73a118ebb4210f97d31175f2
‘Scientists can track heat the moving in and out of the ocean, but they are still not so good at predicting when that will happen.
The Australian
12:00AM August 13, 2016
Graham Lloyd
Environment Editor
Sydney
After almost two decades of dispute over its existence, the pause in the rise of global surface temperatures that began in 1998 finally has worked its way to the forefront of climate change research.
The consensus position now is that the slowdown is real and that much more needs to be known about the natural forces causing it.
These cycles include the one responsible for the fact the widely claimed Antarctic Peninsula hot spot has been cooling, not warming, since the turn of the century, supposedly unrelated to the pause.’
My point is not clear.
‘No one else seems to want to do this’
My point about no one else is that tonight when I switch SBS or ABC the warming narrative will be boosted.
The ‘no one’ refers to the MSM.
A lot of climate scientist are interested in ENSO predictions.
They affect a big slab of the globe.
As an Australian climate scientist you must be aware of BOM predictions eg
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/
So its not an anomaly to discuss such predictions.
Even here.
The problem for us Aussies is to actually predict climate on the continent of Australia in a validated way.
No more half shod declarations of dams not filling etc., which are an embarrassment to us all.
Particularly as they continue to fail to materialise.
http://www.waternsw.com.au/supply/dam-levels/greater-sydneys-dam-levels
The federal government’s decision to finance short term models is a step in the right direction, even if unsuccessful.
It focuses us on the problem of determining the actual’ forcings’ their sign and magnitude, rather than assuming its all CO2.
It remains to be seen if the Chinese data hackers will end up knowing more about the models, their success or failures, than we do.
Judging by by the Chinese investment guidelines, they don’t have any problem with buying extensive pastoral properties in Oz, despite the dire prognosis of climate given by some.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/treasurers-decision-to-block-sale-of-kidman-cattle-empire-to-chinese-buyer-is-xenophobic-jay-weatherill-says/news-story/d4e6fcace682d65a283bd7c30f08af43
Even if it may be blocked.
Perhaps ,with our data, their climate models work better than ours.
My post was a general statement about anyone making climate predictions.
I stated there is a subset of scientists who are climate modelers.
That is a fact.
In the same sentence I also stated:
“… in the early 2000s I don’t recall anyone predicting an average temperature plateau
for the next decade !”
“Anyone” referred to climate modelers.
Do you know of any climate modelers who predicted a flat average temperature trend for a decade or more in the early 2000s?
My point, and I did have one, is that it seemed obvious the future climate had to either get warmer, or cooler … and then it stayed the same for a long time, and fooled almost everyone!
https://iceagenow.info/video-headed-ice-age-scientist/
PROFESSOR ZHARKOVA has no agenda which makes what she says meaningful.
Further she has a good chance of being correct.
As far as the climate of the earth this period of time is in no way unique.
The climate in the big picture is controlled by Milankovitch Cycles, Land Ocean arrangements, with Solar Activity and the Geo Magnetic Field Strength of the earth superimposed upon this.
These factors then exert influences on the terrestrial items on the earth that determine the climate.
Terrestrial Items
Atmospheric Circulation
Sea Surface Temperatures
Global Cloud Coverage
Global Snow Coverage
Global Sea Ice Coverage
Enso
Volcanic Activity
All of this gives an x climate over x time. The historical climatic record supports this.
That is WHAT likely makes the climate change, NOT the scam they promote which is AGW.
The historical climatic record showing this period of time in the climate is in no way unique while changes in CO2 concentrations having no correlation in leading to resultant climate changes.
Now how the cooling evolves will have to be monitored. Of course going from an El Nino condition to an La Nina condition is going to cause an initial cooling.
For clues that if solar is involved the depth of the cooling will have to be monitored and if the cooling is accompanied by the terrestrial items I have mentioned above.
Each one of those terrestrial items having been shown to be linked to Milankovitch Cycles Land Ocean Arrangements in the big slow moving picture while solar and geo magnetic variability being factors that can change these terrestrial items on a much smaller time scale.
The solar parameters needed are
Solar Wind sub 350 km/sec.
AP index 5 or lower
EUV LIGHT 100 units or less
COSMIC RAY COUNTS – 6500 or greater
SOLAR IRRADIANCE – off by .15% or greater.
All very attainable going forward and being compounded by a weakening geo magnetic which if attained with sufficient duration of time will translate into bringing the terrestrial items that control our climate to values which will cause the climate to cool gradually if not in a sharp drop off if certain thresholds should be meant.
PROFESSOR ZHARKOVA has no agenda which makes what she says meaningful.
Further she has a good chance of being correct.
No,, since she cannot hindcast the past, prediction the future is in even worse shape.
http://www.leif.org/EOS/1512-05516-Zharkova-Fail-by-Usoskin.pdf
“As we show here, Zh15 work fails in reconstruction of the past solar activity and accordingly is not trustworthy in predictions.”
Well, obviously, nobody could be as expert as you are, Lief. Who is this woman anyway? She’s just one of the scientists who discovered that solar flares produce seismic waves in the Sun’s interior! What have you discovered?? Nothing, IMO.
Your ignorance is profound…
ENSO models suck big time.
Looking at March model projections, the plume was everywhere from strong La Niña to a return to El Niño conditions. With so many models, why don’t they just take out the ones that perform worse?
I decided to do that and selected the 5 models that got it right in the March projection and made a projection to December with only those. They predict neutral conditions at -0.44°C.
The problem is that only 2 months later Niño 3.4 is already at -0.44, so the “best performers” predict flat Niño 3.4 temperatures for the next 4 months and no or marginal La Niña.
http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a475/Knownuthing/ENSO%20prediction_zpspohk8nrx.png
Now I understand why they don’t get rid of worst performers, they can be best performers in the following months. But predicting a very wide plume of results somehow doesn’t come as predicting anything.
Now the nice thing is they all get paid regardless of how wrong they get it.
Javier I am with you on everything . My only contention is the data thus far looks favorable for a chance of quiet solar conditions going forward.
Maybe ? But your data is quite good.
If we are at a 100-year low, the trend will be expected to be up, as it was in previous 100-year lows.
and the solar /volcanic connection. Those areas we differ on Javier.
Salvatore, I may be as mistaken as anybody, but I always try to stick to the evidence no matter where it leads. Nobody knows how the next two decades are going to be climatically and whoever claims to know is either lying or deceiving himself. I agree with Dr. Leif Svalgaard in that there is nothing wrong or unusual with solar activity, and that centennial minima happen every century (surprise) while solar grand minima and very cold events don’t. I also agree with him that there is no indication that we might have significant cooling in the next two decades, which obviously doesn’t mean that we won’t have it. I just think it is improbable given 400 years of global warming. Even if we are reaching the end of global warming as one day it will happen, it is a lot more probable that we will start cooling similarly to how we warmed, following a multidecadal trend downward instead of just dropping half a degree in one generation. Only a very big volcanic eruption or a meteorite can do that and so far we cannot predict those either.
I just don’t understand the passion of people for being scared silly with warming or cooling. Must come from watching too many scary movies when young.
I agree with you in some things and disagree in others, same as with Leif. I have no problem with that and see it as perfectly natural. Science advances from disagreements. If we all agreed all the time we would know a lot less.
For example, look at the AMO:
http://www.climate4you.com/images/AMO%20GlobalAnnualIndexSince1856%20With11yearRunningAverage.gif
Does it look like it is going to come down in the next two decades? It could perfectly well stay up there a couple more decades like it did from 1940 to 1960, and that would make significant cooling very hard to come. Or it could start to go down in a few years and then we might get some cooling. It is very unlike that it will start going up from where it is, so I am not projecting an acceleration of warming.
This graph includes 2015, but no visible effect from El Niño yet. 2016 should see a significant spike up like in 1998 that should be interpreted within context.
What 100 year low ? Who is that in response to?
Solar activity, in case you haven’t noticed…
100 years is not a good indicator especially due to the fact the sun was in a very active mode the past 100 years. Very bad indicator.
The sun has been equally active in other centuries…
A la Nina is unlikely, more probable are neutral conditions. I would not forecast British weather from conditions in the Pacific, the connection is tenuous.
Talking about probabilities in ENSO is science fiction. Models are updated and zeroed to conditions every month and they are completely unreliable in just 4 months.
We are not sure as to how strong La Nina may be ,how weak solar activity may, how weak the geo magnetic field may be going forward, thus how much global cooling will result.
Indications are we are heading for cooling.
There are no such indications.
Leif says:
“Agree that cold is bad, but there is no ‘actionable’ evidence that it will be cold.”
Whether cold or hot, just what actions could be taken to change that, unless you speak of preparations such as stockpiling or increasing home insulation, etc.? Certainly there are no actions to be taken to change what is coming in terms of climate or weather?
Some people say “burn more fossil fuel” 🙂
Yes there is especially since post 2005. Solar activity being much more active in the years leading up to 2005 in contrast to years following year 2005, while the geo magnetic field has been in a steady decline combined with the N. magnetic pole changing in location at a very rapid clip.
In addition the solar data has shown nothing but weakness post 2005.
Salvatore, this is simply nonsense. Before 2005 we had a solar cycle maximum, after that we had a solar Cycle minimum. The geomagnetic field has changed 10% the last 150 years, and has no effect on the climate anyway.
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression
I see weakness post 2005 in contrast to earlier years.
You see simply that solar min is weaker than solar max. No surprise.
Leif the indications could not be more obvious that we are heading for cooling.
Temperatures are at all time high…
Leif says:
“Some people say “burn more fossil fuel” :-)”
A fools errand, just like burning less fossil fuels.
Svalgaard says ” temperatures are at all time high”
Surely this is not true over the Holocene?
Of course not. And also not over the 4.5 billion years of the Earth’s past.
So, obviously I must have meant for the modern temperature record since, say, 1850.
The Holocene data is enough to establish a reasonable timespan to gauge the movement of world temps. The Holocene record shows many periods that are warmer than today. How can this happen?
I would suggest the length and depth of solar grand minima are the main drivers of temperature fluctuation across the Holocene. That being so we should expect a small decrease in temperatures over the next decade at least.
Leif:
you write:
“Of course not. And also not over the 4.5 billion years of the Earth’s past.
So, obviously I must have meant for the modern temperature record since, say, 1850.
But that date is conveniently, right at the end of the LIA….why not use say the Minoan Warm Period as your reference?
or the Roman Warm Period..
of the MWP?
it would appear that 1850 is very likely cooler than the norm for the last few thousand years, no?
just putting it out there.
Because to say that there was cooling after the warming peaks you mention has little immediate relevance for the current period. It is clear that eventually the modern warm period will be followed by cooling. There is just no evidence that that cooling has already started or will begin tomorrow.
Ok Dr Svalgaard.
I still think that this comment:
“Temperatures are at all time high…” more readily lends itself to misinterpretation than say:
“Temperatures have been increasing since the end of the LIA”, no?
I must add that you are quite patient, and for those who wish to learn, a great source of information.
No matter what one says, it can [and will ] always be misinterpreted.
One could perhaps say: “since the last time the temperatures were low”. That even removes the whining about the reality of the LIA and when it stopped. I don’t think my comment really confused anybody. It is quite clear that the intention was to point out that there is no evidence for a ‘big chill’ having begun.
Dear Dr Svalgaard:
“Temperatures are at an all time high” isnt really anything at all like what you’ve just backed into writing.
I expected more precise use of language from you, thats all.
To go from “all time high”, to the last 170 or so years is quite a metamorphosis, isnt it?
Unless of course you perspective goes back only to 1850, which from perusing your reconstructions of sunspots, appears not to be the case.
Youre confident about opining about levels of solar activity long before 1850, why does that date stand as the beginning of “all time”, other than it being a relatively cool recent period of time on earth?
It is interesting-the way you phrased your assertion, thats all.
All time high for the period where we have reliable temperature measurements. That should be obvious. I don’t think anybody will get confused over this. Were you confused?
Svalgaard says ” It is clear that eventually the modern warm period will be followed by cooling. ”
Excluding Milankovitch forcing, what will cause this cooling?
The climate system has in the past showed a strong degree of variation up and down. There is no good reason to believe that the future will much different.
Such a poor response. Either you have no clue on the drivers of climate change across the Holocene or refuse to comment in fear of damaging your current position of “It’s not the Sun stupid” ?
Your proper response would be to give evidence of the ‘big chill’ in the next few years.
I have already given that response, but you continue to duck and weave?
What causes the temperature modulations across the Holocene?
And how does your ‘evidence’ justify a big chill in the next few years?
I think, George IV, that you could be indulging in an ad ignorantium argument, that since no one knows wahat causes temperature changes faster than the Milankovivich cycles, the cause must be solar variations. What Lief Svalgaard seems to be stating is that he cannot find any good evidence of sufficient solar cycles.
the cause must be solar variations
And that just pushes the problem to the Sun: what causes the solar variations and what solar evidence do we have of any such putative variations?
It seems you are not up to the task. This may be your ultimate downfall. If you cannot explain the global temperature fluctuations across the Holocene then you have no place in the current debate. My position is clear, the Holocene variations are due to solar influence, the length and depth of solar grand minima being the driver of that change.
My position is clear
It would seem that ‘your position’ is the driver, rather than any actual solar evidence…
The major warming periods are associated with time periods of weak or no solar grand minima. This is beyond question. What is your position on why the Holecene temperature record varies so much?
This is beyond question
In a skeptical position, nothing is beyond question.
Here are Greenland snow temperatures the last 400 years compared with solar activity [derived from 10Be]:
http://www.leif.org/research/Greenland-Snow-Temp-4000-yrs.png
last 400 years
last 4000 years.
Wow..such cherry picking. Show us deep grand minima during the MWP, and the Roman and Minoan warming periods. And still you duck the question, it would seem you have no position on what drives temperature fluctuations across the Holocene?
If you can’t answer this question it would seem that you have no stake in this debate?
I just did [last 4000 years – but you evidently didn’t even look at the Figure]. Here is another example:
http://www.leif.org/research/Solar-Activity-and-Temps-NOT.png
No, you are showing one example of where the the solar proxy record doesn’t line up with the temperature record. The isotope solar record can be influenced by other sources but you have not shown the major warming periods associated with solar grand minima of any strength. You still have not answered my question on what causes the Holocene temperature fluctuations, so we must assume you have no clue?
the major warming periods associated with solar grand minima of any strength.
I specifically outlined them with red boxes. Perhaps you didn’t even look.
causes the Holocene temperature fluctuations, so we must assume you have no clue?>/i>
I think the honest answer [not based on any biased ‘position’] is that we don’t really know. But any complicated system can have [and has] fluctuations [‘natural variability’].
Pretending that you know is not valid science.
Your example is before the MWP, so a big fail.
But thanks for finally admitting you don’t know the answer to the question. But perhaps if not sure on the reason for the temperature fluctuation across the Holocene you could be more open to some of the possibilities. It’s not all about TSI.
Your example is before the MWP, so a big fail.
For your information, most of the Holocene was before the MWP. Here I show the records again. Study them carefully:
The last one happened during the MWP.
If, as you claim, warming is always caused by a grand minimum, it should hold at all times, even before the MWP.
you don’t know the answer to the question.
Nobody knows the honest answer to the question. If they say they do, there are lying or ignorant.
you could be more open to some of the possibilities. It’s not all about TSI.
What other possibilities. All solar data vary like TSI as the variations are due to the same underlying cause.
If you have evidence of ‘other possibilities’ show them.
Otherwise you can freely admit that you don’t.
Solar activity aside, the La Nina impact on sensible weather is now apparent along the US West Coast. I’m prepping for a cold, relatively moisture starved, winter (while hoping against all hope that we get one of those odd “wet La Nina” events where NorCal falls in more with the Pac NW than the rest of the SW US).
Whatever cooling comes in the next few years will be blamed on global warming (i.e. John Holdren doing freelance work) or Brexit, maybe both.
Anthony, I have been reading and commenting on your blog for a fair few years. While I find it interesting, and do not always agree, I do find your independent perspective thought provoking. But please, please do me and others a favour. Check out your source material when using the UK press. Many of our Daily papers are about as a reliable as children’s comics. They are not like the news media in the US. Some are so biased as to be completely untrustworthy. As soon as anyone in the UK sees your source was the Daily Star they will either think it is April fools day, or make less charitable comments. You have lots of followers in UK, just check out the reliability of these rags before quoting them. Cheers.
Salvatore, this is simply nonsense. Before 2005 we had a solar cycle maximum, after that we had a solar Cycle minimum. The geomagnetic field has changed 10% the last 150 years, and has no effect on the climate anyway
Leif says which I not surprisingly disagree with.
http://creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/39/39_1/GeoMag.htm
and the magnetic field strength compounds solar effects which of course you say no to. Which is why it follows you would say the magnetic field of earth has no climatic impacts.
Wrong on all counts n my opinion. We shall see because one of us is going to have to be correct since we disagree on everything just about 100%.
You can be right for the wrong reasons…
lsvalgaard Says “since Zharkova et al. can’t hindcast the past, their prediction of the future is irrelevant.”
I guess that applies to 100% of the IPCC models as well? If that is the standard, then the IPCC is a gonner.
JAVIER – your post in responding to me can not be argued with. It does make sense.
I think we do agree on a solar /climate connection and if solar parameters become low enough that will be realized or I should say more apparent. I also think you agree that this period of time in the climate is not unique. Correct?
I think the solar prediction is much harder to get a handle on then the climate prediction. I think with the climate one can say if x and x happen you get an x result ,but the problem is being able to predict x and x .
I think only time will tell because as you said no one really knows all we can do is take educated takes on it and try to back it up with reasoning and try to make the most logical case based on the historical climatic record and data.
Yes Salvatore, we agree on that.
Climate boffins believe the UK’s topsy-turvy climate is in for a chilly twist within the next few years as three major forms of climate change trigger “substantial cooling”.
Wow can an intelligent person even hear himself say that?
Climate boffins believe the UK’s topsy-turvy climate is in for a warm twist within the next few years as three major forms of climate change trigger “substantial warming”.
Still sounds like BS no matter which way you put it:)
Cheers
Roger
http://www.rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com
“Wow can an intelligent person even hear himself say that?”
Maybe not. It’s a journalist summarising this WUWT Guest Opinion. Written by “climate boffins”? No.
Right – maybe but you have to admit that it smells like these boffins are getting ready for a climate cooling and are preparing explanations in order to try and retain the AGW myth as viable.
Dont you think?
Cheers
Roger
http://www.rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com
“you have to admit that it smells like these boffins”
No. There are no boffins. You are hearing the wisdom of John Hardy, expressed in a WUWT guest post, and recycled boffinated courtesy of Daily Star.
Richard Verney wrote:
Given our lack of knowledge and understanding, no one can predict the future; it is a mugs game.
Wrong! Everyone can predict the future. The question is: are the predictions so simplistic that the prediction must come true or are they based on evidence and theory with a reasonable or high probability of coming true?
Examples:
I predict that in Australia next January will be warmer than last July. Simplistic, and I would say will come true at better than 97% probability.
I predict that Australia’s next January average temperature will be from 0 to 0.5C cooler than the January 2015 temperature. Evidence = January temperatures in the past have fluctuated within a narrow range. Theory = End of El Ninyo, start of La Ninya. Probability of being correct? Regret to say not statistically different from 0.5.
QED.
A return to ice age conditions would be cataclysmic for the UK and north west Europe and we see those conditions in the geology just as we see evidence of past volcanic activity around dormant volcanoes. Some people see climate study as determining who has the most extreme weather ,this is bigoted because the change in climate in the climate during glaciations in the UK is very extreme. I think that when these newspapers make predictions that we are going to have a massive heat wave this week where all max. temp. record would fall as the star did last week then they should also be made to print when there claims were false or else they simply get away with this.
Waves in the stratosphere in the south and pressure anomalies.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat-trop/gif_files/time_pres_WAVE1_MEAN_JAS_SH_2016.png
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat-trop/gif_files/time_pres_HGT_ANOM_JAS_SH_2016.png
lsvalgaard August 15, 2016 at 8:16 am
Scientists recently warned the sun’s activity is at its lowest for 100 years
Whenever we have such lows, they are followed by increased solar activity. The next solar cycle already looks to be a bit stronger than the current one.
We have actually at least eight years in delay of zonal flow responsible for cycle 25 so, if solar cycle 24 is gonna by shorter and will end on beginning of next year ( is very realistic). We will have interesting situation, shorter cycle 24 that mins 2.8 years absence + 8 years delaying of zonal flow responsible for cycle 25 ,so we have in future at least 10 years minimum with no spots on solar surface. Mr Isvalgaard im correct ?
if solar cycle 24 is gonna by shorter and will end on beginning of next year ( is very realistic).
SC24 is not going to be shorter and the next minimum is still 3-4 years away. You can see that on this Figure:
http://hmi.stanford.edu/hminuggets/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Figure-1.png
Explanation here: http://hmi.stanford.edu/hminuggets/?p=1657
I agree!
Above in this thread you refer to reliable instrument records and one can reasonably infer that you mean post 1850.
Yet in this thread,you posted a temperature reconstruction, based on ice cores.
Is this, in your opinion, reliable?
If so, how would you frame todays temperatures in the historical context provided by the time series you posted?
One has to use what is available. The reliability can only be judged when the series are used in context and compared with other data. This is the essence of science.
In the Central Arctic ice extent in August increased clearly.
ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02186/plots/4km/r11_Central_Arctic_ts_4km.png