The scientific community and the media are focused almost exclusively by how greenhouse gas emissions affect the climate — from power plants to automobiles to your fireplace to your gas stove, and even cow farts. But what about that big ball of gas in the sky? Why does it get short shrift when it comes to the causes of climate change?
The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely will discuss this topic, asked for by many of the show’s fans, with one of the leading solar and climate experts in the world: Dr. Willie Soon. We will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the Week, including a global warming conference that got snowed in, how climate change is affecting your naps, a promise by the crazies in Just Stop Oil to cease all its childish “direct action” to save the planet, and a debunking of human-caused climate change causing cherry blossoms to bloom too early.
Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET for Episode 151 of The Climate Realism show and we will answer your questions in the chat.
Current NH snow mass is way above average…
“Why does it get short shrift when it comes to the causes of climate change?“
It can’t be taxed or regulated. It serves no political purpose for the Left. It takes away power and significance from the State. They’ll deny the Almighty, so denying the huge star at the center of our solar system shouldn’t be a surprise.
“But what about that big ball of gas in the sky? Why does it get short shrift when it comes to the causes of climate change?”
but.. but.. the sun is only 1.3 million times larger than the Earth and a third of a million times more massive….. and, it burns only 4 million tons into energy ever second- so the impact on the Earth must be trivial /s
Soon has the solar forcing of the AMO signal backwards. The AMO is colder when the solar wind is stronger, and warmer when the solar wind is weaker. A profound negative feedback, which also reduces low cloud cover in its warm phase. Every other warm phase of the AMO is during a centennial solar minimum.
Correlations of global sea surface temperatures with the solar wind speed:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364682616300360
Solar wind temperature and pressure:
Exactly
That TSI-temp graph Soon showed is a knockout—completely debunked years ago. Why is Soon clinging to a 30-year-old TSI dataset? Does he think we’re too stupid to notice the mountain of research that’s piled up since then?
Check out Chatzistergos’ work—he dives into the nitty-gritty and dismantles Soon’s argument with precision.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11207-024-02262-6
https://bsky.app/profile/damagedonegr.bsky.social/post/3lb3ysocuxc2z