Death blow to Barycentrism: 'On the alleged coherence between the global temperature and the sun’s movement'

People send me stuff. Tonight I got an email that contained a link to a paper that takes on the wonky claims related to barycentrism and Earth’s climate, specifically as…

Request to readers: Alert us to the best climate change videos and podcasts

We are going to be adding a media section. This section will highlight the best videos and podcasts related to the climate change discussion. While I already have my own…

More Solar Cyclomania

Previous investigative forays of this solar cyclomania sort have not ended well, so Charles asked me to investigate this one.

How Not To Model The Historical Temperature

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Much has been made of the argument that natural forcings alone are not sufficient to explain the 20th Century temperature variations. Here’s the IPCC on…

Some WUWT milestones and some housekeeping

Recently, this blog passed a few milestones that I thought would be worth sharing with readers. For all of our critics and the vitriol all they throw our way, I…

The Cattle Cycle, Sunspots, Climate Changes and the Orbital Interactions of the Gas Giant Planets

[Note, I don’t necessarily agree with the conclusion this publication, as it smacks of barycentrism, which I don’t give any credence to, but it does discuss some other concepts, and…

An Inherently Stable System

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach At the end of my last post , I said that the climate seems to be an inherently stable system. The graphic below shows ~2,000…

Maunder and Dalton Sunspot Minima

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In a recent interchange over at Joanne Nova’s always interesting blog, I’d said that the slow changes in the sun have little effect on temperature.…

Cycling in Central England

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Looking at a recent article over at Tallbloke’s Talkshop, I realized I’d never done a periodogram looking for possible cycles in the entire Central England…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

The Week That Was: 2014-03-15 (March 15, 2014) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “…simulation methods suffer from a fundamental…

New paper says 'No evidence of planetary influence on solar activity'

“Barycentric” influence of the planets on the sun is just statistically insignificant, and a previous paper that claims to find a signal in isotopic records is proven to be nothing…

Congenital Cyclomania Redux

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, I wasn’t going to mention this paper, but it seems to be getting some play in the blogosphere. Our friend Nicola Scafetta is back…

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New paper in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics demonstrates that planets do not cause solar cycles

Planetary effects are too small by several orders of magnitude to be a main cause of the solar cycle. Argiris Diamantis writes in with this tip: Professor Cornelis de Jager…

Scafetta's new paper attempts to link climate cycles to planetary motion

Nicola Scafetta sent me this paper yesterday, and I read it with interest, but I have a number of reservations about it, not the least of which is that it…

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

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments, which began on this thread on January, 15th 2011, and grew on January 22nd,…

Potential Climatic Variables Page

Compiled by WUWT regular “Just The Facts” This list of Potential Climatic Variables was built with the help of a multitude of WUWT reader comments, beginning on this thread on…

The Ridiculousness Continues – Climate Complexity Compiled

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments on this thread and several others documented within, I’ve been compiling a summary of…

Shifting Sun-Earth-Moon Harmonies, Beats, & Biases

Paul L. Vaughan, M.Sc. – October 2011 This post has no introduction, per the author’s request, start with the graphs. A PDF of a more complete paper is linked at…

Riding a Pseudocycle

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Loehle and Scafetta recently posted a piece on decomposing the HadCRUT3 temperature record into a couple of component cycles plus a trend. I disagreed with…

Is the ENSO a nonlinear oscillator of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction type?

Alternative title: “Standing on the shoulders of Giant Bob” Guest post by Phil Salmon Introduction One of the themes to emerge from the climate debate here on WUWT, concerns “chaos”…

Scafetta on 60 year climate oscillations

    People send me stuff, my email is like a firehose, with several hundred messages a day, and thus this message was delayed until sent to me a second…

New Scafetta paper – his celestial model outperforms GISS

Dr. Nicola Scafetta writes: Anthony,   I believe that you may be interested in my last published work. This paper suggests that climate is characterized by oscillations that are predictable.…

A possible correlation between the Southern Oscillation Index and the Solar Ap Index

I was pointed to this graph by an email from WUWT reader Phil Ravenscroft and I’m reposting it here for discussion. While the correlation looks plausible, it seems almost too…