#44 – Henrik Svensmark: “It is impossible for me to get funding for doing this kind of work”

Date: 11/21/2022 Link copied to clipboard Sorry, your browser does not allow copying links Author: Henrik Svensmark Topic: Climate Change Organisation: Tom Nelson Podcast Video Length: 54:06 Date: 11/21/2022 Link…

Svensmark on Venus: Mystery of the Unknown UV Absorber Solved?

Guest post by John Tillman Disulfur Dioxide, the Solar Cycle and Cosmic Rays in the Venusian Atmosphere In 1928, Yerkes Observatory astronomer and physicist Frank Ross published a journal paper,…

SVENSMARK’s Force Majeure, The Sun’s Large Role in Climate Change

GUEST: HENRIK SVENSMARK By H. Sterling Burnett By bombarding the Earth with cosmic rays and being a driving force behind cloud formations, the sun plays a much larger role on climate…

An interview with Henrik Svensmark: cosmic rays, clouds and climate

Prof Henrik Svensmark & Jacob Svensmark discuss the connection between cosmic rays, clouds and climate with the GWPF’s Benny Peiser and Jonny Bairstow from Energy Live News after his recent…

More On Svensmark and Cosmic Rays

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Last week, Anthony highlighted a study by Svensmark, Shaviv et al. in a post entitled New paper: The missing link between cosmic rays, clouds, and climate…

Svensmark publishes: Solar activity has a direct impact on Earth’s cloud cover

From Denmark Technical University Solar activity has a direct impact on Earth’s cloud cover Solar variations affect the abundance of clouds in our atmosphere, a new study lead by DTU…

Svensmark's Cosmic Theory and Cloud Cover Depictions in Little Ice Age Art.

Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball Correlation between sunspot numbers and global temperature was known for decades, but with no proven mechanism it was correctly set aside. That changed when Henrik…

More support for Svensmark's cosmic ray modulation of Earth's climate hypothesis

There is a new paper in Environmental Research Letters that give additional support to  Henrik Svensmark’s cosmic ray hypothesis of climate change on Earth. The idea is basically this: the…

Svensmark's cosmic ray theory: two steps forward, one step back

From CERN: CERN’s CLOUD experiment shines new light on climate change Geneva, 6 October 2013. In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the CLOUD experiment at CERN1 reports…

Svensmark's cosmic ray theory of clouds and global warming looks to be confirmed

Note: Between flaccid climate sensitivity, ENSO driving “the pause”, and now this, it looks like the upcoming IPCC AR5 report will be obsolete the day it is released. From a…

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

I had the opportunity to talk with John at length during the Weather Channel 30th anniversary reunion which I attended (and live blogged) this past weekend in Atlanta (thanks so…

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

Note: I’m going to leave this as a sticky “top post” for a day or so. new stories appear below. Nigel Calder asks us to republish this post for maximum…

Henrik Svensmark collapses at Copenhagen

This is tragic, and hard to watch. [NOTE: I’ve moved the video below the “read more” line, don’t go there if you don’t want to watch. I’ve put up his…

Svensmark: "global warming stopped and a cooling is beginning" – "enjoy global warming while it lasts"

UPDATED: This opinion piece from Professor Henrik Svensmark was published September 9th in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Originally the translation was from Google translation with some post translation cleanup of…

Annotated Bibliography for Climate: The Movie

By Andy May Many viewers of Climate: The Movie have asked for more information on the topics discussed. In response, I selected the following 70 key statements from the movie…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #592

“A coincidence of interests is always more powerful than a conspiracy.”

PETM Caused by Passing Star?

Could a passing rogue star have caused the PETM? Could other astrophysical phenomena been primary drivers of paleoclimate change?

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #586

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” – Archimedes

A Curious Correlation -Sunspots vs. Major Hurricane Frequency

We see maximum cloudiness at solar maximum. Just the opposite of the Svensmark hypothesis

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #571

It is found that even ·an increase by a factor of 8 in the amount of CO2 , which is highly unlikely in the next several thousand years, will produce…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #561

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” — Carl Sagan [

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #559

“I don’t think there is a climate crisis. I think the key processes are exaggerated and misunderstood by a factor of about 200.”

A Twitter Debate on Clintel’s IPCC AR6 Critique

By Andy May In May 2023, Clintel published a book (see figure 1) criticizing AR6 (IPCC, 2021), a publication that was supposed to summarize climate science research to date. We…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #558

On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. So do not take the lecture too seriously, feeling that you really have to understand…