Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I came across an article with a provocative headline, “Scientists Link Cosmic Radiation to Earthquakes for the First Time“. So I went to look at…
Category: Cosmic rays
Claim: 42,000 Years Ago, the Earth’s Magnetic Field Collapsed and the World Cooled
“Ship of Fools” Captain Chris Turney at UNSW claims to have identified a climate catastrophe 42,000 years ago, caused by a period of solar minima, intense cosmic ray bombardment, and…
On 99 year anniversary of huge disruptive solar storm, we are about to enter the deepest period of solar “recession” ever recorded
By Dr. Tony Phillips 99 years ago this week, people around the world woke up to some unusual headlines. “Telegraph Service Prostrated, Comet Not to Blame” — declared the Los…
Winter monsoons became stronger during geomagnetic reversal
Revealing the impact of cosmic rays on the Earth’s climate Kobe University New evidence suggests that high-energy particles from space known as galactic cosmic rays affect the Earth’s climate by…
Weak Solar Cycle: Cosmic rays increase 4th year in a row
Increased exposure for airline travelers at high altitudes. New data released by the Earth to Sky Calculus/Spaceweather.com high-altitude ballooning program show that atmospheric cosmic rays are intensifying for the 4th…
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…
Baby It’s Cold Outside – evidence of solar cycle affecting Earth’s cloud cover
Guest essay by David Archibald News comes that the light reflected back from Uranus is affected by the solar cycle. “The atmosphere around Uranus is one of the coldest in the solar…
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…
New paper: The missing link between cosmic rays, clouds, and climate change on Earth
Last week I hinted at this upcoming paper, which was embargoed until this morning. I noted then something Dr. Roy Spencer said in his book about clouds: The Great Global Warming…
The sun is blank, NASA data shows it to be dimming
As the sun gets successively more blank with each day, due to lack of sunspots, it is also dimming. According to data from NASA’s Spaceweather, so far in 2017, 96 days…
Study: finds a solar amplification mechanism by which solar activity & cosmic rays control climate
The HockeySchtick writes: A paper published today in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics finds another potential solar amplification mechanism mediated by galactic cosmic rays [GCRs] (and distinct from Svensmark’s cosmic ray…
NASA: Radiation from Space is Increasing – weak sun to blame
High altitude instrumentation balloon measurements show an increase in cosmic rays since 2015 Since the spring of 2015, NASA’s Spaceweather.com and the students of Earth to Sky Calculus have been flying balloons…
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…
CERN's CLOUD experiment results suggests industrial revolution reduced cloud cover, cosmic rays have an impact too
From CERN Our planet’s pre-industrial climate may have been cloudier than presently thought, shows CERN’s CLOUD experiment in two papers published in Nature. CERN experiment points to a cloudier pre-industrial…
Using cosmic rays to reveal Earth's thunderstorm processes
From the University of Groningen: Exploding stars help to understand thunderclouds on Earth How is lightning initiated in thunderclouds? This is difficult to answer – how do you measure electric…
Link between Cosmic Ray Flux and Global Temperature found
From the paper in PNAS:(h/t to Dr. Leif Svalgaard) Our results suggest weak to moderate coupling between CR and year-to-year changes of GT,” they write. “However, we find that the…
CERN video: Cloudy climate change – How clouds affect Earth's temperature
This is the second video in the TEDed / CERN series created for the TEDxCERN event held on 25 September 2014. Jasper Kirkby explains why scientists need to understand more…
Paper: Influence of solar cycles on climate change during the Maunder Minimum
Both observational and proxy records of climate change often show quasi periodic variations similar to solar activity cycles over a wide range of time scales. However, the detailed mechanism and…
Solar wind to lightning strike link discovered
From the Institute of Physics: High-speed solar winds increase lightning strikes on Earth Scientists have discovered new evidence to suggest that lightning on Earth is triggered not only by cosmic…
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…
Cosmic Rays and Climate – to be or not to be?
From the “science is still settling” department, the question still seems up in the air to me. On one hand we have Dr. Jasper Kirkby, Head of the CLOUD Experiment,…
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…
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