Articles Tagged "Tim Ball"

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) position that the sun has nothing to do with global warming or climate change

A British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) story links the current weather with that of the Little Ice Age (LIA). They begin as follows; Astronomers have reported that the Sun is at its dimmest for almost a century.

It’s remarkable from the BBC because they’ve consistently pushed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) position that the sun has nothing to do with global warming or climate change.

Solar changes are responsible for most climate variations from cyclical changes in Sun/Earth relationships (the Milankovitch Effect), to changes in electromagnetic radiation (heat and light), to changes in cloud cover caused by varying cosmic radiation controlled by changing solar magnetism.

Solar activity is diminishing as those who questioned the anthropogenic warming (AGW) theory said

Plant breeding is like doing surgery with a chain saw, while genetic modification is like laser surgery.

Pascal’s Wager was an idea proposed by French Philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) that people should bet that God existed because it was more logical than betting he didn’t. If you believe in God and there isn’t one you haven’t lost anything, but if you don’t believe and there is a God then you are in a lot of trouble.

No policy on climate is better than bad policy. However, if governments feel they must take action on climate change a similar type of Climate wager is required.

Figure 1 is a plot of the changing pattern of the Solar Cycle 24 in the solar cycle.

Figure 1: The current solar cycle and expected values through 2019.

Manipulation of global temperature data to prop up claims of current global temperatures being the warmest on record due to human production of CO2 continue.

Meanwhile nature ignores the false science. Solar activity declines, global temperatures decline and both will continue to do so.

Temperature conditions similar to those of the Dalton Minimum, and if the quiescence continues, the Maunder Minimum are anticipated (above chart)

What does that imply?

Unique, Research

Some fascinating examples of conditions during the Little Ice Age (LIA) are reported in a wonderful book titled, “In Order to Live Untroubled” that evolved from her doctoral thesis, Renee Fossett provides a fascinating history of the contact between Inuit and Europeans in the Central Arctic between 1550 and 1940. Ms. Fossett lived among the Inuit and learned their language prior to working on the doctorate. A fascinating theme of the book is the change in climate, particularly the Little Ice Age (LIA) and its impact. Principle among these is the effect on food supply and the subsequent movement of people to survive.

On August 3rd and 4th a solar flare erupted from the surface of the Sun coincident with a sunspot equal in area to the Earth. Many people saw the associated increase in aurora visible in western North America as far south as Iowa. They were most visible in the auroral belt shown on the left, which is well north at this time of year.

Many prepared for other impacts and all sorts of hysterical predictions were made, including claims this was the start of increasingly severe activity leading to 2012. (Yes, the dreaded Mayan calendar year nonsense). The only thing that materialized was extensive and dazzling aurora displays.

NASA Continues Its Shameless Role As Chicken Little

Earlier in June 2010, NASA put out similar warnings about such solar storms. Dr. Richard Fisher, director of NASA’s Heliophysics Division warned Britain they faced, “…widespread power blackouts and be left without critical communication signals for long periods of time, after the earth is hit by a once-in-a-generation “space storm”. “It will disrupt communication devices such as satellites and car navigations, air travel, the banking system, our computers, everything that is electronic. It will cause major problems for the world.” “Large areas will be without electricity power and to repair that damage will be hard as that takes time.”