Holistic Climate Theory – Part 1

Climate is complicated. There are so many feedbacks affecting each other that it’s hard to sort out the muddle of cause and effect. To try to get a better handle on the problem of understanding which variations are more fundamental and important, we need to start from some simple observations and work outwards into the [...]

Vale Carl Smith

Today is the first anniversary of the sad loss of Vale Carl Smith. Carl was a great contributor to the study of solar-planetary theory and started the landscheidt.auditblogs.com blog now continued and augmented by Geoff Sharp at landscheidt.info. Carl was anxious that his work would be continued and extended by others after him and not [...]

Smile if you are a climate sceptic

There is a buzz going round the sceptical blogosphere about a paper published by NAS which carries a blacklist of sceptical scientists. One of the co-authors is one Stephen Schneider, the well known propagandist and alarmist. There was a comment in response that maybe we’d end up wearing yellow badges. Anthony Watts responded saying: “As [...]

Willie Soon brings sunshine to the debate on the solar-climate link

One of the reasons the sun has been neglected in climate studies is because the amplitude of the sunspot cycles has been diminishing since the late 1950′s while global temperature has risen since the late 1970′s. This facile dismissal of the Sun’s importance is stupid, but there it is. Now Willie Soon has produced a [...]

Imminent Grand Minimum – New paper from Duhau and de Jager

From the ‘We shouldn’t say we told you so but we told you so’ dept. Those of us interested in ‘Barycentric nonsense’ (T.M. Leif S.) have been saying for several years that the conjunction of Neptune and Uranus which has more or less coincided with the historical solar grand minima of the past indicated that [...]

Apocalypse recalculated – whatever happened to ‘Back Radiation’?

NASA has kindly provided us with a new Earth Energy Budget diagram: Which looks a lot like the old Keihl-Trenberth diagram, with snazzy colours. But, wait a minute! What happened to ‘Back Radiation from the atmosphere’?? We have long been told of the impending apocalypse due to Co2 in the atmosphere increasing due to our [...]

Venus Earth Jupiter alignment and the solar cycle

Building on the work by Desmoulins and others, NASA scientist Ching Cheh Hung produced a paper in 2007 entitled Apparent Relations Between Solar Activity and Solar Tides Caused by the Planets (NASA/TM—2007-214817) Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio July 2007) http://gltrs.grc.nasa.gov/Citations.aspx?id=330 By calculating the incidence of ‘most aligned days’ for the planets Venus, Earth and Jupiter [...]

New paper from Nicola Scafetta

Nicola Scafetta sent me a pre-print of his new paper yesterday. The full pre-print can be downloaded here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.4639. In the meantime, here is the abstract. Scafetta, N., Empirical evidence for a celestial origin of the climate oscillations and its implications. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (2010), doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2010.04.015 We investigate whether or not the [...]