At last! Solar-Climate link to be reassessed

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/releases/2010/10-110.html GREENBELT, Md. – NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and The University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) announced the formation of a new collaborative research center dedicated to the study of the Sun’s effect on Earth’s climate. The center, called the Sun-Climate Research Center (SCRC), will be directed by Robert Cahalan, [...]

Mišo Alkalaj: Rise in co2 due to plants not coal

John ‘o’ Sullivan recently posted on Judith Curry’s site to let us know he and 23 co-authors have a book out called ‘Slaying the Sky Dragon‘ which takes on various aspects of the AGW hypothesis. In the second volume Mišo Alkalaj claims to debunk the attribution of half the rise in co2 to fossil fuel [...]

Russian thermageddon: A historical perspective

Much muttering and cries of “unprecedeted” from the alarmists about Russia’s 2010 heatwave and the resulting forest fires. From Guardian comment contributor Trofim: 1298: There was a wholesale death of animals. In the same year there was a drought, and the woods and peat bogs burnt. 1364: Halfway through summer there was a complete smoke [...]

More support for Svensmark Effect

WUWT has a story today about a new paper just published which confirms the link between Solar activity levels and cloud albedo variation: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/11/25/something-to-be-thankful-for-at-last-cosmic-rays-linked-to-rapid-mid-latitude-cloud-changes The paper is here: http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/10/10941/2010/acp-10-10941-2010.pdf This has made my day! Abstract. The effect of the Galactic Cosmic Ray (GCR) flux on Earth’s climate is highly uncertain. Using a novel sampling approach [...]

Earth’s magnetic field mimics solar activity

Well this is interesting Leif offered us a graph of ‘Dst’ which is a measurement of earth’s horizontal magnetic field – in the plane of the orbits of the solar system’s planets. From: A Continuous Long-Term Record ofMagnetic-Storm Occurrence and Intensity Jeffrey J. Love USGS Geomagnetism Program http://geomag.usgs.gov http://www.leif.org/research/AGU%20Spring%202007%20SH54B-03.pdf Measurements made near the Earth’s equator of [...]

M.A. Vukcevic: Earth’s wobble and the longest temperature record

Our Friend Vukcevic has sent me an interesting graph with no supporting information on how the curve for ‘Earth’s wobble’ is constructed from the JPL ephemeris. I love mysteries. He attaches a suitable health warning. I would like to make it clear at the outset, it does not appear that correlation is ‘effective’, since signal [...]

Climategate: first anniversary

Lest it be forgot. I thought I’d post my favourite email from the archive. For me it has it all, the hubris, the uncertainty, the plotting, the denunciation, the recipient list… Feel free to post your own favourites in comments, here’s the source whch auto redacts email addresses. Edit out phone numbers too please: http://eastangliaemails.com/ [...]

Whatever happened to back radiation? part II

A while ago I posted a tongue in cheek thread about the old Keihl and Trenberth Earth energy budget diagram and the new shiny all colour one NASA now has on their website. Here they are again for comparison:

Alistair Davidson: aerosols cause warming not cooling

I picked up this tidbit on Judy Curry’s blog: alistairmcd | November 13, 2010 at 11:43 am | Reply When I posted on Real Climate pointing out the glaring error in the optical physics used in most if not all the climate models to predict cloud albedo from optical depth**, my post was taken down [...]

Frank on the realclimate ocean heating experiment

Over on Science of Doom there has been a long thread about radiative flux and ocean heating. Frank mentioned this in suggestions, so I’m reposting his comment here for discussion as S.o.D didn’t engage with this reply from Frank: Frank said: November 11, 2010 at 5:48 pm Tallbloke, Cynicus, SOD, et al: Is there one [...]