Ian Wilson: Solving this week’s trade winds puzzle

Researcher and Talkshop contributor Ian Wilson writes: The Easterly Trade Winds Over the Equatorial Pacific Ocean Have Disappeared Over the Last 5 Days or So! If you want to find out why, go to his own blog post: here. – – – The trail of clues goes on from there!

Ian Wilson: Is the Next Big Westerly Wind Burst On Its Way?

‘I am really sticking my neck out on this one!’ – IW. Indeed – good luck, results next week. Note: El Niño link added, includes short video. Information on the progress of the latest MJO that started on 02/12/2018 [As of 09/12/2018] http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/mjo/ – last accessed at 7:00 P.M. EAST 09/12/2018 Hypothesis: During periods leading […]

Ian Wilson: Is the November 2018 Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO) a possible trigger for an El Niño?

The title says it all. Another in the author’s series of intriguing brain-teasers for followers of climate theory to explore, this time with a particularly topical theme. 1. The Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO) The Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO) is the dominant form of intra-seasonal (30 to 90 days) atmospheric variability in the Earth’s equatorial regions […]

Ian Wilson: A Severe Case of Cognitive Dissonance

[For details on the graph see below] Update 12/11/2018: Ian Wilson’s 2019 El Nino forecast can be found here. Cognitive Dissonance: When a person or a group of people have attitudes, beliefs or behaviors that are in conflict with each other. Generally, this produces a feeling of mental discomfort that leads to an alteration in […]

Ian Wilson: Help Needed to Solve an Interesting Lunar Puzzle

Astrophysicist Ian Wilson has emailed me to ask for a brainstorming session at the talkshop to assist him. Ian writes: “I was wondering if you or your colleagues (e.g. oldbrew) could help me work out the solution to the following lunar puzzle” The Conundrum The diagram below shows the Perigee of the lunar orbit pointing […]

Ian Wilson: Evidence that the Sun has always had an important influence upon climate change

Ian Wilson has just blogged this post, which should be a bit of a showstopper in the climate debate, but I expect it’ll be studiously ignored by mainstream climate scientists and lukewarm climate-sceptic blogs. By doing that, they’ll make themselves and their pet CO2 paradigm increasingly irrelevant to scientific progress. Key thing to note is that […]

Ian Wilson: Two new connections between the Planetary and Lunar Cycles

This article is a repost with permission of “Two new connections between the Planetary and Lunar Cycles” on Ian’s blog. Two new connections between the Planetary and Lunar Cycles 1. The Connection Between the Lunar Tidal Cycles and the Synodic Period of Venus and the Earth. The first direct connection between the planetary orbital periods […]

Ian Wilson: Are Lunar Tides Responsible for Historical Temperature Anomalies?

Reposted from Ian Wilson’s Astro-Climate Connection blog. PART B: A Mechanism for the Luni-Solar Tidal Explanation  PART A: Evidence for a Luni-Solar Tidal Explanation A. Brief Summary of the Main Conclusions of Part A. Evidence was presented in Part A  to show that the solar explanation for the Quasi-Decadal and Bi-Decadal Oscillations was essentially untenable. It was […]

Ian Wilson: The El Niños during New Moon Epoch 5 – 1963 to 1994

This repost of Ian Wilson’s Jan 1st article at his Astro-Climate-Connection blog continues development of his hypothesis that the Moon triggers El Nino events. This is relevant as we are currently on the cusp of El Nino, which may develop as the year goes on. Ian predicted El Nino for later this year in a comment […]

Ian Wilson: Connecting the Planetary Periodicities to Changes in the Earth’s LOD

Relevant to current discussions on the talkshop concerning changes in Earth’s length of day (LOD) and the effect of planetary orbital resonances on the Moon’s orbital parameters and Earth climatic variation; this is a repost from Ian Wilson’s excellent Astro-Climate-Connection website. Ian very generously opens with a hat tip to this blog, (at which he […]

Ian Wilson: Are the Strongest Lunar Perigean Spring Tides Commensurate with the Transit Cycle of Venus?

Congratulations to Astrophysicist Ian Wilson who has had a new paper published at Pattern Recognition in Physics: Discussion of this paper is going to be in the form of a workshop with specific objectives, and comments will be strictly moderated for relevance. The objectives will be announced by the main participants, Ian Wilson and Paul […]

Ian Wilson: Evidence that strong El Nino events are triggered by the Moon

Writing from Australia Ian Wilson will be familiar to Talkshop regulars expounding his interest in astronomical connections with earth. He has three related recent articles and now a summary binding them together. Tim adds, the subject has a long history including false accusations of astrology by detractors; in this linked 1999 paper by a veteran […]

Ian Wilson: 18.6 year lunar cycle in high rainfall years in Victoria

From Ian Wilson’s Astro-Climate Connection blog: The Moon’s orbit is tilted by approximately five degrees compared to the Earth-Sun plane. The net affect of this is that the strength of Lunar-tides at a given latitude on the Earth’s surface vary in strength over a cycle of 18.6 years. This 18.6 year Draconic cycle is also […]

Ian Wilson: Connecting the Planetary Periodicities to Changes in the Earth’s Length of Day

This guest post by Ian Wilson is very timely in the wake f the Wyatt-Curry paper currently under discussion here at the talkshop. Thanks Ian for the recognition of our independent work, although you are one of the ‘collaborators’ yourself! (that sounds very ‘conspiratorial’ 🙂 ). Connecting the Planetary Periodicities to Changes in the Earth’s […]

Ian Wilson: Venus-Earth-Jupiter Spin-Orbit Coupling Model

While the WUWTians get in a lather about a DSP modeled forecast of a 1C cooling by 2050, based on a 170yr fundamental period, we should take a cool look at Ian Wilson’s latest work which combines tidal and inertial mass theories of planetary-solar linkage. This model is particularly remarkable for it’s consonance with the […]

Ian Wilson: Connecting the 208 Year de Vries Cycle with the Earth-Moon System

Reposted for discussion from Ian Wilson’s blog Astro-Climate Connection UPDATED & CORRECTED 23/08/2013 Direct instrumental observations of the Sun since 1610 have shown that the level of sunspot activity on the Sun has a mean periodicity of 22.3 years, known as the Hale cycle. In addition, these observations of the Sun have shown that there […]

Ian Wilson: The VEJ Tidal Torquing Model can explain changes in the level of solar activity – Part 2 Halstatt Cycle

Reposted from Ian WIlson’s website Astro Climate Connection, this article looks at the congruence of the motions of Venus and Earth and Jupiter to produce a periodicity which matches a cycle seen in paleoproxy data believed to relate to changes in solar activity levels. . The VEJ Tidal Torquing Model can explain many of the […]

Ian Wilson: Long-Term Lunar Atmospheric Tides in the Southern Hemisphere

This open access paper from Ian Wilson is the culmination of exhaustive work on surveying terrestrial climate data and relating it to celestial motion. Co-authored with Nicolai Sidorenkov, it is another major step forward in verifying the connections between Earth’s climatic change and Solar System Dynamics. Next we’ll be looking at Ian’s Subsequent paper: ‘Are […]

Ian Wilson: Linking the Orbital Configuration of Jupiter, Saturn, Venus & Earth to Lunar Tides & Earth’s Climate

This post reblogged from Astrophysicist Ian Wilson’s website Astro-Climate Connection is a precursor to the post I’ll be putting together to cover his latest published paper. It summarises some of the connections he has discovered between planetary and lunar motions and Earth’s climate. The causation path also runs via our proposed planetary effect on solar activity […]

Ian Wilson: Linking the Orbital Configuration of Jupiter, Venus and the Earth to the Terrestrial Lunar Tides

Talkshop contributor Ian Wilson has put up a post on his own blog Linking the Orbital Configuration of Jupiter, Venus and the Earth to the Terrestrial Lunar Tides Cherry picking Ian’s content … This conjecture was based upon the following two observations: 1. Synchronization of the Draconic year with the Jupiter’s orbital period.