Wilson of the Cloud Chamber – broadcast in 1959

‘Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, CH, FRS (14 February 1869 – 15 November 1959) was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cloud chamber. . . . The invention of the cloud chamber was by far Wilson’s signature accomplishment, earning him the Nobel Prize for Physics […]

Wilson and Sidorenkov – A Luni-Solar Connection to Weather and Climate III: Sub-Centennial Time Scales

Thanks to Ian Wilson for introducing us to his new paper, which is part three of the planned four-part series. The paper can be downloaded from The General Science Journal here. Abstract below. Abstract The best way to study the changes in the climate “forcings” that impact the Earth’s mean atmospheric temperature is to look […]

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 […]

Wilson & Sidorenkov: A Luni-Solar Connection to Weather and Climate I: Centennial Time Scales

Ian Robert George Wilson and Nikolay S Sidorenkov Wilson and Sidorenkov, J Earth Sci Clim Change 2018, 9:1, p. 446 https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/a-lunisolar-connection-to-weather-and-climate-i-centennial-times-scales-2157-7617-1000446.pdf Abstract Lunar ephemeris data is used to find the times when the Perigee of the lunar orbit points directly toward or away from the Sun, at times when the Earth is located at one […]

Sidorenkov and Wilson: new solar retrograde motion paper

H/T Michele Casati INFLUENCE OF SOLAR RETROGRADE MOTION ON TERRESTRIAL PROCESSES N.S.Sidorenkov, Ian Wilson ABSTRACT. The influence of solar retrograde motion on secular minima of solar activity, volcanic eruptions, climate changes, and other terrestrial processes is investigated. Most collected data suggest that secular minima of solar activity, powerful volcanic eruptions, significant climate changes, and catastrophic […]

Sammy Wilson: Trump’s Climate Change Decision Poses Huge Problem For UK

Sammy Wilson was the Democratic Unionist Party’s environment minister in 2008-9. He campaigned vigorously for the United Kingdom to leave the EU and believes that the country would be better served being in charge of our own finances, trade and immigration laws. He serves on the Brexit Committee at Westminster. No wonder the left wing […]

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 […]

Robert M Wilson: On The Distribution of Sunspot Cycle Periods

Back in 1987, Robert M Wilson of NASA’s Space Science Laboratory in Huntsville published this paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research. It’s important to our solar-planetary theory because it shows that the Sun is bi-modal in terms of its solar cycle lengths. They cluster around  periods of a little over ten and a little under […]

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 […]