The North Atlantic jet stream correlates with Solar output over a millennium
A new paper (Moffa-Sánchez et al) reports that they looked at layers of dead plankton in ocean mud (otherwise known as foraminifera in marine sediments) and have reconstructed the temperature and...
View ArticleSun controls half of the groundwater recharge rate in China for last 700 years
Could this be why climate models do rainfall with all the competence of tea-leaf-reading? Tiwari et al report that as much as 47% of the recharge rates of ground water in China are controlled by the...
View ArticleScientific American: black death and slavery cause the little ice age?
Looks like Scientific American has gone a bit “cosmic”: The Little Ice Age was apparently caused by black death, small pox, and slavery. The theory goes that there was a small spikey dip in CO2 levels...
View ArticleHow do we panic about warming during a maunder-type freeze?
Is this the way the Great Global Warming Scare fades out? The UK newspapers are full of “Maunder Freeze Coming” as forecast by Ineson et al.[1] Rest assured, the solar-driven-cold is only a local...
View ArticleSolar activity was really at exceptional lows during the cold Maunder Minimum
Fig 3 (Part VI only) Sunspot drawing of by G.D. Cassini in 1671 (Oldenburg, 1671c). What is surprising is just how much data we have on the Sun from 400 years ago. For some aspects of solar activity we...
View ArticleExperts “surprised” to discover what skeptics have known for years: world has...
For years, skeptical scientists have been pointing at data that showed the the world started warming somewhere from 1700 – 1820. This has been known from glaciers, sea level studies, ice cores,...
View ArticleHistory rewritten, Global Cooling from 1940 – 1970, an 83% consensus, 285...
The Global Cooling Scare of the 1970s was real, there was a consensus, and it was all over the media. It flies in the face of the man-made warming campaign. After World War II there was a massive...
View ArticleScottish summers not doing anything they haven’t done for 800 years already
Gotta love a long unbroken proxy. Scientists looked at 44 pines sites across the Scottish Highlands and used their tree rings to create a continuous temperature series for the last 810 years. Showing...
View ArticleWorst Storm Ever: Over 8,000 people killed in UK in extreme storm that lasted...
Cropped from The Great Storm by Goodwin Sands, 1703 While we soak in storm footage this week, imagine this storm! Back when CO2 levels were ideal, the UK was hit by a monster nine-day storm: at least...
View ArticleEvil whites caused the Little Ice Age by bringing small-pox to America
Is it April 1st in London? The BBC is reporting that academics from University College London have discovered that the Little Ice Age was not caused by the record low solar activity of the Maunder...
View ArticleAntarctica was warmer one thousand years ago — and life was OK
Remember when polar amplification was the rage? So much for that theory Antarctica is twice the size of the US or Australia. Buried 2 km deep under domes of snow, it holds 58 meters of global sea level...
View ArticleDenying 2000 years of the Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age on every...
Here we go again. For five or so years believers didn’t really mention the Medieval Warm Period. Too bruised by the embarrassment of Hockey Stick Zombie failures. But it’s an inconvenient era they have...
View ArticleIn 1978 we were heading toward another ice age
Spock (Leonard Nimoy) was warning people about the next ice age coming in 1978: The world has cooled for the last 3,000 years. The glaciers have expanded. Temperatures have fallen dramatically in the...
View Article2,500 years of wild climate change in southern Europe: It was warmer in Roman...
By Jo Nova Nothing at all about the modern era stands out as unusual Thanks to David Whitehouse at NetZeroWatch who has found a remarkable paper: Pyrenean caves reveal a warmer past The new study on...
View ArticleGlobal Cooling wipes out Elephant Seals and Penguin colonies from warmer...
By Jo Nova Where are the tears? Elephant Seals and Penguins were forced off the Ross sea 1,000 years ago because it got too cold One thousand years ago Southern Elephant Seals were happily living in...
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