Solar astrophysicist Dr Valelntina Zharkova's (She's Ukrainian; works in UK) important work can be found on Youtube (for now) if you look for it.
Dr Zharkova, Engineers, and geologists pay attention to the banned website "Electroverse" which is censored but which you can still find and bookmark, and subscribe to the occasional newsletter. A lay person can follow it easily, and it categories articles to make it user friendly.
The "coinciding" low-sunspot cycles we are now entering is called the "Eddy Minimum" which will last until about 2053. This means erratic growing seasons and food production, -- even before the shortage of fertiliser.
An important consideration not mentioned is that low sunspot activity has knock-on effects on the electromagnetic charge of the earth's core, which increases vulcanism, earthquakes, and resultant tsunamis. Low Sunspot activity indirectly influences the sea currents, (keep an eye on the Gulf Stream, and the important gyre currents.) Sunspot activity Also influences the cycle of magnetic pole-shift.
Climate change is not my field but the site has a lot of interesting data.
For example, The UAH Satelite Temperature graph shows the famous 'hockey stick' (if you average out the seasonal variations) but more importantly what has happened afterwards.
A lot of climate scaremongering seems to have originated with the hockey stick and the implication that we would be seeing an exponential temperature increase until we all fried.
It's also good to see that other researchers like Dr. Abdussamatov concur with the view that temperatures will fall and that this process has already begun.
Time will tell and I think climate dissenters need to be ready with a coherent narrative on how this has happened. Without doubt the elites will claim it's all the windmills, EVs, solar panels etc. that have done it and it's all down to their vision.
Thank you good Sir. I was alerted to "Electroverse" by a mining engineer. Engineers are not an excitable lot, and aren't big on political activism. As sparkling conversationists, they tend to be slightly less boring than accountants. But they are big on knowing wide sources of "useful data" for all sorts of purposes.
When an engineer-neighbour offhandedly said 3 years ago that he birthday-gifted his surprised and not entirely pleased wife with an "egglu" and some rare-breed German hens (Lakenvelders? Silver-spangled Hambergs?) that don't need commercial feeds (they're happy on table-scraps) two years before the current egg shortage, my immediate reaction was to ask, "what made you do that?"
He replied with a mind-numbingly boring list of various research papers about bird flu, sunspot cycles, and agricultural trends; with the result that his wife exults in her own egg wealth; and (with enlightened self-interest) he still can count on his usual 2 eggs for breakfast, even if the local Aldi is out of them.
Jim - interesting stuff about sun-spots, climate change is hugely complex but certainly exploring extraterrestrial causes must add to the quality of our models.
The impact of mankind on this planet can be clearly seen - it would be unlikely that pollution, warfare and the destruction of nature did not have any effect. Surprisingly the Covid lockdowns do not appear to have had a measurable impact - "the annual temperature and rainfall did not change significantly" (https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/news/2021/how-did-covid-19-lockdowns-affect-the-climate).
I believe the focus on 'net zero' is a fudge - electric vehicles and heat pumps need power and despite investment in solar and wind, fossil fuels will continue to be the main source. Unless, of course, we can get our nuclear act together (you were wondering!).
Thanks for that. Solar irradiance is by far the most important influence on the climate and so the climate is very sensitive to small variations. The climate being unaffected by massive global shutdowns lends weak support to that idea.
As a Scot I have a strong urge to not waste anything, especially energy (or maybe I should say money)! There are two things about net zero that are problematic for me:
1. zero may well be an unnecessarily tight target - we just don't know what a sustainable emissions target is.
2. we're jumping at this without proper consideration. It's a bit like the ventilators at the start of Covid. A lot of damage could be caused by going hell for leather. Especially if the predictions of a mini ice age over the next few decades prove to be correct.
Fusion would indeed be a good answer but I'm not hanging my hat on that one.
Nice work Julie - logo 4 is appropriate, many heads speaking as one? Adding the colours from logo 3 might be cool. Logo 2 not so good, looks like a blazer badge!
Thank you, David. I think we'll have a few more iterations of this and I take the point about Latin. And perhaps some oriental wisdom - I hadn't thought of that.
Solar astrophysicist Dr Valelntina Zharkova's (She's Ukrainian; works in UK) important work can be found on Youtube (for now) if you look for it.
Dr Zharkova, Engineers, and geologists pay attention to the banned website "Electroverse" which is censored but which you can still find and bookmark, and subscribe to the occasional newsletter. A lay person can follow it easily, and it categories articles to make it user friendly.
The "coinciding" low-sunspot cycles we are now entering is called the "Eddy Minimum" which will last until about 2053. This means erratic growing seasons and food production, -- even before the shortage of fertiliser.
An important consideration not mentioned is that low sunspot activity has knock-on effects on the electromagnetic charge of the earth's core, which increases vulcanism, earthquakes, and resultant tsunamis. Low Sunspot activity indirectly influences the sea currents, (keep an eye on the Gulf Stream, and the important gyre currents.) Sunspot activity Also influences the cycle of magnetic pole-shift.
I found the website at https://electroverse.co/
Climate change is not my field but the site has a lot of interesting data.
For example, The UAH Satelite Temperature graph shows the famous 'hockey stick' (if you average out the seasonal variations) but more importantly what has happened afterwards.
A lot of climate scaremongering seems to have originated with the hockey stick and the implication that we would be seeing an exponential temperature increase until we all fried.
It's also good to see that other researchers like Dr. Abdussamatov concur with the view that temperatures will fall and that this process has already begun.
Time will tell and I think climate dissenters need to be ready with a coherent narrative on how this has happened. Without doubt the elites will claim it's all the windmills, EVs, solar panels etc. that have done it and it's all down to their vision.
Thank you good Sir. I was alerted to "Electroverse" by a mining engineer. Engineers are not an excitable lot, and aren't big on political activism. As sparkling conversationists, they tend to be slightly less boring than accountants. But they are big on knowing wide sources of "useful data" for all sorts of purposes.
When an engineer-neighbour offhandedly said 3 years ago that he birthday-gifted his surprised and not entirely pleased wife with an "egglu" and some rare-breed German hens (Lakenvelders? Silver-spangled Hambergs?) that don't need commercial feeds (they're happy on table-scraps) two years before the current egg shortage, my immediate reaction was to ask, "what made you do that?"
He replied with a mind-numbingly boring list of various research papers about bird flu, sunspot cycles, and agricultural trends; with the result that his wife exults in her own egg wealth; and (with enlightened self-interest) he still can count on his usual 2 eggs for breakfast, even if the local Aldi is out of them.
Jim - interesting stuff about sun-spots, climate change is hugely complex but certainly exploring extraterrestrial causes must add to the quality of our models.
The impact of mankind on this planet can be clearly seen - it would be unlikely that pollution, warfare and the destruction of nature did not have any effect. Surprisingly the Covid lockdowns do not appear to have had a measurable impact - "the annual temperature and rainfall did not change significantly" (https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/news/2021/how-did-covid-19-lockdowns-affect-the-climate).
I believe the focus on 'net zero' is a fudge - electric vehicles and heat pumps need power and despite investment in solar and wind, fossil fuels will continue to be the main source. Unless, of course, we can get our nuclear act together (you were wondering!).
Thanks for that. Solar irradiance is by far the most important influence on the climate and so the climate is very sensitive to small variations. The climate being unaffected by massive global shutdowns lends weak support to that idea.
As a Scot I have a strong urge to not waste anything, especially energy (or maybe I should say money)! There are two things about net zero that are problematic for me:
1. zero may well be an unnecessarily tight target - we just don't know what a sustainable emissions target is.
2. we're jumping at this without proper consideration. It's a bit like the ventilators at the start of Covid. A lot of damage could be caused by going hell for leather. Especially if the predictions of a mini ice age over the next few decades prove to be correct.
Fusion would indeed be a good answer but I'm not hanging my hat on that one.
Nice work Julie - logo 4 is appropriate, many heads speaking as one? Adding the colours from logo 3 might be cool. Logo 2 not so good, looks like a blazer badge!
“confidamus invicem”. But I’m not sure about the Latin. Esperanto? Or something from the Tao? Very interesting politically. The yin yang symbol?
Thank you, David. I think we'll have a few more iterations of this and I take the point about Latin. And perhaps some oriental wisdom - I hadn't thought of that.