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Solar Cycle 24 double peak now clearly evident

ktwop wrote 2 weeks ago: Already in March there were signs that this Solar Cycle 24 would exibit a double peak. NASA’s … more →

Tags: Science, Climate, Climate, Dalton Minimum, Landscheidt Minimum, Little Ice Age, maunder Minimum, NASA, SC24

The climate is a-changin

ktwop wrote 1 month ago: The winds of climate are changing direction – again. Forty years ago “climate scientists … more →

Tags: alarmism, Climate, Science, Climate, climate change, climate-scientists, Earth, Global Warming, ice age

Could solar flare last week be linked to two major earthquakes yesterday?

ktwop wrote 1 month ago: Like primitive man I am overwhelmed by the power of the Sun and a firm believer that even minute sol … more →

Tags: Natural Disasters, Natural Phenomena, Volcanos, Sun, solar flare, Earth, Earthquakes, solar effects, coronal mass ejection

Idiot science? Urban vegetation decreases violent crime but not theft!

ktwop wrote 1 month ago: Correlation and causation again! Correlation does not necessarily mean causation and even real causa … more →

Tags: Behaviour, social science 2, bad science, Philadelphia, Temple University, Urban Planning, Vegetation, Crime

Does the solar cycle impact the global economic cycle?

ktwop wrote 1 month ago: That weather and climate are affected by solar cycles is highly likely even if it is not part of the … more →

Tags: Business, Economics 2, solar cycle, solar maximum, economic cycle, Gorbanev, IMF, solar effects on economy

Prof. Peter A. Ziegler: Solar effects drive climate change not CO21 comment

ktwop wrote 2 months ago: Peter Ziegler: image The Geological Society Prof. Peter Ziegler (b. 1928) is a Swiss geologist  and … more →

Tags: alarmism, Climate, Science, carbon dioxide, climate change, Global Warming, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ipcc, maunder Minimum

Double peak in Solar Cycle 24? as in SC14 and in SC5?

ktwop wrote 2 months ago: The NOAA/NASA Solar Cycle Prediction Panel is puzzled. They don’t know if we are reaching sola … more →

Tags: Climate, solar cycle, solar maximum, Sun, maunder Minimum, SUNSPOT, NASA, SC24, Dalton Minimum

The ionosphere of Venus set free

cecilegatu wrote 3 months ago: Today I came by an interesting story: What actually happens if the solar wind is weaker than normal? … more →

Tags: Electromagnetism, solar system research

Solar Cycle 24 will be the smallest sunspot cycle since 1906 (SC 14)1 comment

ktwop wrote 4 months ago: The January 2013 NASA forecast for the development of Solar Cycle 24 is out. SC 24 prediction Jan 20 … more →

Tags: Climate, climate change, Dalton Minimum, global cooling, maunder Minimum, SC 24, SC14, SC5, solar cycles

One day the Sun will die, but till then - Dies Natalis Solis Invicti MMXII

ktwop wrote 5 months ago: Here at a latitude of 58.7057° N, the Sun is eagerly awaited every day and is sorely missed if it is … more →

Tags: Trivia, Sun, Sol Invictus, Renewal, 25.12.2012, birth of the sun

The sun at solstice 12.12 CET on 21.12.2012

ktwop wrote 5 months ago: The shortest day of the year has come and gone and the countdown to summer (in the Northern Hemisphe … more →

Tags: winter, Sun, NASA, northern hemisphere, winter solstice, SDO

14-Year-old is America's Top Young Scientist

Kids Talk Radio wrote 5 months ago: 14-Year-old is America’s Top Young Scientist: Her Solar-Powered Jug Purifies Water. This proje … more →

Tags: STEM & STEAM Projects, Bob Barboza, Cabo Verde Tenth Island Project, Kids Talk Radio Science

Solar Cycle 24 prediction: On track to be smallest in 100 years

ktwop wrote 11 months ago: NASA has updated its forecast for Solar Cycle 24. Maximum is expected to be reached in Spring 2013 w … more →

Tags: global cooling, Landscheidt Minimum, NASA, solar cycle, SOLAR CYCLE 24, Sun

More evidence that cloud cover - and not carbon dioxide - dominates climate

ktwop wrote 1 year ago: The Hockey Shtick reports on a recent paper by Aldert J. van Beelen and Aarnout J. van Delden of the … more →

Tags: Environment, Climate, clouds, ipcc, carbon dioxide, solar effects, clouds, Cosmic Rays, cern

Droughts on the Tibetan plateau coincide with grand solar minima

ktwop wrote 1 year ago: Yet another paper indicating that climate and solar behaviour are related – at least over the … more →

Tags: Climate, maunder Minimum, solar variation, Dalton Minimum, solar effects on climate, Tibetan Plateau, sporer minimum, grand solar minima

Solar effects on climate - evidence mounts that the Little Ice Age was a global event

ktwop wrote 1 year ago: And another paper showing that the Little Ice Age was a global event.It is highly probable that the … more →

Tags: Climate, Southern Hemisphere, Antarctica, Little Ice Age, maunder Minimum, solar effects on climate, WAIS Divide, West Antarctic Ice Sheet

New study shows solar minimum does cause climate cooling12 comments

ktwop wrote 1 year ago: A new paper in Nature Geoscience shows that solar grand minima do indeed cause cooling of the climat … more →

Tags: alarmism, Climate, climate change, homeric minimum, Landscheidt Minmum, maunder Minimum, pre-roman iron age, solar effects on climate, Solar Minimum

Japanese astronomers also see a Maunder-like solar minimum coming2 comments

ktwop wrote 1 year ago: We have been seeing signs that a new solar minimum is probably established and that we are in for a … more →

Tags: Climate, Science, Asahi Shimbun, Dalton Minimum, hinode, Landscheidt Minimum, maunder Minimum, solar magnetic poles, Theodor Landscheidt

Solar Cycle 24 NASA forecast update

ktwop wrote 1 year ago: David Hathaway has a new forecast for solar cycle 24: The current prediction for Sunspot Cycle 24 gi … more →

Tags: Climate, David Hathaway, Landscheidt Minimum, prediction, SC 24, SC25, solar cycle, SOLAR CYCLE 24


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