Previous climate change models predicted that global sea levels would rise by a meter by the year 2100 due in part to melting Antarctic ice, but those estimates have proven to be flawed. Over the past century, the Antarctic has gone from being a vast Terra Incognita to a continent-sized ticking time bomb: according to NASA, Antarctica has […]

Presentation by Professor Nir Shaviv on the The Cosmic Ray Climate Link: From Geological Timescales to 20th Century Climate Change. London, 4 April 2018

Whoops. Scientists have discovered that the massive bursts of solar activity we call ‘solar tornadoes’ are not at all like the twisters we get here on Earth – even though they sure appeared similar on a gigantic scale. The term describes the enormous eruptions of gas that appear to swirl up from the Sun’s surface, but […]

New understanding of ultra-long timescales provides a new take  on climate.   London, 6 April: A newly published paper in the journal Physica A suggests that there is an undiscovered universe all around us that we are too short-lived to perceive. Authors Prof. Christopher Essex (Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario) and Prof. Anastasios Tsonis (Mathematical Sciences, […]

“Our results show that Earth has had a moderate temperature through virtually all of its history, and that is attributable to weathering feedbacks — they do a good job at maintaining a habitable climate.” Theories about the early days of our planet’s history vary wildly. Some studies have painted the picture of a snowball Earth, […]

The 1997-1998 El Niño versus the 2015-2016 event. How do they differ? How are they similar? The takeaway? Now that the global HadCRUT4.6 dataset is available for February 2018, it is possible to examine a 4-year period for both El Niños, including the ‘pre’ and ‘post’ months for each. These two major El Niño events do have some […]

Our closest star remains an enigma. Every 11 years or so its activity crescendos, creating flares and coronal mass ejections—the plasma-spewing eruptions that shower Earth with charged particles and beautiful auroral displays—but then it decrescendos. The so-called solar maximum fades toward solar minimum, and the sun’s surface grows eerily quiet. Scientists have studied this ebb and flow for centuries, […]

London 27 March 2018: A new report from the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) counters media hype over recent warm global temperatures, showing that almost all of the sudden increase in temperatures in the last couple of years was caused by a record strong natural El Nino phenomenon rather than global warming. The report’s author, […]