The WSO Polar field strengths - early indicators of solar maximums and minimums - have dived towards zero recently, indicating that its all down from here for solar cycle 24. Polar field reversals can occur within a year of sunspot maximum, but cycle 24 has been so insipid, it would not be surprising if the maximum sunspot number fails to reach the NOAA predicted peak of 90 spots per month, and get no higher than the current 60 spots per month. The peak in solar intensity was predicted Read more [...] 3 com

The Beenstock, Reingewertz, and Paldor paper on lack of cointegration of global temperature with CO2 has been accepted! This is a technical paper that we have been following since 2009 when an unpublished manuscript appeared, rebutting the statistical link between global temperature increase and anthropogenic factors like CO2, and so represents another nail in the coffin of CAGW. The editor praised the work as "challenging" and "needed in our field of work." Does the increase in CO2 concentration Read more [...] 9 com

Once upon a time, a weakening of the East-West Pacific overturning circulation – called the Walker circulation – was regarded in climate science as a robust response to anthropogenic global warming. This belief was based on studies in 2006 and 2007 using climate models. Together with a number of El Nino events (that are associated with a weakening of the Walker circulation) the alarm was raised in a string of papers (3-6) that global warming was now impacting the Pacific Ocean and that the Read more [...] 2 com