Climate Stats: Update Usually, this publication updates the monthly Sunspot count and includes a few timely charts. The posting for July extends the downtrend. However, some recent headlines on government tampering of data for political reasons indicates growing awareness about long-running corruption. This edition reviews the scandal, including an independent abstract on the subject. Over the past decade there has been a breakthrough in understanding the links between diminishing solar activity and diminishing magnetic fields. In turn, this allows more cosmic rays through, which prompts more cloud cover, which reflects more of the Sun’s energy, which forces cooling.
This process is well-researched and is a profound step in understanding the real history of climate change. On Saturday Bob was one of the speakers at a seminar called “Capitalism and Morality”. Ian Plimer also spoke. His title is Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne. We enjoyed some convivial drinks during one of those lovely evenings on Vancouver’s waterfront. Ian thinks that Henrik Svensmark should get a Nobel in Physics for the breakthrough. Ian has published some worthwhile books on climate. Just Google Ian Plimer Books.
The notion that the Earth’s temperature could be “managed” by a committee of experts has always been preposterous. However, academic pressures could be daunting. Many have been retiring and tenure no longer a constraint upon the elusive concept of academic freedom. This is an expanding source of comment. Amongst younger physicists, Nir Shaviv, who has done some serious work on the cosmic theory, is quoted:
“A few years ago if you would ask me I would tell you it’s CO2. Why? Because just like everyone in the public I listened to what the media had to say.”
He then went on to some significant contributions to the subject.
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