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The current solar cycle is the longest in
at least 150 years, says Dr. Richard Mackey of
Australia, a solar statistician expert. It has had more
sunspot-less days - 689 days as of
today – which is more than double the number in the cycles the
last half century, said
Mackey, a peer-reviewed author on solar climate factors.
“Other scientists report that the solar
wind (a large proportion of the Sun’s output of
matter in the plasma form) is in a lower energy state than found
since space measurements
began nearly 40 years ago.” (Another reason to believe that
it will grow even colder.)
Then there’s the feature article “Natural antidote to global
warming” written by Sir John
Maddox, then the editor of Nature and published in Nature on 21
September 1995. Sir
John referred to the extensive research published up to 1995
indicating the Sun-climate
relationship and that the Sun was likely to enter into a Maunder
Minimum inducing state
(The last Little Ice Age) sometime during the first few
decades of the new millennium.”
“Livingston and Penn and a large number of solar physicists …
say that the likelihood
of the Earth being seized by Maunder Minimum is now greater that
the Earth being seized
by a period of global warming.”
See entire article(including graphs), originally entitled
“Longer term Solar Minimum – Dalton or Maunder”
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog
Thanks to Mike McEvoy for this link
* EOS is the professional publication of
the American Geophysical Union. The feature
articles in EOS are generally supportive of the IPCC dogma, so
this is a very important
article.
** Icecap is not just a bunch of
wild-eyed “deniers”
Here are some of the experts whose stories you may see on
Icecap :
Joseph D’Aleo, Executive Director, Certified Consultant
Meteorologist and Fellow
of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).
Robert C. Balling Jr., Professor of Climatology, Arizona State
University
Sallie Baliunas, Astrophysicist
Reid A. Bryson, Ph.D. D.Sc. D.Engr., Global
500 Laureate, Senior Scientist,
Center for Climatic Research, Emeritus Prof. of Meteorology, of
Geography, and
of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Robert Carter, Researcher at the Marine
Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook
University, Australia, a paleontologist, stratigrapher and
marine geologist with more
than thirty years of professional experience with degrees from
the University of
Otago (New Zealand) and the University of Cambridge (England
John Coleman, Founder of The Weather
Channel, TV Meteorologist KUSI-TV,
San Diego. John has been a TV weatherman since he was a freshman
in college in 1953.
William Cotton, Professor in the Department of Atmospheric
Science at Colorado
State University
Chris De Freitas, climate scientist in the
School of Geography, Geology and
Environmental Science at the University of Auckland. Chris has
Bachelors and
Masters degrees from the University of Toronto and a PhD from
the University
of Queensland as a Commonwealth Scholar.
David Deming, Associate Professor of Arts
and Science at the University of
Oklahoma, graduated from Indiana University in
1983 with a BS degree in geology
and received a Ph.D in geophysics from the University of Utah in
1988.
Bob Durrenberger, Retired Climatologist, a
meteorologist for 65 years and a
climatologist for 60+ years.
Mel Goldstein, Chief Meteorologist for News
Channel 8 in Connecticut.
Dr. Vincent Gray, an “Expert Reviewer” for
the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change, has published many papers on climate science
including
detailed critiques on each of the IPCC science reports.
Dr. William Gray, Meteorologist, may be the world’s most famous
hurricane expert.
Ben Herman, Professor and former Head of
the Atmospheric Sciences
Department at the University of Arizona and former Director of
the Institute
of Atmospheric Physics
Douglas V. Hoyt, Solar Physicist and
Climatologist, has worked for more
than thirty years as a research scientist in the field.
Warwick Hughes, Earth Scientist, a graduate
in geology from Auckland
University who has carried out pioneering research on surface
temperature
measurement.
Madhav Khandekar, retired Meteorologist,
formerly with Environment
Canada, specializes in understanding extreme weather events in
Canada
and in other parts of the world.
David Legates, Associate Professor in
Climatology, University of Delaware
Joseph E. Luisi, Former Chief Meteorologist
for Delta Airlines, with the
Delta Air Lines Meteorology Department for 28 years.
Anthony Lupo, Professor of Atmospheric
Science,
University of Missouri-Columbia
Pat Michaels, Research professor of
environmental sciences,
University of Virginia
H. Michael “Mike” Mogil, Certified
Consulting Meteorologist, a
seasoned meteorologist with B.S. and M.S. degrees in meteorology
from Florida State University.
Tad Murty, Adjunct Professor of Earth
Sciences and Civil Engineering,
University of Ottawa.
James O’Brien, Director Emeritus of the
Center for Ocean-Atmospheric
Prediction Studies at Florida State University
Tom Victor Segalstad, Associate Professor
of Resource- and
Environmental Geology at the University of Oslo and expert IPCC
reviewer
Dr. Gary Sharp, Scientific Director, Center
for Climate/Ocean Resources Study
S. Fred Singer, President of the Science &
Environment Policy Project.
Singer is also a Distinguished Research Professor at George
Mason
University and professor emeritus of environmental science at
the
University of Virginia.
Roy Spencer, Principal Research Scientist,
University of Alabama and
the U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning
Radiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite. Received his Ph.D. in
Meteorology
from the University of Wisconsin in 1981.
George Taylor, Certified Consulting
Meteorologist, who retired in 2008
after 19 years as State Climatologist for Oregon.
Hendrik Tennekes, Former Director of
Research, Royal Netherlands
Meteorological Institute
Richard C. Willson, Principal Investigator, ACRIM Experiments,
holds a doctoral degree in Atmospheric Sciences from the
University
of California-Los Angeles, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics |
