Watts Up With That? (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... The value is now 3 for the month. Here’s my graph from October 2009 SWPC Ap data: Click to enlarge Leif Svalgaard points out to me another indicator of low solar magnetic activity. Bill Livingston was able to observe sunspot group 1029, and measure its magnetic field and contrast. Leif’s graph with my annotation for group 1029 is below. By itself, this one sunspot group isn’t...
NC Media Watch (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Russ Steele NASA's David Hathaway, Ph.D., Heliospheric Team Leader, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, finally admits that Solar Cycle 24 is going to be a small cycle and that Dr. Leif Svalgaard was right back in 2006 when...
Watts Up With That? (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Guest post by Dr. Leif Svalgaard The following abstract of a poster to be presented next month at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union caught my eye: Session Title: GC11A. Diverse Views From Galileo’s Window: Solar Forcing of Climate Change Posters Chair: Willie Soon, Nicola Scafetta, Richard C Willson ID# GC11A-0685: Dec [...]
Watts Up With That? (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
(From PhysOrg.com h/t to Leif Svalgaard )– Climate scientists recognize that climate modeling projections include a significant level of uncertainty. A team of researchers using computing facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has identified a new method for quantifying this uncertainty. The new approach suggests that the range of uncertainty in climate projections may be greater...
