Sentences with phrase «how changes in solar activity»

Not exact matches

«If we figure out how much atmosphere is removed by changes in solar activity, we can extrapolate back to estimate what the isotope ratios should have been billions of years ago.

There are a large number of recent peer - reviewed scientific publications demonstrating how solar activity can affect our climate (Benestad, 2002), such as how changes in the UV radiation following the solar activity affect the stratospheric ozone concentrations (1999) and how earth's temperatures respond to changes in the total solar irradiance (Meehl, 2003).

I particularly enjoyed the slides that, when combined (1) provided an overview of hotter and cooler CO2 molecules as it relates to how they are seen from outer space and from profile — because this will make it easier for me to explain this process to others; (2) walked through the volcanic and solar activity vs assigning importance to CO2 changes — because this another way to help make it clearer, too, but in another way; (3) discussed CO2 induced warming and ocean rise vs different choices we might make — because this helps point out why every day's delay matters; and (4) showed Figure 1 from William Nordhaus» «Strategies for Control of Carbon Dioxide» and then super-imposed upon that the global mean temperature in colors showing pre-paper and post-paper periods — because this helps to show just how far back it was possible to make reasoned projections without the aid of a more nuanced and modern understanding.

When we do, no matter how good the climate model is it will not be able to overcome deficiencies in our ability to predict the things that affect climate — solar activity, ocean cycles, etc — and it will not be able to overcome deficiencies in our understanding of how things that affect climate actually work — solar activity, Earth orbital changes, etc..

You have not cited a third possibility (out of the infinite range of possibilities), no climate change associated with CO2 (due to, for example, cloud cover providing negative feedback), with current increase due to natural variability; or how about possibility four, that increase in CO2 concentrations are caused by the temperature rise, which is in turn caused by (for example) increased solar activity resulting in increased biomass activity etc. etc..

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In particular, given that there has been no trend in the sunspot count or cosmic ray flux over the last 50 years [1], while the global temperature has increased by 0.5 - 0.6 °C [2], how can one seriously claim that your work shows solar activity to be the major driver of climate change today and over the last 50 yearIn particular, given that there has been no trend in the sunspot count or cosmic ray flux over the last 50 years [1], while the global temperature has increased by 0.5 - 0.6 °C [2], how can one seriously claim that your work shows solar activity to be the major driver of climate change today and over the last 50 yearin the sunspot count or cosmic ray flux over the last 50 years [1], while the global temperature has increased by 0.5 - 0.6 °C [2], how can one seriously claim that your work shows solar activity to be the major driver of climate change today and over the last 50 years?

Other studies have examined how the global temperature has changed in response to changes in solar activity.

The study of solar cycles and their climatic effect is hampered by a very short observational record (~ 400 years), an inadequate understanding of the physical causes that might produce centennial to millennial changes in solar activity, and an inadequate knowledge of how such changes produce their climatic effect.

My Hot Water Bottle Effect shows how any apparently minor changes in solar activity can be supplemented or offset to match the observed changes in global temperature trend during the latter half of the 20th Century.

If so, how does the current statement of «solar activity leading to cooling» reconcile with the previous description of the last century's temperature changes as described in the original, 2008 article?

Thus solar activity has associated positive feedback when more active and negative feedback when less active, dramatically magnifying Earth's thermal response to changes in solar activity and explaining how fractions of Wm - 2 change in direct solar radiation translate to many Wm - 2 effect between positive and negative phases of relative solar activity.