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Willie Soon

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:40:50 +0000

Willie Wei-Hock Soon (born 1966) is an astrophysicist at the Solar and Stellar Physics Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is known for his views that most global warming is caused by solar variation.
He is chief science adviser to the Science and Public Policy Institute, an organisation which devotes most of its scientific coverage to arguing against anthropogenic global warming or playing down the effects of global warming. In 2003, he was invited to testify in the United States Senate and was later recognized, with an award, for “detailed scholarship on biogeological and climatic change over the past 1000 years” by the Smithsonian Institution. In June 2004, he was presented with the Petr Beckmann award of the by Doctors for Disaster Preparedness for “courage and achievement in defense of scientific truth and freedom.”

Dr Willie Soon is the co-author of a famous article entitled Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide.

The 12-page review article rejects the human caused global warming hypothesis. The article and its conclusions is the scientific basis of the Global warming petition project where 31,486 American scientists have signed a petition, to urge the United States government to reject the Kyoto protocol -and any other similar proposal -because there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of greenhouse gases is causing catastrophic heating of the Earth´s atmosphere.

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Warming Not Unusual

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:26:56 +0000

The 20th century warming is not unusual, Says Dr. Sallie Baliunas and Dr. Willie Soon from the harvard.

They have conducted a resarch that once and for all confirms that the climate globally have had swings up and down for the last 10.000 years. Of special interest is the claim that the MWP from year 900 to 1300 was warmer than today….

Sallie Baliunas has along with her colleagues, Harvard astrophysicists Dr. Willie Soon and Dr. David Legates, in strong terms criticised the validity of the “hockey stick” by Michael Mann. The hockey stick were for many years the icon of manmade global warming. The pilar that the arguments were standing on. Michael Mann argued that the warming in the last 100 years were unpresidented and it was 98% likely that humans were to blame. His temperature grapfh completely deleted the Medieval Warm period and the Little Ice Age. But Baliunas and Soon and his colleagues refuted these claims in a now famous article from 2003:

RECONSTRUCTING CLIMATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES OF THE PAST 1000 YEARS: A REAPPRAISAL

Part of the conclusion goes like this:

“After examining more than 240 individual proxy records analyzed by nearly 1000 researchers, we concluded that taken individually, proxy records offer strong support for the widespread existence of both a Medieval Warm Period (~A.D. 800 to 1300) and a Little Ice Age (~A.D. 1400 to 1850), undermining Mann’s conclusion that the climate of the 20th Century was unusual when compared to the variability over the last millennium. (Proxy records are secondary or inferred sources from which assumptions about air temperature may be drawn).” Find the full .pdf article here.

You can read more of the work of Sallie Baliunas here.

You can watch a clips with Sallie Baliunas here and here

John R Christy

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:11:10 +0000

John Christy, Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth. System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

In 1989 Christy and Dr. Roy W. Spencer, a NASA/Marshall scientist, developed a global temperature data set from microwave data observed from satellites beginning in 1979. For this achievement, the Spencer-Christy team was awarded NASA’s Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement in 1991. In 1996, they were selected to receive a Special Award by the American Meteorological Society “for developing a global, precise record of earth’s temperature from operational polar-orbiting satellites, fundamentally advancing our ability to monitor climate.
John Christyhas published many articles including studies appearing in Science, Nature, Journal of Climate and The Journal of Geophysical Research. Dr. Christy has provided testimony to several congressional committees.

Christy is a strong critic of scientists who make catastrophic predictions of huge increases in global temperatures and tremendous rises in sea levels.

You can read Professor Christies latest testimony here.

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Urban Heat Island Effect

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:19:11 +0000

UHI is strongly biasing the surface temperature records. Human development in rural areas and city districts influence the temperature records by up to several degrees Celsius. As demonstrated in this clip, Professor John Christy from the University of Huntsville Alabama recommend that we pay more attention to satellite and balloon measurements. Because temperature changes in the bulk of the atmosphere(the troposphere) is most important in relation to any possible greenhouse effect.

Nir Shaviv

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:23:53 +0000

Prof. Nir Shaviv is a member of the Racah Insitute of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
His research interests cover a wide range of topics in astrophysics. Most are related to the application of fluid dynamics, radiation transfer or high energy physics to a wide range of objects – from stars and compact objects to galaxies and the early universe.
His studies on the possible relationships between cosmic ray intensity and the Earth’s climate, and the Milky Way’s Spiral Arms and Ice Age Epochs on Earth were widely echoed in the scientific literature. They are also described at length in the documentary The Cloud Mystery.

Nir Shavivs Home page: At the Hebrew University
Nir Shavivs Personal blog: ScienceBits.com

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Henrik Svensmark

admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:05:55 +0000

Professor Henrik Svensmark is the head of the Centre for Sun-Climate Research, at DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark.

Since 1997, Svensmark spearheaded the idea that solar activity variations affect climate on Earth, through solar activity modulating of the cosmic rays reaching the Earth and the effect that these particles have on cloud cover. This idea received a significant boost with the SKY experiment that he headed, which showed under laboratory conditions how the ionization caused by cosmic rays gives rise to the formation of condensation nuclei, a necessary step in the formation of clouds.

This idea is the main theme covered in the documentary The Cloud Mystery (this link includes more information about Svensmarks theory about Cosmoclimatology as well as links to other scientists involved in the research findings. The Cloud Mystery Dvd can be ordered online as well)

You can go to Svensmarks Home page at DTU SPACE.

Here is a brief and simple overview of Cosmoclimatology.