In the first of a new series of blog posts, I recall my early days and the circumstances that gave me a passion for radio — beginning with the pirate stations of the 1960s … On Monday the 14th of August 1967, at just after three o’clock in the afternoon, I sat alone in my [...]
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Sunspots Still Elusive
I last wrote about the lack of sunspots in September 2008. Now, seven months later here in April 2009, even NASA is raising a quizzical eyebrow as it releases a press release discussing what it describes as a very deep solar minimum. Despite the press release being dated 1st April, this is no April Fool. [...]
Still No Sunspots
The current Solar Cycle — an indicator of the sun’s magnetic activity, which in turn is believed to influence our planet’s climate — is confounding astronomers by resolutely refusing to conform to predictions. There should be increasing numbers of sunspots blemishing the sun’s surface by now, but there are none. What does this trend indicate [...]
A Sunny Outlook?
Once again, the Sun’s influence on the current state of our climate has been called into question, with the link between incoming cosmic rays and global warming being refuted. Meanwhile, Solar Cycle 24 has got off to a grindingly slow start. Where have all the sunspots gone? Back in June 2007, I wrote about some [...]
There Goes The Sun
China’s coldest winter in 100 years, Baghdad’s first snow in recorded history, North America has the most snow cover in 50 years. Record cold in Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile … in the past 12 months, global temperatures have dropped so dramatically that a century of warming has been reversed. Why? [...]
Being Economical With The Truth
Is there no such thing as human-induced climate change? Is it all just a natural blip? The Telegraph‘s Christopher Booker seems to think so. Meanwhile, the Unknown Country web site has put solar radiation back in the frame as a candidate for climate disruption — but have they each arrived at these differing positions by [...]
Climate Change: Sunspots? Or Us?
In my recent post called The UK Floods I mentioned some research work that seemed to point to sunspot activity and cosmic rays as being responsible in some measure for changes in climate. Now a BBC News item refutes that theory and places the blame for climate change firmly back on human activity. And while [...]
The UK Floods
This was never intended to be a “techy” blog, though my last few posts do seem to have taken me in that direction, which shows how easy it is for me to get side-tracked by the wunnerful world of Web 2.0. Well, other much more important things have been happening in the world outside my [...]
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