{"id":360805,"date":"2025-01-07T08:38:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T07:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=360805"},"modified":"2025-01-07T08:38:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T07:38:32","slug":"unsettled-science-how-suns-fluxes-affect-our-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=360805","title":{"rendered":"Unsettled Science: How Sun\u2019s Fluxes Affect Our\u00a0Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Science Matters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ron Clutz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John Green writes at American Thinker Why are we studying the sun, if the science is settled?<\/strong><\/a> Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NASA\u2019s Parker solar probe just completed<\/strong> one of its primary multi-year mission objectives, with the closest ever approach to the Sun<\/strong>. On Christmas Eve, the probe flew through the Sun\u2019s corona at a blistering (literally and figuratively) 430,000 mph.<\/strong> For aircraft buffs, that\u2019s Mach 560 \u2014 fast enough to circle the earth in about 3 minutes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NASA\u2019s Closest Approach to the Sun\u2019s Fiery Surface Achieved by Parker Probe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A faint signal from Parker indicates that it survived<\/strong> its scorching flyby, and scientists are expecting it to download a treasure trove of data later this month. It turns out there\u2019s a lot the guys with the PhDs don\u2019t understand about the sun. As NASA states<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The NASA Parker Solar Probe mission is a mission designed to help humanity better understand the Sun<\/strong>, where changing conditions can propagate out into the solar system, affecting Earth and other worlds.<\/strong> As such, the primary goals are to examine the acceleration of solar wind through the movement of heat and energy in the Sun\u2019s corona in addition to study solar energetic particles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re hoping data collected<\/strong> while flying through the Sun\u2019s corona will provide a few answers and make it a bit more predictable.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I confess I\u2019m just a lowly engineer, and many of the mysteries they\u2019re trying to unravel are well beyond my college physics courses. But reading about the Parker probe got me wondering: Doesn\u2019t the Sun have something to do with our weather?<\/strong> I mean it\u2019s warm on sunny days, and plants grow better when the earth\u2019s surface is the closest to the Sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those observations may sound obtuse, but they\u2019re no more obtuse than \u201cexperts\u201d saying that \u201cclimate science is settled\u201d \u2014 when they don\u2019t understand how the freaking Sun works!<\/strong> (Looking at you \u201cScience Guy\u201d Bill Nye.)<\/p>\n\n\n

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The science can only be settled when the smart guys understand all the factors that affect our climate \u2014 and how they interact \u2014 well enough to predict outcomes. The Sun imparts about 342 watts of energy on every square meter<\/strong> of the earth\u2019s surface (according to NASA<\/a>). That\u2019s the equivalent of 44 million average electric power plants<\/strong> (700 times what the world has<\/a>) \u2014 yet we don\u2019t understand its fluctuations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s a rather big unpredictable factor for this supposedly \u201csettled science\u201d \u2014 no?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One can only conclude that\u00a0when highly educated people<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 who should know better \u2014\u00a0claim climate science is settled, they\u2019re lying.<\/strong>\u00a0Perhaps that\u2019s why multiple predictions that the polar bears would be extinct, and New York would be underwater by now have all been wrong. It might also explain why the greenies avoid discussion of ice ages and\u00a0interglacial periods<\/a>\u00a0when assuring us that our cars are delivering planetary doom \u2013 while their private jets are perfectly fine.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Given what little we know about the Sun, the anthropogenic climate change \u201cexperts\u201d are either:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ignorant men, succumbing to irrational fears \u2014 placing superstition above science, or
Evil men \u2014 profiting by scaring us into irrational behavior.
We should keep that in mind when they insist that we halt progress, live in destitution, and scare our children that apocalypse is imminent. Our only rational response is to ignore them \u2026 and cut off their funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, IPCC, Our Climate Responds to Our Sun<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

John Gideon Hartnett writes at Spectator Australia The sun is in control of our oceans.<\/strong> <\/a>Text is from John Ray at his blog, excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, there has been observed<\/strong> an increase in ocean temperature<\/strong>. Those who adhere to the Climate Change version<\/strong> of events say that the oceans are getting warmer because of trapped carbon dioxide (CO2)<\/strong> in the atmosphere causing a massive greenhouse effect leading to boiling oceans.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, anyone who has a brain knows that the oceans are not boiling, but let\u2019s assume that is just hyperbole.<\/strong> When actual research \u2013 when actual measurements were taken \u2013 reality<\/strong> turns out to be the exact opposite.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New research shows that the temperature of our oceans are controlled by incident radiation from the Sun.<\/strong> Who would have guessed?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as a consequence<\/strong> of the oceans warming, dissolved carbon dioxide gas is released<\/strong> due to reduced is solubility in ocean water. This means the warming of the oceans would lead (or cause<\/strong>) an increase in CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.  <\/strong>One of the researchers in the study wrote on X.com:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A decrease in cloud cover and albedo means more short wavelength (SW) solar radiation reaches the oceans. Albedo is the reflectivity of the Earth.\u00a0Lower albedo means more sunlight reaching the land and oceans and more warming by the Sun.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 8. Comparison between observed global temperature anomalies and CERES-reported changes in the Earth\u2019s absorbed solar flux. The two data series representing 13-month running means are highly correlated with the absorbed SW flux explaining 78% of the temperature variation (R2 = 0.78). The global temperature lags the absorbed solar radiation between 0 and 9 months, which indicates that climate change in the 21st Century was driven by solar forcing.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I mean to say that this is so obvious. The Sun heats Earth\u2019s surface of which 71% is covered by the oceans! Basic physics!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The energy from the Sun powers all life on the planet and causes all Earth changes. Every second, the Earth receives the equivalent energy of 42 megatons of TNT in radiation from the Sun. That cannot be ignored. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate Change, the ideological movement which I prefer to call a cult, views all evidence through the lens of their religious belief that the Earth is warmed by human activity.<\/strong> That activity releases carbon dioxide gas, which has been observed to be increasing. Their belief is that CO2 traps heat<\/strong> in a giant greenhouse effect. That is the dogma anyway. And I must add, we all are the carbon they want to eliminate.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But how much of that observed increase in CO2 is actually from natural causes<\/strong> and not from human activity? At least 94 per cent is. This new evidence now suggests it could be even more than that.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the oceans emit CO2 gas following changes in the water temperature, which this research shows is due to the amount (flux) of solar radiation reaching the surface, then more CO2 comes from natural causes.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is basic physics<\/strong> that as you heat water the dissolved gases are released due to a decrease in gas solubility.<\/strong> This means as the solar flux increases CO2 gas is released from the warmer ocean water.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus an ocean temperature increase leads to an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere, and not the other way around.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Space weather impacts the ionosphere in this animation. Credits: NASA\/GSFC\/CIL\/Krystofer Kim<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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NASA\u2019s Parker solar probe just completed\u00a0one of its primary multi-year mission objectives, with\u00a0the closest ever approach to the Sun. 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