Winter and spring colder than usual? The NY Daily News, among others, thinks so: The Daily News has no clue as to why this is happening. But those who have read Henri Svensmark and Nigel Calder’s The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change or good summaries do. The solar wind — plasma flares from […]
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The revolution in climate science you probably haven’t heard of
In 1801, British astronomer William Herschel noticed that wheat was scarce and prices were high when sunspots were minimal, and conversely wheat was abundant and prices low when sunspots were plentiful. Similar observations to Herschel’s were made in 1871 by British economist William Stanley Jevons — and many others in the preceding and ensuing years. Herschel, […]