“Looking at the Sun” – Nexus Interview Climate Discussion CERES Co-Leader, Dr. Ronan Connolly – Interested in that?
Recently, Dr. John Robson of Climate Discussion Nexus (CDN) interviewed CERES co-leader, Dr. Ronan Connolly, about the Sun’s role in recent climate change.
CDN has now published their 20-minute “explanation” video that includes excerpts from this interview and discusses some of the recent CERES scientific research. Although the videos cover quite a few technical points, they are explained in a very clear and accessible way.
Topics covered include:
- Importance of debates between two main rival satellite estimates of solar activity trends since 1978, i.e. PMOD and ACRIM.
- Using PMOD or ACRIM to correct proto-satellite solar data can give very different estimates of how much solar activity has changed since the 19th century and earlier.
- Politics and how the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports underestimate the possible role of solar activity in recent climate change .
- The problem of urbanization bias of current thermometer-based estimates of global temperature trends since the 19th century.
The video mentions Connolly et al. (2021), i.e., recent scientific paper led by CERES:
R. Connolly, W. Soon, M. Connolly, S. Baliunas, J. Berglund, CJ Butler, RG Cionco, AG Elias, VM Fedorov, H. Harde, GW Henry, DV Hoyt, O. Humlum, DR Legates, S Luning, N. Scafetta, J.-E. Solheim, L. Szarka, H. van Loon, VM Velasco Herrera, RC Willson, H. Yan and W. Zhang (Year 2021). How much has the sun influenced temperature trends in the Northern Hemisphere? An ongoing debate. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics 21, 131. https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-4527/21/6/131 (pre-print pdf).
See here for our press release summary of Connolly et al. (In 2021)
Videos can be found on the CDN . website here and Youtube link embedded below:
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