The story of the current weather - DL GR

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Sunspots – Six months - Daily

The Sun warms and cools over time

Thames Frost Fair, 1683-84, Maunder

Stripe Chart – 1850 to 2021

Stripe Chart – 21 to 2021

The current sunspot cycle is No. 25

CO2 and temperature to 2030

CO2 and temperature to Jan 2023

Hunga Tonga South Pacific location

Papua
New Guinea

Hunga Tonga Jan 15, 2022, eruption

The layers in the atmosphere

Locations: Tambora, Krakatoa, Hunga Tonga

The effect of El Niño

 Increased precipitation and temperature

 Heavy rains: Ecuador, Peru, California

 Droughts in Australia, Indonesia

 Severe weather in high latitudes:

 of North and South America

 Canada:  Mild winters and spring in West and Central Canada

 More severe weather

 Quebec’s 1998 ice storm: El Niño year

El Nino or Hunga Tonga to 2030?

Climate models vs. satellite temperatures

Comparison: UAH Satellite temperature with HADCRUT5 land based (red)

Heat Islands affect Earth’s temperature

Cherries in the Okanagan Valley in B.C.

 Earlier this year (2024), the area experienced a warmer-than-normal period in January.

 Following that period, there was a colderthan-normal period. The temperature dropped to -31oC. Fruit buds damaged.

 The temperature has been this cold before but not following a warming period.

 The same happened last year to peaches in Georgia, USA. Also, vineyards in B. C.

 We can expect more of the same.

Weather versus Climate

 Weather refers to short-term changes

 Climate: longer-term changes: 30 years

 Statistical average over 30 years

 Climate change is the variation of average

 El Niño and Volcanoes are short term

 The Sun: long-term temperature change

 Greenhouse gases: long term

 Are storms getting worse?

US Tornado damage, millions 2021 US$

Hurricane landfalls 1970-2018

Weather Disasters

You should know

 IPCC considers the Sun to have a negligible warming effect on the Earth.

 IPCC ignores the satellite temperatures

 Comment by Dr. Robert Davis who quit the IPCC: “Global temperatures have not been changing as state-of-the-art climate models predicted they would. Not a single mention of satellite temperature observations appears in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers.”

 You will run into these facts.

Conclusions

 The Sun impacts Earth’s temperature

 Long-term: solar maxima and minima, AMO

 Volcanic action and temperature:

 Directly: volcano emissions, ash, gases

 Indirectly: El Niño and La Niña

 Storms not worsening. No Climate crisis.

 98% fewer climate-related deaths

 Not yet considered: warming by greenhouse gases: H2O, CO2, CH4, N2O

 El Niño continues every 2 to 7 years

 Sun continues Grand Solar Minimum (GSM)

 Wobbly Polar Vortex continues

 Temperature falls:  As Hunga Tonga water dissipates  As El Niño fades and La Niña follows

As AMO enters its cold phase

Expect cooler temperatures for decades

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