tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142988674703954802.post2313973105307352708..comments2024-03-11T04:54:26.827-07:00Comments on THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: The Time-Integral of Solar Activity explains Global Temperatures 1610-2012, not CO2Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142988674703954802.post-73117644285019855542014-04-12T00:24:53.471-07:002014-04-12T00:24:53.471-07:00I am an electrical engineer (M.Sc.) with a fair or...I am an electrical engineer (M.Sc.) with a fair or good understanding of thermodynamics as I have been working as a consulting engineer mainly for the geothermal industry during four decades. I have also been a lecturer in control theory (Katsuhiko Ogata) in the local university, and therefore have a fair or good understanding of mathematical modelling of physical systems. For a long time I have been interested in the Sun-Climate connection...<br /><br />After this introduction I would like to thank Dan Pangburn for this article. There are now several months since I first read an older version and immediately became interested. To use the time integral is of course the correct way of estimating the effects of changes in solar activity on Earth's temperature.<br /><br /><br />Agust Bjarnasonhttp://agbjarn.blog.is/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142988674703954802.post-2869457402944418252014-04-08T00:33:11.014-07:002014-04-08T00:33:11.014-07:00Anyone wishing to pursue this further should read ...Anyone wishing to pursue this further should read The Chilling Stars by Svensmark and Calder. <br /><br />The book explains both the theory of cosmoclimatology and the experiments done to determine the effects of cosmic particles on cloud formation--a negative feed-back mechanism. The main idea is that the Earth's lower atmosphere acts like a Wilson Chamber (can be Googled). <br /><br />The Wilson Chamber is something they demonstrated to us in our first physics course at the University of Toronto in 1952. The Wilson Chamber was invented in 1911 and used to detect cosmic particles a couple of decades later. Looking down into the Chamber you can see the tracks of cosmic particles whizzing through leaving their vapour trails in the super-saturated gas within the Chamber. <br /><br />Cosmic particles form condensation nuclei in the lower atmosphere, the basis for formation of strato-cumulus clouds that reflect back into space some portion of solar energy, and in this way modulate the climate, mainly by negative feeback.Frank Waltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17403044995764984391noreply@blogger.com