Category: sun and climate change

Nature has a poser of a paper in this week's issue. It's like discovering that when one's strips the ice from the Arctic, the polar bears actually LOVE it. The gist is that when three researchers at Imperial College London and one at the University of Colorado, each an esteemed place in the climate change game, went to document the cooling effect on Earth's surface rendered by the recent low in solar output (and in sunspots and storms), their presumptions hit a brick wall. Data said the result was the opposite. The London team leader told the UK Guardian's Damian Carrington...