Written by: Magazine Team on April 19, 2016.
© Foto: EITAN ABRAMOVICH - The image is found at msn.com and describes how it looks like on the North Pole nowadays.
In the Arctic we can see some extreme changes. E.g. in Alaska the temperature has been 7 degrees higher than normal and in the north Russia it was 5 degrees higher which is an alarming situation. The ice on the North Pole is melting faster and it covers smaller areas than before. The Arctic animals are negatively affected and that is a huge problem for their future existence.
The standard explanation is the global warming on the planet, which is caused by the human beings and their carbon emissions. The water level that is growing 3 millimeters per year is going to rise 1 centimeter per year if the problem continues. Low land countries like Denmark and Holland in Europe can get troubles with the higher water level. That is of course a huge problem.
2009: Sunspots and solar winds
According to an article written in 2009 at scientificamerican.com many climate scientists were agreed that sunspots and solar winds could be playing a role in climate change, but the vast majority viewed it as very minimal and attributed Earth’s warming primarily to emissions from industrial activity. They had thousands of peer-reviewed studies available to back up that claim.
Reading further in that article we can see that "ironically", the only way to really find out if sunspots and solar winds were playing a larger role in climate change than most scientists believed at that time would be to significantly reduce our carbon emissions.
2015: Carbon emissions
The image found at: dailymail.co.uk - The top graph shows the level of disagreement between the old Wolf Sunspot Number (blue) and the old Group Sunspot Number (red). The lower graph demonstrates the increase in similarity between the two after being recalibrated, and a leveling-out over centuries, showing no upward trend in solar activity.
In an article from dailymail.co.uk written in 2015 we can see another explanation and that is that the solar activity is not linked to the global warming. The article explains us that the theory that solar activity is linked to rising global temperatures has been cast into doubt after scientists corrected an ancient error in the calculations.
As we can se in the article mentioned above, the earlier general consensus was that solar activity - in particular sunspots - and temperatures have been trending upwards since the harsh winters of the 17th century when the spots were thought to have been at a low.
But when the error was corrected, the records show there was no such culmination in solar activity in the late 20th century, suggesting climate change cannot be plotted using this sunspots method.
However, our planet is not feeling good and the question is if and when in that case we will be able to save it.
(The sources of same parts of this content and the images are msn.com, scientificamerican.com and dailymail.co.uk . )
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Global climate change
The water level will rise 1 centimeter per year if the global climate change continues. Low land countries like Denmark and Holland can get troubles with the higher water level. Is it about the global warming or sunspots and solar winds? According to the reports from NASA we can see that the temperature on our planet is higher than before. The climate is changing and that means that our lives on the planet can be changed because of that. The average temperature on the planet has now become 1,35 degrees higher than in this month in the middle of the last century. Also in this last winter, during the period from December to February we have seen that the temperature has been 1,1 higher than in the last century.
© Foto: EITAN ABRAMOVICH - The image is found at msn.com and describes how it looks like on the North Pole nowadays.
In the Arctic we can see some extreme changes. E.g. in Alaska the temperature has been 7 degrees higher than normal and in the north Russia it was 5 degrees higher which is an alarming situation. The ice on the North Pole is melting faster and it covers smaller areas than before. The Arctic animals are negatively affected and that is a huge problem for their future existence.
The standard explanation is the global warming on the planet, which is caused by the human beings and their carbon emissions. The water level that is growing 3 millimeters per year is going to rise 1 centimeter per year if the problem continues. Low land countries like Denmark and Holland in Europe can get troubles with the higher water level. That is of course a huge problem.
2009: Sunspots and solar winds
According to an article written in 2009 at scientificamerican.com many climate scientists were agreed that sunspots and solar winds could be playing a role in climate change, but the vast majority viewed it as very minimal and attributed Earth’s warming primarily to emissions from industrial activity. They had thousands of peer-reviewed studies available to back up that claim.
Reading further in that article we can see that "ironically", the only way to really find out if sunspots and solar winds were playing a larger role in climate change than most scientists believed at that time would be to significantly reduce our carbon emissions.
2015: Carbon emissions
The image found at: dailymail.co.uk - The top graph shows the level of disagreement between the old Wolf Sunspot Number (blue) and the old Group Sunspot Number (red). The lower graph demonstrates the increase in similarity between the two after being recalibrated, and a leveling-out over centuries, showing no upward trend in solar activity.
In an article from dailymail.co.uk written in 2015 we can see another explanation and that is that the solar activity is not linked to the global warming. The article explains us that the theory that solar activity is linked to rising global temperatures has been cast into doubt after scientists corrected an ancient error in the calculations.
As we can se in the article mentioned above, the earlier general consensus was that solar activity - in particular sunspots - and temperatures have been trending upwards since the harsh winters of the 17th century when the spots were thought to have been at a low.
But when the error was corrected, the records show there was no such culmination in solar activity in the late 20th century, suggesting climate change cannot be plotted using this sunspots method.
However, our planet is not feeling good and the question is if and when in that case we will be able to save it.
(The sources of same parts of this content and the images are msn.com, scientificamerican.com and dailymail.co.uk . )Back to the to previous page
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