One thought, though – Swanson and Tsonis point out that any system that has high internal variability will also be highly susceptible to external variables as well. This is a fundamental property of feedbacks that is difficult to explain, but I’m going to give it a shot one of these days. As an EE and someone who has done control systems, understanding feedback analysis is a requirement of my job. The trick is explaining it clearly in a simple way that doesn’t require 2-3 years of college level mathematics. It’s one of my longer-term projects.

Aim High Plan for Factory Mass Produced Liquid Flouride Reactors

Apparently he may have discovered the causes of the PDO and ADO. His climate model explains the past 400 years of temperature including the periods where the IPCC models fail.

NCEE Events: by Climate Science Seminar: Climate Change and Its Causes: A Discussion about Some Key Issues

Here is the description:
Description of Event: A comparison of past and recent studies suggests that the problem of climate change is complex, as it is evident. Several key issues remain open and their solution may drastically change our understanding of the phenomenon. The crucial issue is: how is it possible to address a problem such a climate change where several crucial physical ingredients are still severely uncertain? In particular, some of the key issues he will address are: a) Did the total solar activity remain constant (as the IPCC and PMOD claim) or increase (as ACRIM claims) since 1980? b) Was the preindustrial temperature almost constant (The Hockey Stick graph) or did it experience a large change? c) What is the contribution of the GHG forcing on climate change, was it overestimated in some important past publications and might this have contributed to shape and bias the following debate? It is evident that solving the above issues in one way or in another is crucial for correctly interpreting climate change. He will propose a solution based on minimal physical assumptions that appear to have been confirmed by a large scientific empirical and theoretical literature. This solution suggests that a significant portion of climate change is natural and linked to changes of solar activity. He will also address the puzzling possibility that climate change might be partially driven by an additional natural forcing different from the radiative one that has not been identified yet. Finally, he will use these findings to attempt a climate prediction about the 21st century and discuss the possibility of an imminent global cooling.

Dr. Scafetta is a research scientist in the Department of Physics at Duke. He has about 40 papers in peer reviewed journals and two books in preparation.

You may also be interested in this other seminar by Dr Lindzen of MIT also given at the EPA. Yes I know climate change alarmists don’t like Dr. Lindzen very much but he has some good points in this video seminar (unrelated to the video above)

NCEE Events: by Climate Science Seminar: Global Warming: What Is It All About?

Interesting but the important seminar I hope people see is the one above by Dr. Scafetta. Anyone have any thoughts on it?

Thanks again, Brian, for your efforts on behalf of the our unplanned planet.