Monthly Archives: June 2024

Reflections on K-12 science education

by Judith Curry

Today I’m participating in a panel on K-12 education, hosted by the National Association of Scholars.

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How we know the sun changes the climate. III: Theories

By Javier VinĂ³s

Part I in this series on the Sun and climate described how we know that the Sun has been responsible for some of the major climate changes that have occurred over the past 11,000 years. In Part II, we considered a range of changes that the Sun is causing in the climate today, including changes in the planet’s rotation and in the polar vortex that are changing the frequency of cold winters.

None of the evidence for the Sun’s effect on climate we reviewed is included in the IPCC reports. The role of the IPCC is to assess the risk of human-induced climate change, not to find the causes of climate change, which since its inception has been assumed to be due to our emissions.

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