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Miyake events are believed to be several orders of magnitude greater than the Carrington Event. It is not clear what causes the event. If a Miyake event equivalent to the one in the year 774 occurs now, it will lead to an...

Guest “Well, the largest yet identified,” by David Middleton NEWS RELEASE 9-OCT-2023 Researchers identify largest ever solar storm in ancient 14,300-year-old tree rings Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY...

[counting dancing angels on the head of a pin~cr] Peer-Reviewed Publication S.J. & JESSIE E. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF NATURAL RESOURCES, UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY Having a solid estimate of the amount…

If the persistence tendency is correctly taken into account, the current warming of Europe appears even more exceptional than previously assumed."

Public Release: 26-Dec-2018 Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. – Tree rings tell the story of what’s happening physiologically as fire suppression makes forests more dense and less tolerant of drought, pests...

From Eurekalert Public Release: 18-Dec-2018 Even forest trees growing in average conditions may decline in productivity as much as 75 percent University of Arizona A treasure trove of data about tree growth in the US West...

Canada's boreal forests may not suffer as much as other areas on Earth from climate change. Armed with climate data from as far back as 1960, scientists from Quebec and the United States scrutinized datasets of tree rings...

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Bemused by claims about connections between solar radiation, shipwrecks, and hurricanes in the pre-publication press release of a paywalled study highlighted by Anthony here on WUWT, I thought...

You’ll be shocked that after decades of studying 800 year old tree rings, someone has finally found some trees living as long ago as 2005. These rarest-of-rare tree rings have been difficult to find, compared to the...

The Satirical Times Mother Nature has issued a disguised voluntary recall notice for Arctic Treemometers. Sold as a way of measuring temperatures over the last two millennium, they turned out to fail frequently, even going...

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Over at Climate Audit, Steve McIntyre is engaged in the slow public defenestration of the latest multi-proxy extravapalooza, a gem of a paper yclept “Inter-hemispheric temperature variability...

To understand the world's changing climate, scientists often look to tree cores and ice samples. For a record of ocean pollutants, researchers are beginning to turn to whale ear wax. Since whales are unable to clean their...

To understand climate, scientists look to tree cores and ice samples. For a record of ocean pollutants, researchers are beginning to turn to whale ear wax. Since whales are unable to clean their ear canals, the wax builds...

From the University of Hawaii at Manoa: El Nino unusually active in the late 20th century Spawning droughts, floods, and other weather disturbances world-wide, the El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) impacts the daily...

A blockbuster Chinese study of Tibetan tree rings by Lui et al 2011 shows, with detail, that the modern era is a dog-standard normal climate when compared to the last 2,500 years...