Earth's Heat Source - The Sun

Oliver K. Manuel
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Oliver K. Manuel: Emeritus Professor, Space and Nuclear Studies, University of Missouri, Rolla, MO 65401, Associate, Climate & Solar Science Institute, 625 Broadway, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701

Energy & Environment, 2009, vol. 20, issue 1, 131-144

Abstract: The Sun encompasses planet Earth, supplies the heat that warms it, and even shakes it. The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assumed that solar influence on Earth's climate is limited to changes in solar irradiance and adopted the consensus opinion of a hydrogen-filled Sun – the Standard Solar Model (SSM). They did not consider the alternative solar model and instead adopted another consensus opinion: Anthropogenic greenhouse gases play a dominant role in climate change. The SSM fails to explain the solar wind, solar cycles, and the empirical link of solar surface activity with Earth's changing climate. The alternative solar model-molded from an embarrassingly large number of unexpected observations that space-age measurements revealed since 1959-explains not only these puzzles but also how closely linked interactions between the Sun and its planets and other celestial bodies induce turbulent cycles of secondary solar characteristics that significantly affect Earth's climate.

Keywords: Earth's Climate; Earth-Sun Connection; IPCC Policies; IPCC Procedures; Solar Inertial Motion; Solar Orbit; Solar System Center of Mass; Solar Density; Core of Sun; Neutron Repulsion; Solar Composition; Origin of Solar System; Solar Luminosity; Solar Interior; Mass Fractionation; Iron Sun (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1260/095830509787689178

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