An Exploration Of Planetary Orbital Geometry (part 3)
Many appreciate the sun has an impact on climate but what about the planets? In this article I fashion a tin foil hat and peek at the inner planets
In part 2 of this series I took a look at the summed orbital phase of the four gas giants over the period 1850 – 2023 and we observed a wave pattern that started to resemble climate processes. Many readers reached for the effects of planetary mass, gravitational lensing and whatnot but what we need to be also mindful of is the electrical and magnetic nature of the solar system, starting with the heliocentric current sheet (a.k.a. interplanetary current sheet) as well as charge concentrations, electric fields and magnetic flux emanating from each heavenly body. A comet might be puny in mass compared to the sun but those with one eyeball on the electric universe model will have noted the startling phenomenon of the sun reacting to such a weedy body. Charge might be everything, and there are some rather interesting models for an electric sun that readers might go and seek for themselves since I’m rather new to this game.
In terms of understanding Earth’s extraordinarily complex climate the experts responsible for building and running the Earth systems models consumed by the IPCC under the framework of CMIP completely ignore anything to do with electrical and magnetic phenomena because the remit of IPCC was to concern itself with man-made factors, especially CO2 emissions. This means we lack understanding of basic stuff like thermal transfer from ocean to atmosphere and ignore the extraordinary impact of clouds. Neither do modellers consider the Earth as a semi-illumined globe with a water-laden atmosphere i.e. they’ve ignored night and day as well as the primary greenhouse gas. Instead they’ve concocted models based on a uniformly lit sphere surrounded by a dry atmosphere. Upon this rests the future of the developed world!
Up to recently modellers have also ignored the phenomenon of solar particle forcing, though attempts at introducing this were enshrined in CMIP6. Excited at the prospective of real science a colleague of mine contacted the project lead to be told that this “would not make any difference”. You see they’ve already gone and made-up their mind, though the truth is that their grant funding has made their mind-up for them whether they like it or not. Some readers may wonder what the heck I’m ranting on about so I shall summarise this by saying the ionised particle stream (solar wind) that blasts from the sun reacts energetically with our atmosphere and this may well have a knock-on effect for climate.
This is not as kooky as it sounds and there are many tasty papers waiting for those who seek understanding. One such paper that caught my eye recently is this one in the prestigious journal Nature, no less. Entitled Electricity consumption in Finland influenced by climate effects of energetic particle precipitation, in this study the authors demonstrate that geomagnetic activity, as a proxy of energetic particle precipitation, significantly influences Finland’s average temperature and total wintertime electricity consumption in Finland. Using energy consumption as a proxy for something as intangible as ‘climate’ is a rather clever idea, as is using geomagnetic activity as a proxy for solar particle forcing, and I shall be revealing results of my own preliminary work with the geomagnetic field as 2024 rolls along.