What Ancient "gods" Control Earth's Weather? - Granite Grok

What Ancient “gods” Control Earth’s Weather?

Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, UranusSince at least the 5th century BC observers have suggested that sunspots affect Earth’s climate. In the centuries since then the observations have become more concise and the correlations more exact, not just about how solar cycles effect Earth’s weather but what drives the solar cycles themselves.

New research suggests a very strong correlation between solar cycles (and sun spots) and the influence of the gas giants Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus. Named after ancient gods, it appears that their combined presence drives the solar cycles that play such an important part in our weather.

Did you hear the one about the three Romans and a Greek that wander into a solar system?

(WUWT) Ed Fix’s model explains why, for extended periods, successive increases in solar cycle amplitude are seen before the system gets out of phase and phase destruction occurs. Individual Hale cycles are not discrete magnetic events. The quantum of flux preserved in the system is the basis for the amplitude of the following cycle. Thus the sunspot cycle memory effect is explained.

The model also explains the Waldemeir effect – that strong cycles reach a maximum of amplitude in the shortest period of time. It also explains the amplitude-period effect (the anti-correlation between the peak amplitude of a cycle and the length of the preceding cycle) and the amplitude-minimum effect (the correlation between cycle amplitude and the activity level at the previous minimum). Ed Fix’s model hindcasts almost perfectly and that very close match, despite the model’s simplicity, suggests that a lot of confidence could be placed in what it is predicting.

The correlations are fascinating, as is the fact that individually these planets do not wield the kind of influence that they do together.

It turns out that the interaction of Jupiter and Saturn causes most of the solar cycle. The effect on the Sun of these two planets is synergistic rather than additive as shown by Figure 3. It has been said that mathematics is the language of physics. What has been elucidated by this paper is the mathematical basis of the solar cycle.

Saturn and Jupiter and Solar Cycles

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