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originally posted by: Cymru
a reply to: ICycle2
Fixed it
I watched the video and heard Zharkova talk about the Maunder minimum, but at least in the interview she didn't explain the 400 year cycle or why she was talking about the Maunder minimum. While on that topic, her observations are correct that a temperature decrease was observed in Europe during that time, but the leading hypothesis is that volcanic activity was likely to play a major role, so she may be overstating the effects of sunspots on Earth temperatures if she's not taking volcanic activity into account and she didn't mention it.
originally posted by: ICycle2
So I wrote this thread to introduce this video to ATS’ers but the link disappeared shortly after I watched the video.
400 year cycle
The video does not allow me to embed it but the link below takes me there
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The Editors have retracted this Article.
After publication, concerns were raised regarding the interpretation of how the Earth-Sun distance changes over time and that some of the assumptions on which analyses presented in the Article are based are incorrect.
The analyses presented in the section entitled “Effects of SIM on a temperature in the terrestrial hemispheres” are based on the assumption that the orbits of the Earth and the Sun about the Solar System barycenter are uncorrelated, so that the Earth-Sun distance changes by an amount comparable to the Sun-barycenter distance. Post-publication peer review has shown that this assumption is inaccurate because the motions of the Earth and the Sun are primarily due to Jupiter and the other giant planets, which accelerate the Earth and the Sun in nearly the same direction, and thereby generate highly-correlated motions in the Earth and Sun. Current ephemeris calculations [1,2] show that the Earth-Sun distance varies over a timescale of a few centuries by substantially less than the amount reported in this article. As a result the Editors no longer have confidence in the conclusions presented.
S. I. Zharkov agrees with the retraction. V. V. Zharkova, E. Popova, and S. J. Shepherd disagree with the retraction.