The Frontier of Climate Science (Color Edition)

Nicola Scafetta

• Publisher: Youcanprint
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9791224067061
• Subtopic: Essays on Science
• Index: Biological Sciences

(Color Edition) The Frontier of Climate Science explores climate dynamics through physics, complex systems, and astronomy, synthesizing several decades of peer?reviewed research. The book critically reviews the scientific foundations of modern climate theory, the evolution of IPCC assessments, and the limits of global climate models (GCMs) when confronted with observations. It investigates natural variability across multiple timescales, including oceanic oscillations, solar variability, and astronomical cycles driving both solar and climate variability, integrating satellite data, paleoclimate reconstructions, and empirical modeling approaches. From this evidence emerges a balanced view of climate risk, favoring pragmatic adaptation over narrowly defined policy pathways such as Net Zero. Rich in insights and analytical approaches, the book helps readers understand climate variability, assess risks, think critically, and explore key open questions in climate science. Endorsed by the International Association for Gondwana Research (IAGR) and by CERI - Sapienza University of Rome. Forewords by M. Santosh, A. Prestininzi and J. Curry.

Table of contents

• Title
• Synopsis
• Contents
• Foreword by Prof. M. Santosh
• Foreword by Prof. Alberto Prestininzi
• Foreword by Prof. Judith Curry
• Introduction
• Part 1 — Climate Science According to the “Scientific Consensus”
• Chapter 1. Understanding climate change in order to act
• Chapter 2. The climate issue as a global challenge
• Chapter 3. The IPCC and the Global Climate Models
• Chapter 4. Earth’s energy balance and the greenhouse effect
• Chapter 5. Evolution of the IPCC reports from 1990 to 2023
• Chapter 6. Results of the Global Climate Models
• Chapter 7. Concluding remarks on IPCC attribution frameworks
• Part 2 — Critical Perspectives on the Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory
• Chapter 8. Science and pseudo-science: preserving the boundary
• Chapter 9. The rhetoric of scientific “consensus” in the climate debate
• Chapter 10. The impossibility of validating the primary GCM prediction
• Chapter 11. The “hot model” problem
• Chapter 12. The 50–70-year oscillation and its implications
• Chapter 13. The “Roman Optimum” and the “Medieval Warm Period”
• Chapter 14. The Holocene and Phanerozoic temperature–CO₂ conundrum
• Chapter 15. Assessment of GCMs and the social cost of carbon
• Part 3 — New Perspectives for Quantifying Climate Change
• Chapter 16. Uncertainty in global surface temperature records
• Chapter 17. The “urban heat island” (UHI) effect
• Chapter 18. Dendrochronological, satellite and instrumental data
• Chapter 19. Contamination in homogenizing meteorological data
• Chapter 20. Nighttime temperatures rising faster than daytime
• Chapter 21. The 2000–2014 temperature “pause” controversy
• Chapter 22. Assessing non-climatic systematic biases in global warming
• Part 4 — Rethinking Climate Attribution: The Solar Perspective
• Chapter 23. The changing Sun and Earth’s climate
• Chapter 24. TSI satellite composites: a controversy spanning four decades
• Chapter 25. TSI proxy models: between uncertainty and revision
• Chapter 26. Particle-driven climate forcing modulated by solar variability
• Part 5 — Modeling Climate Change with Empirical Models
• Chapter 27. From reductionist models to empirical–holistic frameworks
• Chapter 28. Climate attribution using multilinear regression
• Chapter 29. Model selection and empirical optimization
• Chapter 30. Modeling climate with astronomical harmonics
• Chapter 31. An energy balance–regression climate model
• Part 6 — Spectral Coherence Between Planetary Harmonics and Solar–Climate Cycles
• Chapter 32. Cosmic timing and Earth’s climate cycles
• Chapter 33. Orbital synchronization and planetary cycles
• Chapter 34. Solar cycles shorter than the Schwabe 11–year cycle
• Chapter 35. The Schwabe solar cycle and the Venus–Earth–Jupiter model
• Chapter 36. The Jupiter–Saturn model and long-term solar variability
• Chapter 37. The stable harmonics of the Solar System
• Chapter 38. How the planets could influence the Sun
• Chapter 39. Heliospheric oscillations in climate records
• Chapter 40. A two-millennial climate reconstruction based on astronomical rhythms
• Part 7 — Toward a New Paradigm
• Chapter 41. Science as a process, not dogma
• Chapter 42. Toward the planetary hypothesis
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgments
• The author