Record heat despite a cold sun – Discussion
By Sebastian Luening, Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt Introduction On 14th November 2016 Stefan Rahmstorf (“stefan”) of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) published on the climate blog Realclimate an article entitled „Record heat despite a cold sun”. In this article he discusses a temperature prognosis which we first published 2012 in the book “Die kalte Sonne”. An English translation of the book came out 2013 under the title “The Neglected Sun”. In his blog post, Stefan Rahmstorf attempts to demonstrate that the solar development does not match with the temperature evolution and hence has only a negligible …