Scafetta’s Solar-lunar Cycle Forecast -vs- Global Temperature

Interesting paper and blog (DYODD):

In my recent publications I proposed an harmonic model of the global temperature made of four major decadal and multidecadal cycles (period 9.1, 10.4, 20 and 60 years), which are approximately consistent with four major solar/lunar/astronomical cycles, plus a corrected anthropogenic net warming contribution.

This was also published on WUWT here: Scafetta on his latest paper: Harmonic climate model versus the IPCC general circulation climate models

The model was able not only to reconstruct the decadal patterns of the temperature since 1850 better than any general circulation model (GCM) adopted by the IPCC in 2007, but it is apparently able to better forecast the temperature decadal/multidecadal pattern observed since 2000. Note that since 2000 my proposed model is a full forecast.

However, will the forecast hold, or my proposed model is just another failed attempt to forecast climate change at least roughly? Time will tell.

The original published temperature record is in red, while the updated version is in blue. The black curve is the proposed harmonic component plus the proposed corrected anthropogenic warming trend. The figure shows in yellow the harmonic component alone made of the four cycles, which may be interpreted as a lower boundary limit for the natural variability. The green area represents the range of the IPCC 2007 GCM projections.

Comment: the astronomical/harmonic model forecast since 2000 looks in good agreement with the data up to now, while the IPCC model projection has failed to predict steady temperature observed since 2000.

[1] Nicola Scafetta, Testing an astronomically based decadal-scale empirical harmonic climate model versus the IPCC (2007) general circulation climate models. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, (2012). DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2011.12.005

[2] Adriano Mazzarella and Nicola Scafetta, Evidences for a quasi 60-year North Atlantic Oscillation since 1700 and its meaning for global climate change. Theor. Appl. Climatol. (2011). DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0499-4

[3] Craig Loehle and Nicola Scafetta, Climate Change Attribution Using Empirical Decomposition of Climatic Data. The Open Atmospheric Science Journal 5, 74-86 (2011). DOI: 10.2174/1874282301105010074

[4] Nicola Scafetta, A shared frequency set between the historical mid- latitude aurora records and the global surface temperature. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 74, 145-163 (2012). DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2011.10.013

[5] Nicola Scafetta, Empirical evidence for a celestial origin of the climate oscillations and its implications. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar- Terrestrial Physics 72, 951970 (2010). DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2010.04.015

Craig Venter, are you awake?