Climate 
Change vs
Elephant in the Room
(Sunshine hours in Stockholm City, Sweden)
It is our sun which is the main driver of Climate - like it has always been and always will be. It is really kind of funny, how LITTLE the sun is spoken of in the excessive plethora in the discussions revolving Climate Change.
Yesterday, i was looking more into the sunshine hour data coming from the Swedish Weather Service SMHI. They've got a data chart which registered sunshine hours
down to the seconds since year 1983. Unfortunately they do not provide any interface, where you can ask "how many hours did the sun shine for a certain period of time". Instead you get a data chart, which for every line in MS Excel / Apple's Numbers, represent 1 hour, showing amount of seconds the sun was shining. More bulky it can't get - because you end up getting 370.000 rows with data counted in seconds. So, now what ?
Well, I haven no knowledge of databases or how to handle or shuffle them around effectively in order to make nice graphs, per day, month, season, year. So, i gather the data manually, and write them manually into a new chart.
It will likely take weeks.
A lot of extra sunshine hours since 1983
But one thing struck me after a couple of hours: How much the sunshine hours have increased annually since 1983, in the city of Stockholm. All that extra energy, added on top... does surely explain why it has gotten warmer in our region of the world. But why is nobody addressing the elephant in the room:
our SUN being the main driver (in tandem with cloudiness) affecting our climate and weather.
Below you can see the annual amount of sunshine hours registered in the City of Stockholm. Notice the pronounced increase over time. If the mid 80s, showed a total of around 1550 hours, it shows that since the mid 90s, the total has increased to 1800-2000 hours annually - which coincidences with time when we were in a stronger warming period (90s).
The second graph shows the average Global radiation over Sweden (8 stations put together). Again - the energy has increased, by roughly 20-25%. That IS energy, and it IS making things warmer. Of course it does.
When you increase the energy in the oven, it get's hotter. How can something so obvious being forgotten and put under the carpet ? Instead, it is blamed on everything else instead - just not the main source of energy, which primarily always has influenced earth for a long time.
Annual global radiation • Accumulated global radiation for the whole is since 1983 for eight stations in Sweden. The black curve shows a smoothed trend roughly corresponding to a ten-year running average. (1983 - 2018)
Sunshine Year of 2022
Stockholm
Speaking of many sunshine hours; Notice that as of 23 Oct 2022, the total amount of sunshine has already reached a whopping
2076 hours [
green dot in the first chart] - yet we have still 2 months to go... On top, the average sunshine hours per day, have been higher in October 2022, compared to September 2022. 5.03 hours vs 4.57 hours.
I find that remarkable, because October is quite often already a gloomy month. The other day I said to my husband "Haven't you noticed how often the sun has been shining lately ?" This was actually the thought which brought me to SMHI's database and dealing with the numbers-based-in-seconds, wanting to know more about it by looking at things graphically; how things looks like on a (daily), monthly and annual basis, in order to be able to compare.
As of now, I have only ready data from 1983, and 2022. The rest I am working on.
(Average) Ø Daily sunshine in 1983 vs 2022
Stockholm
Look at the remarkable difference between the year of 1983 in Stockholm, vs the ongoing year of 2022, when comparing the daily average sunshine hours each month... As of now, we are at 5 hours sunshine per day in Oct 2022 - which is more compared to Sep 2022. But already back in March 2022, the amount sprung up to almost 9 hours per day. That's plenty more energy input we have today, when compared to the poor cloudy 80s.
So, what has that to do with.... uhm... blaming CO2 for "Climate Change" ?!
Nothing. Only that things actually grow much better, the vegetation gets more resistant, as well needs less water; the more CO2 is present the atmosphere. Creating a war against CO2, is in essence striding a war against life itself (!) Which unfortunately sounds familiar, given at how many other levels we are seeing similar principles being deliberately unfolded.
! It has been almost as sunny as September 2022 (which was a bit on the poor side).
