Nicola Scafetta is a research scientist and at the University of Napoli Federico II.
15 Facts About Nicola Scafetta
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Nicola Scafetta was formerly at the ACRIM Lab group and an adjunct assistant professor in the physics department at Duke University.
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Nicola Scafetta is notable for having controversial views on climate change.
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Nicola Scafetta received a Laurea in physics from the University of Pisa in 1997 and a Ph.
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Nicola Scafetta has been a visiting lecturer at Elon University and the University of North Carolina.
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Nicola Scafetta was a research associate at the ACRIM Lab group and an adjunct assistant professor in the physics department at Duke University for a few years after 2010.
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Nicola Scafetta is currently affiliated with the University of Napoli Federico II in Naples, Italy.
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Nicola Scafetta is a member of the American Physical Society, American Geophysical Union and the American Association of Physics Teachers.
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Nicola Scafetta argues that the total solar irradiance measurements gathered by satellites since 1978 are flawed because the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster prevented the timely launching of the ACRIM 2 satellite, which he worked on, to replace ACRIM 1.
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Some ACRIM investigators, including principal investigator Richard Willson and Nicola Scafetta, disagree and argue for a significant upward trend in average solar luminosity during the two-year data-gap in the ACRIM time series.
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Nicola Scafetta developed "Diffusion Entropy Analysis", a method of statistical analysis which distinguishes between Levy Walk noises and Fractional Brownian motion in complex systems.
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Nicola Scafetta used this method in a 2002 analysis of teen pregnancy.
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In 2009, Nicola Scafetta faced criticism for failing to disclose the computer code required to reproduce his research.
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In 2020, Nicola Scafetta proposed a 60-year cycle in the amount of interplanetary dust entering Earth's atmosphere, modulated by variations in the orbit of Jupiter's eccentricity, as causing variations in the relative abundance of cloud cover and thus being a driver of climate change by affecting variations in albedo.
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In 2022, Nicola Scafetta wrote a paper claiming that equilibrium climate sensitivity was significantly lower than what Coupled Model Intercomparison Project predict.