The SR Editor Mr. R. Marszalek retracted our paper Zharkova et al, 2019, SA, read it without stating the real reason – the Editor and AGW people object the suggestion of the paper that the Sun-Earth distance changes periodically over a long period time of 2100-2200 years. The AGW people claim that the S-E distance is the same at all times.

The retraction confirms that our paper was very innovative indeed, if the AGW people are so afraid of us telling to other people the truth about solar inertial motion and its effect on the Earth and other planets.

Author objections sent to the Editor

The authors’ objections to the paper retraction were not published on the SR site, in spite we have sent them these documents. So the author reply documents can be found here.

Cover up of the orbital solar forcing

This retraction remind us the medieval ages because, we believe, the SR Editor did the retraction on the not-so-well explained reasons because they try to cover up the important solar forcing input caused by Solar Inertial Motion (SIM) not considered by any temperature models ( read the new book chapter, item 1 above).

Hallstatt’s cycle (2100-2200 y) of Sun-Earth orbital motion

While the current Hallstatt’s cycle of 2100-2200 years, which started during Maunder Minimum and continues until 2600. This means that the Sun currently moves towards the Earth in January-July until 2600 because of solar inertial motion (see Appendix 1 in item 1 above).

This, in turn, will result in extra-heating by the Sun of Earth and other planets (see Appendix 2 in item 1 above) that can account to the main part of the observed increase of terrestrial and other planets temperatures.

See also the book chapter by Zharkova, 2021 which presents the official ephemeris on the Sun-Earth distances in 600-2600 here.

Comments of the AGW people to New Scientist article

This suggestion is confirmed by the publication in New Scientist where the only people who commented on this retraction were the AGW supporters: 1) G. Schmidt (NASA) and 2) K.Rice (Edinburg University) read it here