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By Kenneth Richard on 27. March 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterThe governmental need to portray elevated CO2 as dangerous to humans was recently pitted against the governmental need to require face masks be worn on healthy people. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic requiring healthy people of all ages to wear face masks in public settings became a common governmental policy […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Pandemic |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. March 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterSince the early 1990s the conventional assumption, aligned with modeling, has been that a molecule of human CO2 emission stays in the atmosphere – its residence time – for centuries. This fits the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) narrative. But empirical evidence contradicts these model-based assumptions. Residence time is closer to 5-10 years. […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Models |
By Kenneth Richard on 21. March 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterThe observed incapacity for southern elephant seals (SES) to withstand late 20th and early 21st century extreme cold and expanding sea ice conditions suggest coastal Antarctica (Victoria Land Coast, VLC) climate is colder and icier today than any time since the last glacial. A new study even suggests the last glacial (CO2 […]
Posted in Antarctic, Cooling/Temperature, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. March 2023
Share this… Facebook Twitter“Chironomid‐based temperature reconstructions in the central eastern Alps showed…between ca. 10 000 and 8600 cal a BP…a thermal maximum of up to 4.5°C higher temperatures than present” – Caf et al., 2023 With the exception of a century or two during the Little Ice Age (~1500-1900 CE), the European Alps have had […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 13. March 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterA series of paleoclimate lake reconstructions across China in recent years have failed to support the global-scale warming narrative. Per a new lake temperature reconstruction (Li et al., 2023) from Central China, there were distinct “warm intervals during the RWP [Roman Warm Period] (403–413 CE), with a temperature 2.89°C higher than that […]
Posted in Medieval Warm Period, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. March 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterTwo new studies indicate centennial-scale sea level rise rates ranged up to 29-45 mm/yr during the period between 14,500 and 8000 years ago, when CO2 levels were 250 to 265 ppm. Modern global sea level rise rates have been reported to be 1.56 mm/yr for 1900-2018, decreasing slightly to 1.3 to 1.5 […]
Posted in Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 6. March 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterMost of the 1100 Pacific and Indian Ocean islands have been growing, not shrinking in size, in the last half century. Activists convinced humans are able to exert fundamental control over ocean dynamics claim the rates of sea level rise and modern climate change are so rapid and unprecedented that modern changes […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 2. March 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterAn ancient vegetative and fauna ecosystem discovery in northernmost Greenland reveals how substantially warmer polar climates were when CO2 levels were said to be much lower than today. Reconstruction of the Kap København Formation ecosystem 2 million years ago. Image credit: Beth Zaiken. Source: Sci.News The northern coasts of Greenland are today […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. February 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterA warming event that spans only one year, with decades of stable temperatures before and after, would not appear to align with rapidly rising human CO2 emissions or a gradually rising atmospheric CO2 concentration. From 1958 to 2020, as CO2 rose from 320 ppm to 410 ppm, Greenland had a warming period […]
Posted in Arctic, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. February 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterMore evidence emerges that modern rates of sea level rise are approximately 20-50 times slower than natural rising rates occurring during deglaciations. In tropical areas coral reef fossils form terraces, or flat surfaces bordered by ascending sloping surfaces. Terraces are formed at or near sea level, so their relative geological presence can […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 20. February 2023
Share this… Facebook Twitter“No evidence is found for any systematic trend in precipitation deficits attributable to anthropogenic climate change.” – O’Connell et al., 2022 In a new study (O’Connell et al., 2022), scientists use a stochastic or random probability distribution analysis to assess whether a signal in global precipitation deficits (droughts) could be linked to […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Drought and Deserts, Models, Natural Variability |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. February 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterEvidence of abundant lakes and ponds and the remains of vascular plants, warmth-demanding beetles, sponges, spruce forests…in a newly-discovered organic-rich deposit 480 m above sea level in High Arctic (76.4°N) northwest Greenland indicates the local climate was similar to that of today’s southern Greenland (~60°N) and North America during the Early Pleistocene […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology |
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