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By Kenneth Richard on 23. January 2026
“[D]uring the last 6 ky, repeated, meter-scale, rapid (<300 y) rises alternated with meter-scale falls…interpreted as global.” – Higgs, 2026 A new study uses excavation evidence (wall ruins, coins, pottery) to suggest sea level rise (SLR) rates reached ~4 m in ~70 yrs (60 mm/year, or 20 times the modern rate of 3 mm/year) from […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 19. January 2026
Across the globe, vermetid gastropods (shelled snails, or molluscs) are a “critical paleo-sea level indicator” for ancient coastline reconstructions (Angulo et al., 2026). Along the Brazilian coast, vermetid shell radiocarbon ages indicate the relative sea level (RSL) was “more than 2 m above present” between 6000 and 7000 years ago. (The charts shown in the […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. January 2026
“Remarkably, we found here that species-level extinctions related to climate change have not significantly increased over the last approximately 200 years.” – Saban and Wiens, 2025 According to many recent studies intended to alarm the public about the consequences of tenths-of-a-degree warmer surface air temperatures, “20-30% of all plant and animal species may be lost […]
Posted in Alarmism, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. January 2026
A large portion of the Greenland ice sheet that is today over 500 m thick did not exist during the Early to Mid Holocene. Prudhoe Dome (PD), a 2500 km² section of northwestern Greenland’s ice sheet (GIS), is today 500 to 600 m thick (Walcott-George et al., 2026). Approximately 6000-8000 years ago, or when atmospheric […]
Posted in Arctic, Cryosphere, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 7. January 2026
CO2’s role in climate change is too small to detect in error-ridden attribution measurements. Downward longwave radiation (DWLWR) at the ocean surface “is among the most important components of the heat flux across the ocean-atmosphere interface, which, in turn, shapes the climate state of both the atmosphere and the ocean” (Peng et al., 2025). According […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, Uncertainty Error |
By Kenneth Richard on 2. January 2026
“The remaining 98.43% of climate forcing arises from sources other than anthropogenic CO2.” – Davis, 2025 When it comes to climate forcing, “atmospheric CO2 plays a minor and diminishing role in forcing contemporary global warming.” Key quotes from Davis, 2025 “As a result of today’s higher concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere, the radiative forcing […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. December 2025
Global warming was significantly more pronounced in the early 20th century and prior to 1940, or back when CO2 emissions rates were 8.6 times lower than they were from 1983-2024. A new study using 60 million daily maximum/minimum temperatures from 1600 global weather stations across 29 countries indicates the globe warmed at a rate of […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. December 2025
The Southern Ocean (60-70°S) and Antarctica (south of 60°S) were warmer in the late 1970s and early 1980s than in recent decades (Vihma and Uotila, 2016, Ma et al., 2025). These regional temperature anomalies do not align with linearly-rising CO2 emissions. Image Source: Vihma and Uotila, 2026 Image Source: Ma et al., 2025
Posted in Antarctic, Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 19. December 2025
Today’s sea levels are the lowest of the last several thousand years. Carbon dating evidence from the elevation of abandoned penguin rookeries (and other proxies) reveal relative sea level (RSL) was ~30 m higher than today across East Antarctica about 8000 years ago (Small et al., 2025). Following that highstand RSL fell rapidly at rates of […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. December 2025
“Temperature is an intensive property that is defined only in equilibrium systems and cannot be meaningfully averaged across non-equilibrium systems.” − Cohler, 2025 A 2007 math proofs study that asserted a global mean temperature does not exist in reality (because a temperature average can only be defined in equilibrium systems) has never been disproved. For […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Uncertainty Error |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. December 2025
Central Asia’s Karakoram Mountains have not undergone any warming since 1851, a trend that is inconsistent with claims that modern warming has been global in scale. Per a new study‘s reconstruction of summer temperatures over the last 170 years, this region has cooled dramatically (by nearly 1°C) since the 1980s. This “anomalous” cooling trend has […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers
By Kenneth Richard on 5. December 2025
“[T]he fraction of [fossil] fuel-related emissions still remaining in the air (about 23 ppm out of 425 ppm at the end of 2024) cannot have any climatic effect.” – Veyres et al., 2025 A few years ago Dr. Koutsoyiannis and colleagues used equations associated with the chemistry of temperature-driven organic respiration to demonstrate that, since […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions, Natural Variability, Oceans |
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