CO2 and GHG

Hans von Storch: “Serious Problem” For Climate Research If Temperature Doesn’t Change In The Next 5 – 6 Years!

The print edition of Spiegel today has an interview with Prof Hans von Storch, the outspoken leading climate scientist often aims criticism at both sides of the climate debate. Not that von Storch is sort of a provocateur, rather he only speaks his mind, which at times for some means a message they’d prefer not to [...]

Skeptical Science Folly: Video Based On Flawed Rahmstorf & Foster Paper Disappears!

Die kalte Sonne website posted an article yesterday about a Skeptical Science video folly. ============================================ Climate activist group close to IPCC removes video: The science on which it was based, from Stefan Rahmstorf, is no longer the scientific consensus By Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian Lüning (translated/edited by P Gosselin) For years Skeptical Science has been [...]

Prof. Murry Salby’s Presentation In Hamburg: Climate “Model World” Diverges Starkly From “Real World”

Prof. Murry Salby’s Presentation In Hamburg: Climate “Model World” Diverges Starkly From “Real World”

Die kalte Sonne website here has just posted the video presentation of Murry Salby in Hamburg in April. If anyone ever demolished the dubious CO2 AGW science, it’s Salby! Most of the presentation is very mathematical and technical. But the last 10 minutes sums everything up very nicely for the laypersons. Die kalte Sonne writes: Prof. [...]

Schellnhuber Slips, Confirms Ocean Cycles Do Play A Major Role, Yet Hasn’t Added Them To Climate Models

Schellnhuber Slips, Confirms Ocean Cycles Do Play A Major Role, Yet Hasn’t Added Them To Climate Models

Yesterday here I wrote about some comments made by Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber at a press release  last week on the first day of the World Conference on Climate Impacts in Potsdam Germany. Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber confirms that oceans are a major factor in global temperature. Image source: www.climate-impacts-2013.org/. While answering a question from a journalist about why global [...]

Alarm Called Off! Leading Swiss Daily NZZ On Otto et al: “Climate Reacts Less To CO2 Than Thought”

Alarm Called Off! Leading Swiss Daily NZZ On Otto et al: “Climate Reacts Less To CO2 Than Thought”

A few days ago Switzerland’s flagship daily the NZZ also commented on the Otto et al paper, which indicates CO2 climate sensitivity was over-estimated and that the worst-case scenarios very likely aren’t going to take place. Otto et al is just more hard evidence showing earlier models completely miss the barn. Chart source: www.drroyspencer.com. What we are [...]

Otto et al…First Rats To Leave The Sinking Ship That Is Man-Made Global Warming

Otto et al…First Rats To Leave The Sinking Ship That Is Man-Made Global Warming

All the talk now is about the Otto et al paper that just has come out, which claims that, well, the warming isn’t going to be like we thought. Oops. Chart source: www.nature.com/ngeo/journal.pdf Spiegel provides a first glimpse of the reaction from Germany: New Study On Climate Change: Earth Warming More Slowly Than Feared. The [...]

Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations At 400 PPM Are Still Dangerously Low For Life On Earth

Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations At 400 PPM Are Still Dangerously Low For Life On Earth

With atmospheric CO2 concentrations reaching the 400 ppm level, the media and a number of alarmist scientists have set off the mega-alarm bells, claiming “record high levels” of CO2 had been reached, and that the planet is on the verge of an overdose. This is based purely on ignorance of the Earth’s history. Worrying that [...]

New York Times Conceding Low Sensitivity! Now Talking About “CO2 Quadrupling” To Get Catastrophe Scenarios!

New York Times Conceding Low Sensitivity! Now Talking About “CO2 Quadrupling” To Get Catastrophe Scenarios!

It’s not every morning one wakes up and finds you’ve been quoted by the New York Times. That’s what happened to me this morning. CO2 losing its fizz. Public domain photo. In his article, A Change in Temperature, Justin Gillis tells his readers that the issue of CO2 climate sensitivity has become more hotly disputed [...]

400 PPM CO2 Concentration Announcement Unleashes Wave Of Mass Hysteria In Germany

400 PPM CO2 Concentration Announcement Unleashes Wave Of Mass Hysteria In Germany

Watching the reaction from the greens, media, climate scientists, and a number of politicians here in Germany reminds me of the time when I was in 6th grade and a friend of mine and I threw a dead mouse in a group of 3rd grade schoolgirls out on the school yard. That sent them off in all [...]

The Real Reason Why The Warmists Totally Dread The Future Of Rising CO2…Divergence!

The Real Reason Why The Warmists Totally Dread The Future Of Rising CO2…Divergence!

I was looking at the Climate4you.com/ chart Joe Bastardi used in a recent post. It shows the CO2 and the temperature curves. In it we already see the first signs of why the warmists are getting seriously nervous. The divergence is beginning: Figure 1: TODAY: CO2 concentration and global temperature. The divergence began in 2005. [...]

Baffled German Government Concedes! “Global Warming Has Stopped…Warming Pause Is Remarkable…Unexpected”

Baffled German Government Concedes! “Global Warming Has Stopped…Warming Pause Is Remarkable…Unexpected”

Green Radio of the Umweltbundesamt – UBA - (German Federal Department of the Environment) recently had a radio interview with Henrik Kirchhof, some climate expert for the UBA I guess. Topic: Why has there been no warming in 15 years? The German government finally concedes. The host of the interview starts by telling the audience that “climate scientists [...]

Professor Murry Salby To Callenge “Global Warming” In Presentation At The Helmut Schmidt University

Professor Murry Salby To Callenge “Global Warming” In Presentation At The Helmut Schmidt University

No disinvitation so far. Both the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) and Die kalte Sonne sites have announced that renown scientist Murry Salby will be speaking on climate in Hamburg. Salby at a presentation in Sydney. Source here. Professor Salby of the Macquarie University in Sydney has been invited by the Helmut Schmidt University [...]

Meteorologist Joe Bastardi: The Whole CO2 “Argument Is Tiresome And Absurd…Warmists Living In A Fantasy World”

Meteorologist Joe Bastardi: The Whole CO2 “Argument Is Tiresome And Absurd…Warmists Living In A Fantasy World”

Joe Bastardi of weatherbell.com/ kindly took the time to write a comment, and so I think it deserves being upgraded to a post. It’s one whole semester of meteorology summed up (edited by PG)! Here’s the problem globally: We continue to dwell on temperatures in the Arctic and ignore the fact that it’s a natural cyclical distortion because the planet [...]

Flagship Daily DIE WELT Stuns Germany: “Scientists Warn Of Ice Age”, Cites New Peer-Reviewed Russian Study

Mentioning the lethal “100-year, record-smashing” spring cold and snow spreading across Europe over the past month has for the most part been avoided like the plague by Germany’s mainstream media. The silence over the record cold and frost, which has killed thousands and cost billions, has been ear-ringing. Yet some leading dailies are breaking ranks, and have [...]

LOL! DIE WELT (September 2010): “By 2030 Spring Will Begin Already At The End Of January”!

The record cold that is still gripping Germany even set a record low at the warming-obsessed Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research this weekend. At yahoo news.com.html today they write (my emphasis): Last weekend the lowest temperatures in more than 100 years were recorded in many parts of the country for this time of the year. [...]