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By Kenneth Richard on 8. October 2026
Reducing human emissions has almost no effect on global temperatures. An inconvenient new study published in Nature Communications highlights the double-bind consequences of maintaining the view that humans fundamentally control the global climate. This paradigm incentivizes scientists to publish studies that insist humans simultaneously cause both warming and cooling, flooding and drought, glacier retreat and […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Emissions, Pollution, We're To Blame |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. September 2026
Newly published research identifies convective heat transfer and the consequent lapse rate, and not radiation, CO2 concentration, or the so-called greenhouse effect, as the predominant mechanisms warming Earth from its effective radiating temperature, ~255 K, to ~288 K. Proponents of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) narrative necessarily believe (1) CO2 is the Earth’s temperature “control […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 25. August 2026
“…data on CO2 cannot be explained by the model of the greenhouse effect as the driver for temperature” Today’s climate models assume there is a perpetual positive feedback as more CO2 is added to the atmosphere; CO2-induced warming produces more and more warming. But Dr. Peter Stallinga uses empirical evidence-based data in his 2025 paper […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 21. August 2026
“…we conclude that changes in plant decomposition and [soil respiration] due to global temperatures primarily control global CO2 cycles.” − Nishioka, 2026 CO2 changes have been observed to lag temperature changes (warming) via soil respiration since 1979 (r = 0.74). The consistent uni-directionality is T→CO2. Anthropogenic CO2 accounts for 4% of the carbon cycle and […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Natural Variability |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. August 2026
Cloud cover changes are a “top-down dynamical driver” of Earth’s climate. A July 2026 Environmental Research Letters paper authored by Bellocchi et al. attributes ~80% of the rise in Earth’s absorbed solar radiation since 2000 to declining high-reflectivity cloud cover, primarily from circulation-driven contraction of storm-cloud zones. The study highlights the climate’s “albedo governance,” suggesting […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, CO2 Greens the Earth |
By Kenneth Richard on 6. August 2026
In new research (Liu et al., 2026), scientists acknowledge clouds “markedly impact near-surface air temperatures” by altering the radiation budget and driving heating rates across the Arctic. For example, a cloudy day in winter may deliver 20-30 W/m² of cloud radiative forcing (CRF), warming the Arctic surface by 6-9°C. However, due to massive uncertainties in […]
Posted in Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 1. August 2026
The CO2-induced “polar amplification” narrative peddled by climate alarmists has just taken another hit. It has previously been shown increasing CO2 by over 120 ppm (278 ppm to 400 ppm) cools the Antarctic climate (Notholt et al., 2024). These scientists found there has been a slight (-0.01°C) overall net cooling CO2 influence since 1750. Image […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature
By Kenneth Richard on 17. July 2026
Radiative forcing imbalances are predominantly elicited by anomalies and trends in surface solar radiation, which is modulated by aerosol and cloud albedo. New research indicates that from 1750 to present there was a total net -10.95 W/m² surface radiative forcing (RF) over South Asia. This negative radiation imbalance – a cooling effect – has been […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, Solar Sciences
By Kenneth Richard on 12. July 2026
“Slight warming of the air is also observed with [100,000 ppm] CO2 but is close to the temperature resolution of the sensors with ±0.1°C. Given an approximately 400 times lower CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, this warming is likely negligible.” – Schnell and Harde, 2026 New lab experiment research shows that the addition of 100,000 […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. June 2026
More observational evidence emerges showing CO2’s effects are too small to drive climate. The oft-cited Feldman et al. (2015) paper proposes to isolate the CO2 impact by only considering a “clear-sky” atmosphere at two sites: the North Slope of Alaska and the Southern Great Plains (USA). In other words, that study can only claim to […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 22. June 2026
“These findings indicate that the primary driver of air temperature increase in Kraków is the rise in SD (solar radiation influx) rather than [CO2] radiative forcing (∆F).” New research shows internal or natural changes in cloud structure have allowed more solar radiation to reach the surface in recent decades as documented by the widespread increase […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 10. June 2026
In a new study, Professor of Earth Sciences Dr. István Kovács emphasizes that climate models fail to account for CO2 emissions linked to tectonic processes or widespread mantle degassing. Instead, the modern carbon budget accountants primarily consider CO2 emissions from the tiny number of Earth’s active volcanoes and ignore the non-negligible mantle-derived emission quantities of […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Models |
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