By Kenneth Richard on 7. January 2021
CO2 is higher at the Poles than at the Equator. When air warms, CO2 goes down and water vapor goes up. The warming effects of CO2 and water vapor do not add; they oppose each other. This is opposite IPCC claims. The IPCC claims doubling CO2 from 280 ppm to 560 ppm over the course […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 28. December 2020
A 2020 observational study (Zhang et al., 2020) determined “temperatures of atmospheric air with substantially higher CO2 concentration (ranging from 3200 ppm to 16,900 ppm) were lower than that with the lower CO2 concentration (480 ppm)” and a 2020 modeling study (Drotos et al., 2020) assessed that when CO2 goes beyond 4 times preindustrial – […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 10. December 2020
At an outdoor test site in Italy CO2 concentrations vacillating between 1,000 and 750,000 ppm have no more or less an effect on local temperatures than a nearby site with stable, ambient (<400 ppm) CO2 concentrations. Mofette fields are “natural carbon dioxide springs” that allow us to observe the effect that a 100% (1,000,000 ppm) […]
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By P Gosselin on 6. December 2020
CO2 has little impact on climate, important for life, says former UN official. A CO2 Memorandum By Albert Köhler MSc. (Translation, editing, subheadings by P Gosselin) With this manuscript I would like to deal with the CO2 topic, which currently seems to be so extremely important for media and politics, solely according to the precepts […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, CO2 Greens the Earth |
By P Gosselin on 5. December 2020
Disaster was narrowly averted Under 180 ppm atmospheric CO2 concentration, life on earth begins to die. The earth came very close to that point not long ago during the Ice Ages (20,000 years ago). Then the planet warmed naturally, and an increase in atmospheric CO2 to over 200 ppm followed (new study here). The earth […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 3. December 2020
A new balloon experiment (inadvertently) demonstrates just how weak and inconsequential CO2’s warming effect is. Levendis et al. (2020) tried using an experiment with air-filled (99% nitrogen and oxygen) versus CO2-filled (100% CO2) balloons to demonstrate a consequential warming effect for CO2. But their study may have demonstrated the opposite. In the experiment a heat […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. November 2020
Scientists report they must “exclude atmospheric pCO2 as a direct driver of SST variations” after finding the Atlantic Ocean’s surface was multiple degrees warmer than today from 90 to 20 thousand years ago, or when CO2 concentrations hovered below 200 ppm. Another new study (Hou et al., 2020) casts even more doubt on the contention […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. November 2020
A new analysis by Drs. Wijngaarden and Happer (2020) suggests the “self-interference” saturation of all greenhouse gases in the current atmosphere substantially reduces their climate forcing power. At the current concentrations, the forcing power for greenhouse gases like CO2 (~400 ppm) and CH4 (1.8 ppm) are already saturated. Therefore, even doubling the current greenhouse gas […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 23. November 2020
CO2 reached 1980s (352 ppm, average) to 2000s (380 ppm, max) levels 2500-5500 years ago in Japan per stomata records. Scientists (Wang et al., 2020) have determined stomatal evidence can uncover large short-term CO2 fluxes of 50-100 ppm within a century or less. Measurements from a forest near Mt. Kurikoma, Japan, reveal minimum to maximum […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. November 2020
Reconstructions of past temperatures show much colder periods with higher CO2 levels or as-warm or warmer periods with much lower CO2 levels. A new study (Paus, 2020) indicates modern July temperatures center around 7.5 to 8°C in the Scandes Mountains (Norway). Today’s CO2 atmospheric concentration has reached 410 ppm. During the latter stages of the […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Little Ice Age, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 19. October 2020
Highly anomalous terrain (an active volcano), 40 years of cooling temperatures, and a CO2 record that dramatically contrasts with fluctuating values from forests and meadows reaching 600-900 ppm all beg the question: Is Mauna Loa’s CO2 record globally representative? Mauna Loa is the Earth’s largest land volcano. It has erupted over 3 dozen times since […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Scepticism |
By Kenneth Richard on 5. October 2020
Prompted by the observation that dramatic COVID-related reductions in 2020 human CO2 emissions had zero impact on the Earth’s CO2 concentration, two scientists conduct extensive statistical probability analyses to conclude temperature changes lead CO2 changes, not the other way around. The nearly global acceptance of economically-devastating lockdowns as a mitigating response to the COVID-19 pandemic has […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions, Paleo-climatology |
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