The electric car market is reeling in Europe…Germany’s electric car ambitions have taken another body blow as Swedish Northvolt declares bankruptcy in USA.
The massively taxpayer-subsidized gigafactory now under construction in Heide is in jeopardy and becoming a huge embarrassment for Germany’s Socialist-Green government.
Northvolt, a Swedish battery manufacturer, is facing immense financial difficulties and has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States. This filing has raised concerns about the future of Northvolt’s battery plant now under construction near Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Construction of the Northvolt Drei battery factory near Heide began in March 2024 and it was planned to begin production in 2026.
In 2023, the German government and the state of Schleswig-Holstein began to provide significant financial support for the project for the Northvolt plant in Heide, which included a direct grant of 700 million euros and a guarantee of 202 million euros. German Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Robert Habeck, (Green Party), called the battery plant “one of the most significant lighthouse projects of the energy and transport transition, which will create thousands of green tech jobs.”
Habeck, who majored in philosophy and has no education in economics, went on to call the Heide gigafactory project “one of the most important industrial investments in Europe in key green technologies.”
Habeck’s lofty dreams have since turned into a nightmare
But since Northvolt has filed bankruptcy in USA, the cash is gone and it’s increasingly likely German taxpayers will be left to pick up the tab as dreams of a flagship gigafactory in Heide disintegrate.
The billion-euro investment in the plant pushed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Economics Minister Robert Habeck was to be supported by public funds, loans and direct subsidies. According to Blackout News, “The consequences are now hitting German taxpayers with full force.”
Even though atmospheric CO2 rose from 337 ppm in 1979 to 420 ppm in 2022, there is no evidence of a warming trend across Antarctica during this period.
According to a new study, Antarctica’s station data indicate a pronounced cooling trend by over -1°C (-0.53°C per decade) from 1979-1999. The cooling trend thereafter slowed to a pause (-0.004°C per decade) from 1999-2022.
“Reanalysis” data reveal a less pronounced -0.43°C per decade cooling trend from 1979-1999, but a reversal to a +0.29°C per decade warming trend from 1999-2022.
Both the station data and the reanalyzed data affirm an overall long-term (43 years) cooling trend across Antarctica since 1979.
She made Germany the sick old economic man of Europe and the world.
No one has arguably transformed Germany more fundamentally than Angela Merkel, Germany’s first female chancellor.
Under Merkel, Germany allowed hundreds of thousands on immigrants to pour into the country, forever changing the German culture fabric. Her policies also crippled Germany’s energy supply when she decided to shut down the country’s entire fleet of nuclear power reactors and making Germany reliant of Russian natural gas and renewables. This has since led to a crippling of the German economy in the wake of the Ukraine War.
Though her policies and those of her successor government have made Germany the sick old economic man of Europe, she has become the darling of the media for it.
Since she left office in 2021, she’s written and just published her memoirs in a 736-page book titled “Freiheit”. Though it was fervently hyped and promoted by the media last month, it’s not selling well. So far reader reviews have been way short of enthusiastic. In fact, the reviews have been so flat that Welt here reports Amazon has since suspended reader reviews.
So far Freiheit, which sells for a hefty 42 euros, has only managed to get 2.4 stars. Moreover it is only no. 15 on the bestseller list.
More evidence has emerged suggesting there is more sea ice in the Arctic today than nearly any time in the last 8000 years.
According to a new study, biomarker evidence suggests the Barents Sea (Arctic) was seasonally “ice free” from ~8000 to ~2100 years ago, or back when the CO2 concentration was said to be about 265 ppm.
Since that warmer Arctic period, the climate cooled and sea ice extent expanded.
For the last 2100 years sea there has been year-round sea ice in this region . Today the minimum sea ice coverage is in August and September, whereas the maximum ice coverage is in March/April.
The modern period (1988-2007) has among the highest sea ice levels of the Holocene, with ~80% coverage in spring (Koseoglu, 2019).
Germany’s CO2 tax is set to increase from the current 45 euros a tonne to 55 euros at the turn of 2025…
This will drive up heating and energy costs consumers and businesses.
The hefty rise means the tax on CO2 will almost double in just 2 years. In 2023, the carbon tax was 30 euros a tonne.
But it doesn’t stop there, reports Blackout News. The CO2 tax gets taxed by the value added tax, which is currently 19 percent.
“Households and businesses that rely on petrol, diesel, heating oil or natural gas are facing growing financial challenges, writes Blackout News. “A liter of petrol will be 4.3 cents more expensive due to the CO2 tax, diesel will rise by 4.7 cents per liter. Heating costs will also rise dramatically. A kilowatt hour of gas will become a further 0.21 cents more expensive, which means a total increase of 1.21 cents compared to the time before the CO2 tax. Heating oil costs 17.5 cents more per liter – an increase that affects many households.”
The sharp increases will certainly bode ill for the current SPD-Greens-FDP coalition government – which undergoes a vote of no confidence later this month in Parliament. A no-confidence vote will lead to the dissolution of parliament and thus a new election within 60 days of the vote.
The pain at the gas pumps and from higher utility bills will make the current coalition government partners even more unpopular. But whether a new government led by Friedrich Merz (CDU) will change anything remains highly doubtful. Only the opposition AfD party has staunchly opposed the CO2 tax. Currently Merz’s CDU party is well ahead in the polls.
65 euros per tonne in 2026
The CO2 tax is set to rise to 65 euros a tonne in 2026, making the energy cost gap between Germany and other countries potentially unsustainable. Already there’s a growing dissatisfaction among German citizens and businesses as energy prices skyrocket into the stratosphere. Meanwhile the Trump administration as signaled a strong interest in making energy affordable again in USA.
Who’s profiting from the CO2 tax? The government.
According to Blackout News: “More than 18 billion euros flowed into the coffers, including 10.7 billion euros from national emissions trading for heat and transport. Compared to 2022, revenue in this area increased by 67 percent. Revenue from European emissions trading also increased by 12% to €7.7 billion.”
The period between 1250 and 1860 is also known as the Little Ice Age. We have already reported on it several times here. The Little Ice Age was the undoing of the Franklin expedition, among others. In search of the Northwest Passage, the crew failed because of the ice, even though they had set off in summer. Franklin was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He paid with his death.
But what was the climate like at the time and what were the climate drivers? Volcanoes played a major role, but so did a minimum of solar activity. However, summers were by no means consistently wet and cool.
A study from 2022 looks at this topic. Here’s the abstract:
The Little Ice Age (LIA), which lasted from about 1250 to 1860 AD, was likely the coldest period of the last 8000 years. Using new documentary data and analyses of alpine glacier fluctuations, the complex transition from the Medieval Climate Anomaly to the LIA and the ensuing high variability of seasonal temperatures, are described and interpreted for Europe. The beginning of the LIA was likely different in both hemispheres. The low temperature average of the LIA is primarily due to the high number of cold winters. Conversely many summers were warm and dry.
Important triggers of the lower temperatures were, primarily, the numerous clusters of volcanic eruptions and the weak solar irradiance during the four prominent Grand Solar Minima: Wolf, Spörer, Maunder, and Dalton. The drop in temperature triggered the sea-ice–albedo feedback and led to a weakening of the Atlantic overturning circulation, possibly associated with a trend towards negative North Atlantic Oscillation indices.
The statistics of extreme events show a mixed picture. Correlations with forcing factors are weak, and can only be found in connection with the “Years without a Summer”, which very often occurred after large volcanic eruptions.
We must always bear in mind that several factors came together in the middle of the 19th century. One of the coldest periods in the last 8,000 years was followed by a climatic counter-movement. In addition, the industrialization of the world and the massive use of coal began. Land masses were reshaped on a large scale, such as during the colonization of North America.
This period also marked the birth of modern meteorology. During the Crimean War, France lost large parts of its fleet due to a storm for which it was unprepared. As a lesson from this, weather forecasts were made on the basis of data, of course in no comparison to today. However, warnings of storms were also possible back then thanks to the use of telegraphy. So a lot of things came together.
A recent study on the subject found that volcanism was predominantly “responsible” (51% involved), but that the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), which particularly influences winters in Europe, was also involved and that the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) at the other end of the world was even involved (28%). In any case, we would do well to remember that nothing in nature is constant and romanticized images from the period before the mid-19th century should be viewed critically. So the next time we hear the phrase “before industrialization”, please remember this article.
Paul Homewood wrote about poorly sited weather stations in Great Britain, thus making readings and climate data rather questionable.
The European Institute for Climate And Energy (EIKE) now reports of Great Britain’s phantom weather station network: one third of all its stations don’t actually exist.
“All climate forecasts are based on more or less long-term documented measurements from weather stations. They can be used to determine past developments as well as possible trends in future local temperatures. Meteorologists also compile national and international trends based on the data from many measuring stations.”
“But what if much of this basic data is incorrect – or even made up? This is what journalist Ray Sanders claims about the measured values in the UK. According to his research, 103 of the 302 weather measuring stations in the United Kingdom do not exist at all. Nevertheless, they provide official data that is available to everyone on the website of the national weather authority.”
Sanders investigated the weather stations listed by the British Meteorological Service and found discrepancies in the data. For example, the Dungeness weather station supposedly on a nuclear power plant doesn’t exist. In fact, four out of eight stations in Kent do not exist Also, coordinates for many stations are inaccurate.
The alleged location of a weather station is said to be on the roof of a nuclear power plant, according to the coordinates of the British Weather Service. Photo: Google Maps
The most egregious: Sanders had made several inquiries to the weather authority to obtain more detailed information about the weather stations. He reported in the open letter: “Of the 302 locations mentioned, over a third (103) do NOT exist. The Met Office refused to tell me exactly how or where the alleged ‘data’ for these 103 non-existent sites came from.”
Consequently. Sanders questions the scientific validity of the weather data, noting similar issues with weather data collection in the USA where authorities collect measurements for weather stations that have been out of operation for years or decades and corrections are regularly made to some temperature series.
In the USA, it has been noticed that older temperature values have almost invariably been made colder and more recent measurements warmer. This gives a clearer impression of a warming of the regions.
Fundamental components of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) paradigm fail molecular chemistry.
According to a new study, the notion that we can and must reduce atmospheric CO2 so as to avoid climate catastrophe (e.g., runaway global warming or ocean acidification) does not withstand probing academic scrutiny.
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a mitigation strategy proposing to sequester CO2 underground to reduce emissions to “net zero” by 2050. The practice is poised to cost tens of trillions of dollars over the coming decades. New analysis suggests high or ambitious CCS scenarios are presumed to mitigate about half of today’s emissions by 2050. But these economically draconian CCS scenarios are projected to cost US$30 trillion more than those that only mitigate about one-tenth of today’s emissions. Either way, the costs of CCS are astronomical.
But can CCS actually do what is intended and reduce atmospheric CO2 concentrations? Chemistry says no, CCS “will not reduce the atmospheric concentration of CO2 at all.”
“The crux of the issue is that, unlike photosynthesis by plants, perfect sequestration of CO2 will no magically release the O2 that has effectively been ‘sequestered’ in the CO2 and H2O molecules produced by combustion.”
“If the fuel was made of pure carbon, then the net result in the composition of the atmosphere would be a slight reduction in the O2 concentration…and a slight concomitant increase in the CO2 concentration due to the slight shrinking of the denominator.”
Regarding the alarmist “ocean acidification” narrative, the modern trend of rising atmospheric CO2 is assumed to be driving changes in pH levels. However, the chemical basis for this narrative is dubious.
Using the stoichiometric combustion equation, we learn that for every 1 ppm of CO2 increase due to burning fossil fuels, the O2 concentrations decrease by about 2.15 ppm. (For example, over a 20-year period, CO2 increases by 50 ppm as the O2 declines by ~130 ppm.) But this conceptualization engenders fundamental questions for the paradigm that says humans drive changes in the oceans’ pH levels.
“If the reduction in the atmospheric O2 concentration is directly related to the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere, then how can there be enough absorption of CO2 by the oceans to cause ocean acidification, especially since the oceans are highly buffered chemically?”
“If the observed reduction in the atmospheric O2 is accounted for by the observed increase in the atmospheric CO2 concentration, as expected as a result of combustion, then where does the extra CO2 come from that can cause ocean acidification?”
These are just a few of the many other chemistry-based challenges to the AGW narrative described in the paper. It is well worth a read.
Germany’s online Blackout News here reports how the country, now facing a dire energy supply situation, urgently needs to return to nuclear energy.
Symbol image. Photo: U.S. Department of Energy
Germany phased out its entire fleet of nuclear reactors over the past years and hoped to rely on renewable energies, claiming they were cheaper and cleaner. However, the transition has not gone smoothly as grid revamping has not kept up and prices for wind and solar power have made German electricity among the most expensive worldwide.
At the UN Climate Change Conference in Baku, Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has warned that “Germany can no longer turn its back on nuclear power and that a reorientation of energy policy is necessary. The government must reopen the debate on nuclear power.”
“Countries that have nuclear energy want more of it. And many that don’t have any want it,” said Grossi.
“The timing of his comments is no coincidence. Germany’s economy is suffering from energy problems, while the government is consumed with internal disputes,” comments Blackout News. “The political focus has recently been on the disputes within the coalition government, while the electricity market has continued to show new weaknesses.”
Blackout News describes how the prices of electricity “exploded” in early November during a period of calm winds and no sunshine. This forced Germany to fall back on gas and coal (energy sources that the government is currently working to phase out as well). “Fossil fuels supplied 71% of Germany’s electricity at the beginning of November – a figure that has not been reached for over a decade.”
New research indicates there has been no reduction in sea ice in Antarctica’s Robertson Bay (Ross Sea) during the last century. Instead, the frigid Little Ice Age and its expanded sea ice conditions continue unabated through the 20th and 21st centuries.
Between ~8000 and 3500 years before present the Antarctic ice sheet experienced several millennia of retreat and the sea ice extent surrounding the continent decreased throughout the Middle Holocene. For the next few millennia after that, or from about 3500 to 1500 years ago, the ice sheet and sea ice extent advanced to near modern levels.
“The East and West Antarctic ice sheets underwent rapid periods of retreat in the Ross Embayment, the continent’s largest ice drainage basin, between 8 and 3.5 calkyr BP. Recent work shows that retreat was followed by a period of readvance and the ice sheets reached their modern configurations during the late Holocene.”
During the Medieval Warm Period, or from approximately 1500 to 700 years before present, variations in F. curta diatom, a proxy for sea ice extent, indicate Antarctic sea ice retreated again to its much lower (<40%) Middle Holocene levels.
“…during the period between 1.5 and 0.7 calkyr BP…lower F. curta abundance in Robertson Bay (<40%) is characteristic of a reduction in spring sea ice concentration and a longer summer open water season.”
Then, after the Medieval Warm Period ended, Antarctica’s Little Ice Age (LIA) cooling began. The ice sheet grew and sea ice advanced to the highest levels of the last 7000 years (~60%).
“…an increase in the seasonal duration of sea ice between 0.7 calkyr BP [~700 years ago] and the present [is] consistent with ice core temperature reconstructions of cooling atmospheric temperatures.”
German researcher concludes CO2 warming immensely exaggerated…. IR radiation of clouds considerably reduces the greenhouse effect of CO2.”
The prosperity and political stability of our countries are in grave danger. The reason for this is an ideology that claims catastrophic climate change caused by the alleged “greenhouse gas” CO2 and is intent to destroy our civilization and prosperity. Its supporters are spreading a witch-hunt atmosphere against anyone who questions their ideology. So-called “climate deniers” are also denied any scientific expertise.
Every Swiss person can already see the first financial consequences on their electricity bill: In this country, the price of a kilowatt hour has shot up by up to 300% for some households in just four years. And this is just the beginning, as the Swiss government is pursuing the goal of switching to solar and wind power and thus to sources that cost 20 instead of 6 rp/kWh.
Figure 1: A cumulonimbus cloud with the typical “anvil” in the upper area. The white upper surface reflects a large part of the sunlight back into space so that this energy cannot penetrate into the lower parts of the earth-atmosphere system. The nearly black underbelly demonstrates the effectiveness of this reflection (Photo: Fred Mueller)
“Climate deniers”: the everyday witch-hunt against science and freedom of opinion
“Natural science does not provide absolute truths or laws chiseled in stone, but only assumptions and hypotheses. Even if a thesis has proven itself in practice and has found general acceptance, critical scrutiny is not sacrilege but an indispensable duty of every scientist. Bans on thought and muzzles are methods and typical characteristics of a dictatorship that degrades science to an unworthy servant of the powerful. How credible is an ideology that wants to be colourful but suppresses diversity of opinion?” asked chemist Dr Michael Schnell1) in his lecture “Experimental verification of the CO2 greenhouse effect – the false climate prophets” at the EIKE Climate Conference in Munich in 2020. The downright canceling campaign of the previous year’s EIKE Climate Conference2) showed just how justified his warning of dictatorial tendencies is.
“Ministry of Truth” at work
With the participation of journalists, environmental organisations, politicians and “Antifa” (a rogue self-declared antifascist organisation in Germany), attempts were made to prevent the conference through “actions” and political and media pressure on the landlord of the conference hotel. The fact that the corresponding video on the EIKE website can no longer be accessed shows just how sophisticated, intricate and far-reaching this suppression has become. Only an internet search shows that it can still be found on YouTube. However, it is labelled with a warning euphemistically referred to as an “info section” referring to reviews and “fact checks”. There are now networks of such “fact-checkers” operating worldwide4) and throughout Europe5) , which attack alleged misinformation under the guise of “correction” and present “official” opinions as the truth. They use tricks to try to discredit the statements made or people involved. If you follow the link given on the “Info section” on the subject of climate change6), the reader is showered with the full plethora of climate hysteria and money-begging messages brought forward by the United Nations (UN). And of course, this presentation of “infallible truths” is not tagged with any reference to critical scientific voices on the subject.
Even the University of Rostock felt compelled to issue a press release on Dr. Schnell’s lecture7). In it, it “emphatically distances itself from the statements made by Dr. Michael Schnell in relation to climate change. These statements are not based on research results from the University of Rostock”.
These are still the currently milder working methods of the complexly structured “Ministry of Truth”, with which our woke climate overlords want to nudge us towards the “right way of thinking” on climate issues.
Figure 2: The course of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere (black line) and the temperature on the Earth’s surface (blue line) over the last 600 million years or so. It is difficult to understand why CO2 can be described as the “Earth’s thermostat” in view of these curves (graphic from: centil-europe.ch 8)
What was Dr. Schnell’s offence?
What was the actual offence that brought Dr. Schnell this form of reputational damage? He had conducted experiments on the question of how the CO2 greenhouse effect could be proven or falsified. His conclusion:
“Both research methods proved that at least the near-Earth CO2 greenhouse effect is physically possible. But it was also shown that the IR radiation of clouds considerably reduces the greenhouse effect of CO2. The experiments confirm the position of the ‘sceptics’ who see a reduction in CO2 climate sensitivity in water vapour and clouds and accuse the ‘alarmists’ of grossly exaggerating the alleged CO2 danger.”
A thorough analysis
Prof Franz-Karl Reinhart from the EPF Lausanne is one of the well-known critics of the IPCC in Switzerland. In a publication dated 12 September 20179) , he presented a comprehensive analysis of radiative transfer through CO2 . This involved scrutinising Svante Arrhenius’ theory that the strong IR interaction of CO2 molecules leads to the absorption of IR photons emitted from the ground and then to the re-emission of this radiation. The resulting counter-radiation towards the earth’s surface would counteract its cooling and thus cause a greenhouse effect. In his introduction, F. K. Reinhart points out that “water in its aggregate forms [clouds of water vapour, water droplets and snow and/or ice] has an enormous impact on the climate and it therefore makes little sense to assume [solely] radiation or energy balances”. By analysing the pure CO2 radiation mechanism, he wanted to check mathematically what climate impact a doubling of the concentration of CO2 would actually have with respect to the increase in temperature if the interfering influences of water were not present. The IPCC gives values of 3-5°C here.
This is not just about the main absorption bands of CO2 in the IR range in question, which lie at wavelengths of 4.25 and 15 µm. The calculation is way more complicated because these bands have a considerable width. If their structure is broken down more precisely, numerous secondary absorption frequencies can be seen on both sides of the main peaks.
Figure 3: Distribution of secondary absorption lines of the 4.25 µm band of the CO2 molecule (graphic: Anton Paar 10)
In addition, there are various other, less pronounced absorption frequencies spread across the entire IR spectrum. Even if the energy contribution of each of these “smaller” peaks is comparatively small, they should not be neglected as a whole. In total, around 200,000 frequency lines had to be taken into account in the relevant spectral range of 2.9 to 29 µm. Dr. Reinhart relied on the HITRAN program11) for this analysis. This scientific software package offers the researcher comprehensive calculation tools, including the necessary databases. It calculates radiation reactions and radiation transport processes in all possible gases and gas mixtures according to the latest scientific and technical standards. Changes in atmospheric composition and density as well as their evolution with increasing altitude can be taken into account. HITRAN is used by scientists as well as satellite operators, meteorologists and the military due to the quality of its results.
Table 1: The calculation of the forcing Fc based on the current CO2 concentration and climate situation (TEarth = 288 K), the increase in forcing ΔFmax and the resulting temperature increase ΔTmax compared to today for CO2 concentrations of 800, 2,000 and even 4,000 ppm (Table: F. K. Reinhart)
The calculation results shown in Table 1 prove that carbon dioxide is only a very weak greenhouse gas. The temperature increase that has occurred since the beginning of the industrial age as a result of increasing the CO2 content of the atmosphere to 400 ppm is therefore only 0.12 K (or 0.12 °C). It would only rise by 0.24 K even if it were doubled to 800 ppm. Even a tenfold increase to 4,000 ppm (which would be utopian anyway due to the far too small reserves of raw materials) would only result in a temperature increase of < 0.8 K.
Conclusions
In his summary, Prof. Reinhart comes to the following conclusions:
“- The heat retention (“forcing”) by atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2 ) causes a maximum temperature increase of 0.24 K (0.24°C) when the concentration doubles from 400 ppm to 800 ppm, based on a simplified absorption model that is independent of climate.
– This value depends only on the accepted mean earth temperature, T = 288 K, and is relatively insensitive to its uncertainty of 2 K.
– The temperature increase since the industrial revolution amounts to a maximum of 0.12 K, which is within the range of measurement accuracy. The anthropogenic contribution is therefore practically insignificant.
– The behavior of glacial and current temperature trends is not causally linked to carbon dioxide concentrations.
– The causes of global warming have not been clarified. However, they are most likely linked to the solar system and the water cycle.
– Measures to control CO2 emissions and the earth’s temperature are unsuitable, even dangerous means”.
Figure 4: The last cold period in the Alps was characterized by extreme swings in both directions. The upper part of the picture shows the considerably reduced ice cover around 25,000 years after the beginning of the cold period. Only 17,000 years later, the Alpine region was covered by a gigantic ice sheet and the temperature (black curve) was 13 °C below today’s level. The blue curve indicates the volume of ice bound in the glaciers in cm sea level equivalent (screenshots from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXzExbdHuDM 12)
Figure 5: The joint representation of the trends in atmospheric CO2 content and temperature over the course of the last ice age shows that the correlation between the two variables appears to be rather weak. In particular, the explosive rise in the red curve at the very end raises doubts. The course of the CO2 concentration with temperature can easily be attributed to outgassing or absorption due to higher or lower solubility in the sea as a result of Henry’s law. An industrial influence can be ruled out (except for the last 150 years or so). (Graphic: author + screenshot from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXzExbdHuDM)
It may well be argued that the two authors mentioned above are possibly mistaken and not leading specialists. However, this attempt to disqualify them definitely does not apply to John Clauser. The experimental physicist, who specialzes in the fundamentals of quantum mechanics, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022. He is a vehement critic of the current CO2 climate hysteria, as evidenced by his statements at an EIKE conference in 2024. In it, he states that “the IPCC and its collaborators misjudge the prevailing climate process on Earth”. Here is a small selection of statements:
With these theses, Prof Clauser has naturally become a hate figure for climate catastrophe prophets. Significantly, however, the well-known climate activist platform Wikipedia14) merely accuses him of not having published a single peer-reviewed study on climate change in his career. The ridiculousness of this argument can hardly be surpassed. The “climate impact” of CO2 is based on quantum physical interactions between CO2 molecules and IR photons, and this falls entirely within his area of expertise. Of course, no factual refutations of his theses are to be found on Wikipedia. Prof Clauser’s role as ambassador of the “World Climate Declaration” of the Clintel Foundation15) (Climate Intelligence) proves that he is by no means alone in his theories. In addition to Prof Clauser, its more than 1,900 supporters include the Nobel Prize winner for physics Prof Ivar Giaever16) from Norway as well as prominent climate researchers such as the atmospheric physicist Prof Richard Lindzen17) and the experimental physicist Prof Herrmann Harde18) . Prof Clauser is also a member of the board of the CO2 Coalition Foundation19) .
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/hitran/ and L.S. Rothman et al. J. Quant. Spect. and Rad. Transfer 110, 533-572 (2009) We use the CDSD-296 databank. The 2012 HITRAN version complements the near infrared data that is of no concern for this study
Any 21st century ice melt across Greenland cannot be due to an accelerated warming trend, as the island as a whole has been cooling since the 1990s.
New research analyzes two decades of Greenland land surface temperature (LST) data. Contrary to the popular narrative of a significant warming trend, Greenland has instead cooled from 2000-2019 at a rate of -0.055°C per decade.
Southern Greenland also cooled from 1958-2001, suggesting the region has been cooling for over 60 years.
Any recent ice melt in Greenland thus cannot be due to surface warming, as LSTs have undergone a cooling trend in both ice free and ice covered areas.
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