By P Gosselin on 28. September 2024
Sun, clouds and climate – a post from an EIKE reader Image: NASA (public domain) Posted by AR Göhring In a conversation with the EIKE editorial team, our reader Garik Müller noted that recent solar storms have promoted cloud formation – which would contradict the Svensmark-Shaviv effect and the Forbush effect. But the Earth’s atmosphere […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. September 2024
Per a new study, the last 200 years of global warming are associated with cloud cover decline, and this decreasing cloud albedo can be linked to “the dominant roles of external forces – volcanic, solar, and oceanic – in their mutual influence after the LIA [Little Ice Age].” Scientists have repeatedly reported a satellite-observed (CERES) […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 25. September 2024
The GFS 7-day trend expects a strong cooling, especially in the northern hemisphere. Hat-tip: Snowfan here The 2m temperatures in the northern hemisphere are expected to fall by -0.34°C, which will also pull global temperatures down by -0.24°C. Source: GFS 7-day trend T2m Global: Source: GFS-7-Tage-Trend T2m Global, Karsten Haustein
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 24. September 2024
When assessing the climate-altering effects of downwelling longwave radiation, the root mean square error associated with calculating this value is 29.7 W/m². For some reason, scientists characterize measurements with an observation error this large as “high accuracy”. In an imaginary world where no clouds exist (clear-sky), the surface longwave downward radiation (LWDR) calculated for a […]
Posted in Models, Uncertainty Error |
By P Gosselin on 22. September 2024
Photovoltaic projects crumble in harsh alpine environments…Swiss solar panels on dam project fails after just 2 years. Who cares if it works or not? It’s often how the green racket works: Conjure up some green energy producing pie-in-the-sky project, no matter how unfeasible it may be, propose it to technically illiterate bureaucrats – who permit […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By Kenneth Richard on 20. September 2024
Yet another scientific study concludes CO2 is an insignificant contributor to Earth’s recent temperature changes. New research involving a comparative analysis of satellite (CERES) observations of absorbed solar radiation (ASR) and CO2 radiative forcing modeling finds CO2 may have contributed just 0.09°C to the 0.52°C temperature increase from 2000 to 2023. The rising ASR trend […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 18. September 2024
First mocked, then victorious: The turbine slipstream dispute By KlimaNachrichten (Translated by P. Gosselin) Professor Gerd Ganteför was called a lot of names when he reported on the so-called wake effect of wind turbines on the high seas in spring 2024. Wind turbines in wind farms not only take the wind away from each other, […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Wind Power |
By Kenneth Richard on 17. September 2024
Climate models failed to simulate the observed 1970-2014 Pacific Ocean cooling. The 21st century southwestern US megadrought has been linked to this cooling, which “may have been caused by a forced response to greenhouse gas emissions.” A new study provides a fresh look at the circular, self-contradictory reasoning that proponents of the anthropogenic global warming […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Models |
By P Gosselin on 15. September 2024
Young Germans are rebelling… In response to draconian COVID lockdowns, censorship, media bias, economic collapse and infrastructure decay, Germany’s youth swings to the right. Germany’s political establishment will soon pay dearly for its errors, arrogance and insolence. A profound and accelerating mood swing is underway across Germany, and nothing is stopping it. And the more […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. September 2024
To claim that anthropogenic CO2 emissions drive global warming, radiative forcing modeling studies must assume 1) clouds do not ever change, 2) cloud albedo is constant, and/or 3) clouds do not exist. None of these are real-world conditions. The real atmosphere is what scientists refer to as all-sky, an atmosphere where clouds not only exist […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 10. September 2024
German online weather site Das Wetter here reports: “Up to 3 meters of fresh snow is possible at high altitudes in the Alps” and: “Even in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Oberstdorf it could turn white beginning Friday.” Europe had been basking in late summer warmth, but the weather is now changing dramatically as a so-called Vb weather […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 10. September 2024
“Earth’s energy imbalance has doubled from 0.5 ± 0.2 W/m² during the first 10 years of this century to 1.0 ± 0.2 W/m² during the past decade. The increase is the result of a 0.9 ± 0.3 W/m² increase absorbed solar radiation (ASR)…” − Loeb et al., 2024 Satellite observations from CERES (Clouds and the […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG |
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