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By Kenneth Richard on 30. June 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterCO2 and water vapor greenhouse effect impacts are not independent climate forcings . A new study affirms the “variance in the radiance in these channels is primarily controlled by…temperature” and “atmospheric absorption is strongly saturated in these [CO2, water vapor] channels”. It has previously been established that greenhouse gas (water vapor, CO2) forcing “cannot […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. June 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new study reports there has been a -0.3°C cooling in the Southern Ocean since 1982 per multiple observational data sets. The authors detail the “failure of CMIP5 models in simulating the observed SST cooling in the Southern Ocean.” The Southern Ocean is today about 1-2°C colder than it has been for nearly all […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, Cooling/Temperature, Models, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. June 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterFrom about 11,000 to 9,000 years ago the summer solar irradiance absorbed by the Earth’s surface has been estimated to be 40-60 W/m² greater than today from latitudes 40°N to 70°N (Ullman et al., 2015). These values seriously undermine the claim CO2 is the driver of climate change. Image Source: Ullman et al., 2015 […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 20. June 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterProfessor Herman Harde, an environmental physicist, has authored a new position paper on the follies of assuming humans significantly impact the climate. As detailed in his 2017 paper, Dr. Harde concludes the “anthropogenic contribution to the actual CO2 concentration is found to be 4.3% [a figure derived from IPCC AR5], its fraction to the […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. June 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterThere has been a “strong upward trend” in solar radiation over the European continent since the 1980s driven by natural ocean circulation factors responsible for “triggering and controlling the entire chain of events in climate processes.” A new study references Dr. Michael Mann’s claim that “changes in SST and heat resources in the waters […]
Posted in Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 13. June 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterMore evidence surfaces showing Greenland isn’t cooperating with the global warming narrative. The notorious “Climategate” e-mail exchanges between activist scientists like Drs. Phil Jones and Tom Wigley revealed how grave a concern it was in 2004 that “GREENLAND HAS BEEN COOLING SIGNIFICANTLY” since the 1950s. “…a warming trend occurred in the Nuuk fjord during […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. June 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterSeveral new and recent studies have affirmed that the waters surrounding South America – from Peru to Chile to Argentina to Brazil – were several degrees warmer and sea levels multiple meters higher than today until the Little Ice Age centuries. A new study suggests ~4,000 to 5,000 years ago coastal Argentina’s sea surface […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Oceans, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 6. June 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new study finds the modeling-based claim that cloud cover changes are only responding to anthropogenic CO2 forcing as a feedback – and not functioning independently as a forcing – has (again) been contradicted by observations. Since this is a water planet, and since clouds are formed when water vapor turns into water droplets, […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence |
By Kenneth Richard on 2. June 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterInstead of focusing on probabilistic percentages and constructed correlations between two events in efforts to determine potential causality, 4 scientists have revisited the requisite conditions for causality in applying the scientific method. They find “the common perception that increasing CO2 causes increased [temperature] can be excluded because it violates the necessary condition for this […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. May 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterDefying climate models, the sea ice surrounding Antarctica steadily increased during the 37 years from 1979-2015. Even after many decades of studying climate processes and a supposed “consensus” that hemispheric-scale sea ice should decline in a rising CO2 concentration world, climate models cannot simulate the causative mechanisms for sea ice variability. “Over recent decades […]
Posted in Antarctic, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. May 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new study (Gao et al., 2022) suggests Antarctica’s sea levels (Ross Sea) were more than 16 meters higher than today ~5,000 years ago and still 5.5 meters higher ~3,000 years ago. Penguins thrived with the warmer climate and diminished sea ice. Image Source: Gao et al., 2022 “Since 1.5 kyr BP, with further […]
Posted in Antarctic, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. May 2022
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new study finds “the total CO2 emissions will be much lower with continued use of the old but operational combustion car instead of buying a new electric one.” Image Source: Neugebauer et al., 2022 It has long been assumed that replacing internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles with electric vehicles (EV) will lead to […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Emissions, Green Follies |
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