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By Kenneth Richard on 18. November 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterPaleoclimate evidence shows there is little to no link between atmospheric CO2 concentration and relative sea level. Venice, the treasure of Italy, is a city built on a mud swamp. Consequently, in the last 100 years it has sunk about 25 cm, or 2.5 millimeters per year (Munaretto et al., 2012). The lagoon city […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 14. November 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterIt’s been acknowledged by mainstream scientists for years now that at certain locations on planet Earth, rising carbon dioxide levels cause cooling. It’s now been determined that rising CO2 also causes “negligible” cooling (or warming) depending on the season. A few years ago a seminal paper (Schmithüsen et al., 2015) was published in Geophysical […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 11. November 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterInternational and NASA solar scientists find their Total Solar Irradiance reconstruction extending to 1700 can “correlate well” with Earth’s global temperature records, including a positive net TSI trend during 1986-2008. A new Grand Solar Minimum is expected to commence during the 2030s. Surface climate records that have been uncorrupted by coastal (ocean-air)/urbanization biases suggest […]
Posted in Models, Solar Sciences, Temperature Bias/Urbanization |
By Kenneth Richard on 7. November 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterLarge regions of the globe have been cooling or not warming in recent decades according to several new scientific papers. A new paper shows the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), sea surface temperatures near southern Chile, and the entire region between 50-70°S have cooled or not warmed since the early 1980s (Collins et al., […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 4. November 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAs reported in 4 separately-published papers, scientists have discovered a mechanism whereby islands can build themselves up naturally, thwarting the threat of sea level rise. Tuck et al. (2019) affirm the “implications of island building are profound, as it will offset existing scenarios of dramatic increases in island flooding.” Earlier this year, Duvat (2019) […]
Posted in Coral Reefs, Natural Variability, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 31. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitter For over 40 years (1961-2002), the Greenland ice sheet cooled, thickened, and gained mass just as anthropogenic CO2 emissions were sharply rising. Image Source: Mikkelsen et al., 2018 According to Greenland ice sheet instrumental records, there was a dramatic cooling trend during summer months from the late 1980s to early 2000s (Chylek et […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers |
By Kenneth Richard on 28. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe last 40 years of global temperature changes can be radiatively explained by a natural reduction in cloud cover. From 1979 to 2011, satellite data provide documentation of a reduction in cloud cover and aerosol depth that allowed an additional 2.3 W/m² of positive shortwave energy to be absorbed by the Earth’s surface rather […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 24. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new 800-year reconstruction of Western Arctic Ocean sea ice variability (Porter et al., 2019) indicates the recent centuries (and decades) of sea ice coverage are the most extensive of the period, with no significant net change in the last 200 years. There was no ice cover in the Western Arctic for about 2 […]
Posted in Arctic, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 21. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn two new papers (Chen et al., 2019, Gao et al., 2019), scientists identify an expansive greening trend for nearly 3/4ths of the globe’s land area as well as a 12.4% carbon sink increase, a 39% crop yield increase, and a 95% crop production increase since the early 1980s. The scientists attribute these trends to […]
Posted in CO2 Greens the Earth, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth |
By Kenneth Richard on 17. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterMainstream climate science claims CO2 molecules “slow down the rate of heat-loss from the surface” like a blanket does. And yet the rate at which a CO2 molecule retains or slows down heat loss is, at most, a negligible 0.0001 of a second. A CO2 concentration of 300 ppm versus 400 ppm will therefore […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Scepticism |
By Kenneth Richard on 14. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterScientists (Bragato and Holzhauser, 2019) find natural catastrophes like tornadoes and earthquakes and pandemics like plague, cholera, and influenza “concentrate in the periods of ice expansion in Europe” whereas periods of economic expansion and a lower incidence of natural catastrophes and pandemics occur during deglaciation phases, or warm periods. Century-scale cooling can be elicited […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Little Ice Age, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By Kenneth Richard on 10. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn a new study, scientists report that about 17,000 to 20,000 years ago, when CO2 levels hovered near 190 ppm, “summer temperatures were higher here [North Slope, Alaska] than they are today” (Kuzmina et al., 2019). Image Source: Guthrie and Stoker, 1990 and The New York Times In the modern climate, North Slope, Alaska […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 7. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterLong-term observation of coral reefs indicate rising sea levels “not only promoted coral cover” but also “limit damaging effects of thermally-induced bleaching” (Brown et al., 2019). Image Source: Brown et al., 2019 This new paper is an expansion of the research conducted by the same lead author in 2011 (Brown et al.). Brown and […]
Posted in Coral Reefs |
By Kenneth Richard on 3. October 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn the last few years, hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific papers have been published linking changes in solar activity to Earth’s climate (2016, 2017, 2018). The evidence for a robust Sun-Climate connection continues to accumulate in 2019. When it comes to the Sun’s influence on climate, one conclusion is certain: there is no widespread scientific […]
Posted in Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new reconstruction of Arctic (NW Greenland) sea ice cover (Caron et al., 2019) reveals modern day sea ice is present multiple months longer than almost any time in the last 8000 years…and today’s summer sea surface temperatures s are among the coldest of the Holocene. Yet another new study (Caron et al., 2019) […]
Posted in Arctic, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGreta Thunberg lives in Sweden. According to peer-reviewed science, Sweden was at least 3°C warmer than it is today about 6000 to 9000 years ago, when CO2 concentrations lingered around 265 ppm. At 410 ppm CO2, 21st century Sweden is colder now than almost any time in the last 9000 years. Image Source: Grudd, […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Medieval Warm Period, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterCO2 concentrations have risen from 310 ppm to 410 ppm since the 1930s. However, there has been no net change in Arctic or Greenland temperatures during these last 90 years. During the Pliocene, CO2 also ranged between about 300-400 ppm, but the Arctic was 15-22°C warmer and sea levels 25 meters higher than today. […]
Posted in Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 19. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA growing proportion of Sweden’s energy is derived from burning biomass (wood), which increases CO2 emissions 65% and 285% more than coal and natural gas energy generation, respectively. And yet because governmental policy – not science – has (wrongly) declared biomass burning “renewable” and “carbon neutral”, Greta Thunberg’s Sweden is falsely credited with reducing […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Green Follies |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterGreenland’s ice sheet mass losses have significantly decelerated since 2013 – a reversal from the rapid retreat from the 1990s to 2012 driven by cloud forcing and the NAO (Ruan et al., 2019). The post-2013 “relatively stable” ice sheet even gained mass during 2017-’18 (Andersen et al., 2019). Ruan et al., 2019 Decelerated […]
Posted in Arctic, Cloud Climate Influence, Glaciers |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. September 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterSince the 1980s, deaths attributable to excessive heat have declined, whereas deaths attributable to cold weather have not. Image Source: The Guardian Rising energy poverty with wind and solar energy penetration Heating a home in the United Kingdom became 63% more expensive in the last decade, and electricity prices have risen by 80% in […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
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