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By Kenneth Richard on 30. July 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe magnitude of claimed global warming since the mid-1800s has tripled from 0.56°C to 1.72°C in the last few years. As recently as 1994, the IPCC claimed global surface temperatures had risen “0.3 to 0.6°C” (0.45°C) since 1861. By 2001, it was changed to 0.61°C warming from 1861 to 2000 (IPCC TAR 2001). Image […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, Data Manipulation, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. July 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterUsing biomarker evidence (for example, the Early Holocene presence of sea creatures unable to survive below fixed warmth thresholds) and glacier melt extent measurements (for example, sea shells buried 6 km inside a glacier), scientists have been colloborating on a growing consensus that much of Arctic Svalbard was about 7°C warmer than today during […]
Posted in Arctic, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. July 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterIt is claimed Earth’s surface has warmed by 1°C in the last 140 years – which is a supposedly rapid climate change. But a new study suggests the Northern Hemisphere surface naturally cooled by 1°C in 8 or 9 years, then warmed up again by 1°C within decades during the Late Antique Little Ice […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 20. July 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new study finds China’s 2016 “cold wave” – a sudden 6°C temperature plunge below the average, sustained over several days – resulted in a dramatic increase in cold-related deaths for a period of 5 weeks. Since the 1980s, there have been 20 times more deaths attributable to cold weather than to hot weather […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. July 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterFrom about 80,000 to 20,000 years ago, Greenland temperatures abruptly warmed by about 10°C in just a few decades on at least 20 occasions. And then, about 870 to 1,500 years later, CO2 rose. Li and Born (2019) document 8-16°C climate warmings (Dansgaard-Oeschger events) in Greenland that extended to both hemispheres between about 80 […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 13. July 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitter A new study documents the dominance of internal variability in decadal-scale global temperature changes and suggests we may experience a global cooling trend during the next 15 or even 30 years despite rising greenhouse gases. Maher et al. (2020) acknowledge that internal variability in global surface temperature variations is “a difficult concept to […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Natural Variability |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. July 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterA 2006 peer-reviewed scientific paper (Inglesby et al., 2006) on pandemic mitigation policy said the efficacy of 3-feet social distancing is unknown, surgical masks do little to prevent virus droplet inhalation, and closing schools, restaurants, stores…have seriously adverse community consequences. The paper refers to what policymakers should recommend if there is an influenza pandemic. […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 6. July 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterExtensive hake (fish) skeletal remains in ocean waters too cold for this species to occupy today suggest past ocean temperatures were several degrees warmer. Fish habitats are limited by specific temperature boundaries. In a new study, for example, Wheeland and Morgan (2020) found there was a pronounced ocean warming from the 1980s to late […]
Posted in Oceans, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 2. July 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new 1876-present temperature reconstruction for Northern Finland shows the 1930s were the warmest period of the last 140 years. And there has been no net warming since. Tree density analysis, MXD, has a “more prominent association with temperature” than measuring tree ring widths because it can more clearly separate precipitation factors affecting tree […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 29. June 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterMarine species subjected to high CO2 extremes – 8,891 to 95,000 ppm – in their natural environments may not be adversely affected. They may even “thrive”. Earlier this year we highlighted a study that says coral reefs “thrive” near seafloor volcanic vents where CO2 concentrations reach 60,000 to 95,000 ppm. Image Source: PHYS.ORG Urchins basking […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Coral Reefs, Emissions, Natural Variability |
By Kenneth Richard on 25. June 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterDue to the expansion of wind energy projects in the United States in the last decade, a conservative estimate for yearly bat fatalities from wind turbines ranges between 1.7 to 3.7 million. A new study suggests death numbers may be 4 to 7 times higher due to carcass search deficiencies. It is estimated that […]
Posted in Green Follies, Wind Power |
By Kenneth Richard on 22. June 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterThere is no apparent connection between Greenland’s ice melt and atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The ice that blankets Greenland today stands over 3 kilometers high. This ice volume can almost completely vanish – with just a tiny ice cap in the eastern highlands remaining – when CO2 concentrations only reach pre-1750 levels, or 260 to […]
Posted in Arctic, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology |
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