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By Kenneth Richard on 25. February 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterHigh-resolution climate models have projected a “decline of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) under the influence of anthropogenic warming” for decades (Lobelle et al., 2020). New research that assesses changes in the deeper layers of the ocean (instead of “ignoring” these layers like past models have) shows instead that the AMOC hasn’t declined […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Models, Natural Oceanic Oscillations |
By Kenneth Richard on 22. February 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterResearch on polar bear sightings using a systematic “regional marine mammal sightings programme” during 2005-2018 reveals there were 1,433 polar bears sightings from 2005-2011 compared to 2,569 during 2012-2018 around Svalbard. The perspective that polar bears are endangered by global warming because reduced sea ice limits their seal-hunting opportunities is again contradicted by real-world […]
Posted in Arctic, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 18. February 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterTwo new studies suggest fires in Australia and the northwestern US raged with great frequency and regularity until 500 to 900 years ago, when fire records rapidly declined to the present. In the Northern Territory of Australia the highest fire incidence ~4600 to 4000 years before present co-occurred during a time of “high effective […]
Posted in Fire |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. February 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterWhy have sea surface temperatures and proxy temperature reconstructions so strongly diverged from the instrumental land record in recent decades? Because “0.36 ± 0.04 °C” of non-climatic warming from roofs, asphalt, machines, vehicles…artificially enhances the post-1950s global temperature trend. A new analysis (Scafetta, 2021) suggests: • Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects can raise city temperatures 6-9°C […]
Posted in Temperature Bias/Urbanization |
By Kenneth Richard on 11. February 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe survivable temperature thresholds for terrestrial animals in both hemispheres affirm recent millennia were much warmer with less sea ice than today. Antarctica hasn’t warmed in the last 70 years (Singh et al., 2020). The Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica has been cooling and sea ice has been expanding since 1979 (Fan et al., 2014; […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 8. February 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterCO2’s impact on the total net greenhouse effect (GHE) or longwave (LW) forcing trend has been offset by the dominant impact of cloud cover since the 1980s. It is now widely accepted that changes in clouds, naturally driven by changes in atmospheric circulation, “may be the most important parameter controlling the radiation budget, and, […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 4. February 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterCovering 92% of the Northern Hemisphere’s (NH) atmosphere, between 150,000 and 200,000 measured temperatures per month indicated the NH cooled by -0.60°C from 1958-1963. From the equator to 30°N, the cooling was -0.81°C. Climate activists have since eliminated this cooling from the record. Image Source: Starr and Oort, 1973 Temperature measurements indicating the NH […]
Posted in Activism, Cooling/Temperature, Data Manipulation |
By Kenneth Richard on 1. February 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterSeveral more estimates of extremely low CO2 climate sensitivity have been added to the database in the last year. The collection of scientific papers that assess a very low (under 1°C for a doubling of CO2) or a non-quantified, but negligible climate sensitivity has swelled to over 130. In 2015, when it was first published, […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 29. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitter In 2020, more than 400 scientific papers were published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or that otherwise serve to question the efficacy of climate models or the related “consensus” positions commonly endorsed by policymakers and mainstream media sources. Over 400 scientific papers […]
Posted in Alarmism, Antarctic, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, CO2 Greens the Earth, Cooling/Temperature, Coral Reefs, Glaciers, Hockey Team, Medieval Warm Period, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Ocean Acidification, Oceans, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice, Sea Levels, Solar Sciences, Wind Power |
By Kenneth Richard on 25. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterOceans cover 71% of the Earth’s surface. An analysis of CO2’s radiative effect on ocean temperatures finds CO2 forcing is negligible even after reaching a concentration of 1,071 ppm. In the tropical oceans, 500 to 1,000 W/m² of solar radiation uniformly heats the first 2 meters of the ocean surface by 2 Kelvin in […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Oceans, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 21. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterSince the 1980s, warming and rising CO2 fertilization have spawned a global-scale greening trend. This leads to an “Earth greening-induced cooling effect” of land surface temperatures. In the last 9 months we have highlighted a study (Haverd et al., 2020) asserting rising CO2 and warming are the dominant drivers of Earth’s strong post-1980s greening […]
Posted in CO2 Greens the Earth, Emissions |
By Kenneth Richard on 18. January 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterMid-Holocene South China Sea maximum temperatures were ~3.5°C warmer (33.5°C vs. today’s 29.9°C) about 5000 yrs ago, when corals experienced an “optimum coral growth period”. There were “numerous coral bleaching episodes” even when temperatures weren’t as high, as coral bleaching is naturally occurring. Key points from a new study (Wang et al., 2021) that […]
Posted in Coral Reefs, Paleo-climatology |
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