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By Kenneth Richard on 15. August 2026
The bleaching and heat stress narrative that says rising CO2 is an existential threat to coral reef habitat has not been realized. Since reliable monitoring began 40 years ago, scientists (Ceccarelli et al., 2026) provide graphical evidence there has been no significant overall net change in coral cover throughout the Northern, Central, and Southern Great […]
Posted in Coral Reefs, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth |
By Kenneth Richard on 13. August 2026
Scientists (Yilgan and Jónsdóttir, 2026) report annual mean sea ice extent in the Greenland Sea was 8.4 times greater in 2023 (2,403.6 km²) than in 2019 (287.6 km²). In the month of January, the sea ice extent was 6.4 times larger in 2024 (20,308 km²) than in 2017 (312 km²). Hand-in-hand with the recent sea […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. August 2026
Cloud cover changes are a “top-down dynamical driver” of Earth’s climate. A July 2026 Environmental Research Letters paper authored by Bellocchi et al. attributes ~80% of the rise in Earth’s absorbed solar radiation since 2000 to declining high-reflectivity cloud cover, primarily from circulation-driven contraction of storm-cloud zones. The study highlights the climate’s “albedo governance,” suggesting […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, CO2 Greens the Earth |
By Kenneth Richard on 6. August 2026
In new research (Liu et al., 2026), scientists acknowledge clouds “markedly impact near-surface air temperatures” by altering the radiation budget and driving heating rates across the Arctic. For example, a cloudy day in winter may deliver 20-30 W/m² of cloud radiative forcing (CRF), warming the Arctic surface by 6-9°C. However, due to massive uncertainties in […]
Posted in Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 1. August 2026
The CO2-induced “polar amplification” narrative peddled by climate alarmists has just taken another hit. It has previously been shown increasing CO2 by over 120 ppm (278 ppm to 400 ppm) cools the Antarctic climate (Notholt et al., 2024). These scientists found there has been a slight (-0.01°C) overall net cooling CO2 influence since 1750. Image […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. July 2026
Greenland is halfway through its current (2025-2026) melt season. So far it’s not looking good for the alarmist narrative. Image Source: Polar Portal For perspective, there is more ice and snow on Greenland today than for nearly any other period in the last 10,000 years. Image Source: Larocca and Axford, 2022
Posted in Arctic, Cryosphere, Glaciers |
By Kenneth Richard on 18. July 2026
“…a distinct pattern of water vapor suppressing the [sea surface temperature] diurnal amplitudes at low latitudes” – Harris et al., 2025 Observations show morning-to-evening sea surface warming amplitudes can exceed 5°C. Water vapor (WV), the greenhouse gas (GHG) mostly responsible for Earth’s greenhouse effect, adds ~0.1°C warming to this 5°C diurnal change in the high […]
Posted in Oceans, Water Vapor |
By Kenneth Richard on 17. July 2026
Radiative forcing imbalances are predominantly elicited by anomalies and trends in surface solar radiation, which is modulated by aerosol and cloud albedo. New research indicates that from 1750 to present there was a total net -10.95 W/m² surface radiative forcing (RF) over South Asia. This negative radiation imbalance – a cooling effect – has been […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, Solar Sciences
By Kenneth Richard on 12. July 2026
“Slight warming of the air is also observed with [100,000 ppm] CO2 but is close to the temperature resolution of the sensors with ±0.1°C. Given an approximately 400 times lower CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, this warming is likely negligible.” – Schnell and Harde, 2026 New lab experiment research shows that the addition of 100,000 […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 8. July 2026
Today’s climate models are so inaccurate they must be improved a hundredfold just to detect a CO2 signal in climate change. Though clouds “are the largest moderator of Earth’s radiation budget and their absorption of solar radiation directly influence our understanding of climate change,” NASA’s models of the cloud capacity to alter solar radiation diverge […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, Uncertainty Error |
By Kenneth Richard on 3. July 2026
The data show flat trends in shortwave radiation, longwave radiation, and radiation balance for the global ocean since 1970 despite a 100 ppm increase in CO2. An unheralded 2025 study uses long-term observed cloud cover data over oceans to uncover trends in radiative fluxes from 1900 to 2020. Trends in the subtropics (15-40°N, 45-65°W) indicate […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. June 2026
More observational evidence emerges showing CO2’s effects are too small to drive climate. The oft-cited Feldman et al. (2015) paper proposes to isolate the CO2 impact by only considering a “clear-sky” atmosphere at two sites: the North Slope of Alaska and the Southern Great Plains (USA). In other words, that study can only claim to […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG |
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