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By Kenneth Richard on 29. May 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterScientists have determined there is no measured data to “indicate thicker than present ice after 4ka” at a West Antarctic study site near the Thwaites “Doomsday” Glacier. Any ice melt observed today is thus “reversible”… and natural. The Thwaites, Pine Island, and Pope Glaciers in the Amundsen Sea region of West Antarctica […]
Posted in Antarctic, Glaciers |
By Kenneth Richard on 25. May 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterTwo University of Michigan professors insist we “must reduce the emission of greenhouse gases to zero” to stabilize the planet’s temperature. But because 80% of our energy use still comes from carbon-based sources today, “ending it will not be easy.” The death of all fossil fuel industry must be imposed, euthanasia-style. It […]
Posted in Alarmism, We're To Blame |
By Kenneth Richard on 22. May 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterIn the last 25,000 years there has been an anti-correlation between rising CO2 and the Siberian Arctic temperature – the opposite of what is claimed by proponents of the anthropogenic global warming narrative. According to a new study, Arctic Siberia was 4°C warmer than it is today from 15,000 to 11,000 years […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 18. May 2023
Share this… Facebook Twitter“Even the lowest pollen derived Pleistocene MAT [mean annual temperature] estimates are still ∼3.5 to 2.5 °C warmer than the modern KPB MATs [Kunlun Pass Basin] of ∼ −6.1 °C.” – Schwarz et al., 2023 The Kunlun Pass Basin (KPB) in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau is the largest alpine permafrost region on […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. May 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterFrom 14,000 to 45,000 years ago, when the atmospheric CO2 values were said to be under 200 ppm, California lakes record millennial-scale mean annual air temperature (MAAT) variations of over 12°C and intervals when it was nearly 4°C warmer than modern. Per a new paleotemperature reconstruction (Olson et al., 2023) from a […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 11. May 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterThe claim that rising global surface temperatures will induce more storm activity is contradicted by observations. Scientists reporting on the contrasting albedo effects of clouds in the Northern vs. Southern Hemispheres (Blanco et al., 2023) assess clouds have a “profound” effect on the global radiation budget and thus our climate. The Southern […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 8. May 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterData analysis again reveals the increase in absorbed shortwave forcing has been driving modern climate change since the 1970s. CO2 changes are more of an effect than a cause of temperature increases. Scientists have for years been pointing to the causality sequencing problem inherent in the claim that CO2 is the driver […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 4. May 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterPer a new study on the hydrological cycle’s role in climate change, today’s state-of-the-art climate models “assume the mean relative humidity at the ocean surface is constant.” They are also known to “assume unchanged wind conditions.” Even with this imaginary constancy, “uncertainties in modeling the hydrological cycle significantly [orders of magnitude, or […]
Posted in Models, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 1. May 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterThe accumulation of over two centuries of precipitation records across Greece indicates there have been overall slightly declining trends in precipitation extremes across the region and “negligible climate variability.” This supports a new study’s tongue-in-cheek title referencing a “404 Not Found” climate crisis. Eight scientists have published a new study examining the […]
Posted in Alarmism, Climate Politics, Scepticism |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. April 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterDuring the last interglacial (LIG) 127 to 119k years ago, when CO2 levels were said to be only 275 ppm, Greenland’s Camp Century surface was ice free, vegetated. Today this same site is buried under a 1.4 kilometers-high ice sheet. The Arctic was sea ice free during the LIG (Diamond et al., […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology
By Kenneth Richard on 24. April 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterA new study exposes the uncertainty in solar activity reconstructions, but suggests solar models explain climate changes far better than atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Proxy model estimates of the impact of solar variability on climate are highly uncertain. For example, estimations of the increase in solar irradiance over the last 400 years range […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 17. April 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterEarth’s average annual temperature fluctuated by as much as 35°C (at high latitudes) from one millennial-scale period to the next during the last glacial period. A recently-published 2-part study (Smul′skii, 2022a and 2022b) utilizes established orbital and insolation data to calculate Earth’s average temperature today (0 k years ago), 14.4°C, and at […]
Posted in Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology |
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