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By Kenneth Richard on 25. October 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterScientists continue to affirm the critical role of clouds in modulating the Earth’s energy budget, and, hence, the climate. The total net forcing of the entirety of the CO2 influence on climate has been less than 2 W/m² since 1750 (Feldman et al., 2015). Image Source: Feldman et al., 2015 On a per-decade basis, a […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 21. October 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterNew temperature reconstructions using coral skeletons as proxies reveal there has been no apparent net warming in the Great Barrier Reef, central Indian Ocean, and South China Sea since the 19th century – or even in recent decades. Coral skeletons can be used as proxies to reconstruct 1870s-present sea surface temperatures “throughout the Great […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Coral Reefs, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 18. October 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterThree new studies affirm the increase in absorbed solar radiation associated with decreased reflection by clouds (albedo) has been the “root cause” of the positive Earth Energy Imbalance and global warming since the early 2000s. Scientists (Loeb et al., 2021) have determined the rather uncertain positive trend in Earth’s Energy Imbalance (EEI) from 2005 […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 14. October 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterFrom Russia to the Indian Ocean to Antarctica, surface temperatures were much warmer than they are today during Medieval times. 1. The Eastern Russia region was 1.5°C warmer than now during the Medieval Warm Period. The modern warm-up began centuries ago and temperatures have declined in the last few centuries. Relative sea levels were […]
Posted in Medieval Warm Period, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 11. October 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe narrative that says the vaccinated are shielded from COVID infection, hospitalization, and death is undermined by observational evidence that says the opposite. Many new studies and data analyses from across the world show that more vaccinated a region is, the more new infections, hospitalizations, and deaths there are. COVID-19 infections Data from 68 […]
Posted in Pandemic |
By Kenneth Richard on 7. October 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new study indicates that from 4,000 years ago until as recently as 1,500 years ago, or when CO2 levels ranged between 255 and 270 ppm, lake levels in Antarctica were as high as 60 meters above today’s levels. This coincided with “warmer-than-modern paleoclimate throughout the Holocene.” During the last 2,000 years, Antarctica’s temperatures […]
Posted in Antarctic, Cooling/Temperature, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 4. October 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new study (Burkart et al., 2021) reports that for every 356 deaths attributable to warm weather across the globe there were 1,337 attributable to cold weather in 2019. The cold weather death attribution in 2019 was up from 1,021 (thousands) in 1990, a 24% increase. Warm weather deaths also rose – from 205 […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth, Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. September 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterPost-publication rejection of peer-reviewed scientific papers precisely because they are “are highly controversial due to their political and social implications” are another means climate activists continue their banishment of dissent on climate change. Back in 2009 the Climategate e-mails provided written documentation affirming suspicions climate scientists inclined to activism seek to “oust” those who […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. September 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new study (Kumar et al., 2021) reports the “overall SST trend in the Weddell Sea is negative” since 1979 and this has occurred in tandem with “the expansion of SIE [sea ice extent].” Another new study (King et al., 2021) reports the oldest temperature stations in Antarctica show a cooling/non-warming trend since 1956. […]
Posted in Antarctic, Cooling/Temperature, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. September 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterScientists continue to find regions of the world where modern “global” warming has not occurred. Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the South Atlantic (south of South Africa) and Southern Ocean (New Zealand) are colder today than they have been at any time in the last 12,500 years (Shuttleworth et al., 2021). SSTs were multiple […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 20. September 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new study shows ocean pH (“acidification”) levels naturally vary seasonally and decadally at rates and magnitudes far exceeding those attributed to anthropogenic activity. In recent decades the oceans’ average pH level has fallen to 8.1 according to NOAA. This pH value is said to be about one-tenth of a unit lower than it […]
Posted in Ocean Acidification, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. September 2021
Share this…FacebookTwitter The Canadian Arctic’s surface temperatures have been up to 15 to 25°C warmer than today during the geologically recent Holocene, Pleistocene, and Pliocene epochs. Scientists (Campbell-Heaton et al., 2021) assessing the ratio of winter temperature at the ground surface to that in the air (the “freezing n-factor”) suggest ground surface winter temperatures now […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology |
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