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By Kenneth Richard on 2. April 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterDuring the winter of 2016-’17 nearly 25,000 Italian citizens died from the seasonal flu. No one blinked. In well over 3 months since its purported inception, the COVID-19 virus is claimed to be responsible for less than 50,000 deaths globally (as of the 1st of April). Every year, about 500,000 people from across the […]
Posted in Alarmism |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. March 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterThough it’s believed the 130 ppm increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration since 1750 has caused the ocean waters to “acidify”, on a daily basis 50-380°C metallic acid enriched by CO2 concentrations reaching 60,000 to 95,000 ppm pours through seafloor vents. Nearby coral reefs “thrive” in these high-CO2 conditions. Image Source: PHYS.ORG 50 times more […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Coral Reefs, Ocean Acidification, Tectonics/Volcanoes |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. March 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterAccording to two just-published studies in medical journals and one anecdotal report from a COVID-19 hotspot, at least 350 patients with the COVID-19 have been successfully treated with Hydroxychloroquine. A New York City physician reports a 100% efficacy rate, meaning zero of the “hundreds” of infected patients receiving the treatment required hospitalization. Image Source: […]
Posted in Innovation |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. March 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterFrom 1993 to 2018, the satellite altimetry sea level changes reveal both positive and negative accelerations, align with oscillatory patterns, and are dominated by internal variability (e.g., PDO, ENSO). The “forced acceleration pattern” assumed to be associated with anthropogenic global warming “has not emerged”. Image Source: Hamlington et al., 2020 Negative or negligible sea […]
Posted in Natural Variability, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 19. March 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new study finds rising CO2 concentrations (and warming) have driven the rapid increase in Earth’s photosynthesis processes, or greening. CO2-induced planetary greening leads to an enormous expansion of Earth’s carbon sink. By 2100 this greening-sink effect will offset 17 years of equivalent human CO2 emissions. This easily supersedes the effect of Paris Agreement […]
Posted in CO2 Greens the Earth, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. March 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterClouds regulate Earth’s climate. New studies suggest uncertainty in clouds’ surface radiative effects reach 17.4 W/m² per year (±8.7 W/m²/year). Total CO2 climate forcing is said to be just 0.02 W/m² per year. The difference in these magnitudes preclude detection of a CO2 signal in climate forcing. According to Feldman et al. (2015), a […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Scepticism |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. March 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterSeveral new studies use evidence from temperature-sensitive plant species and megafauna remains to reconstruct an Arctic climate that was 6°C to 22°C warmer than today when CO2 concentrations lingered near 300 ppm. Navigating the Arctic Ocean William Barentsz discovered Arctic Svalbard as he sailed through an open-water Arctic Ocean using a wooden boat in […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. March 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new study assesses a reduction in tree cover via urbanization or by clearing forests for cropland can warm up a locality by 1°C within 10 years. In contrast, transitions from croplands and urban centers to forests leads to cooling. Europe has been cooling recently (1992-2015) from land cover transitions to forests. Image Source: […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 5. March 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn yet another new paper (Drotos et al., 2020), scientists determine the climate sensitivity to CO2 is “practically zero” the more the concentration rises. A ~4450 ppm CO2 concentration has cooler climates than observed in the pre-industrial (278 ppm) era. Why? A self-amplifying cloud feedback mechanism cools the Earth by magnitudes “as large as […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 2. March 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterUsing NASA’s MERRA-2 radiation data, scientists find shortwave radiation (SW) has been rising since the 1980s. The SW increase has been larger and faster than longwave radiation (LW) changes during this same timespan. Cloud variability has been the “main driver” of these trends. Image Source: Delgado-Bonal et al, 2020 In a new Nature journal paper […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. February 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe perspective that polar bears are endangered by global warming because reduced sea ice limits their seal-hunting opportunities is contradicted by observations of (a) polar bears thriving (body condition) during melt season, and (b) no trends in reduced seal consumption by polar bears in the 21st century. From the 1880s to 1940s, the Arctic’s […]
Posted in Arctic, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 24. February 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterFrom 2008 to 2016 a widespread cooling ranging from 0.6°C to more than 2.0°C has chilled effectively the entire oceanic region from E. Canada to N. Iceland to S. Europe. The cooling persists year-round and extends from the surface down to depths of 800 m. Image Source: Bryden et al., 2020 A year ago […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Oceans |
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