By Kenneth Richard on 10. June 2024
A collection of 85-year-old photographs reveal “growth and stability” of the East Antarctic ice sheet. Per a new study, more than 2200 historical aerial photos of a 2000 km stretch of ice in East Antarctica have been recently uncovered. The rare images reveal what the glaciers in this region looked like in 1937. Interestingly, the […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers |
By Kenneth Richard on 6. June 2024
A new West Greenland temperature reconstruction (Strunk et al., 2024) finds the region was 1.5 to 2°C warmer than today from 560 to 1100 CE, encompassing the Medieval Warm Period (MWP). The LOI (vegetation abundance) record reflects a much wetter, greener landscape during the MWP. Image Source: Strunk et al., 2024
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 4. June 2024
In the 1970s and 1980s ExxonMobil did not know that their reports would be so wrongly misinterpreted in the 2010s. Since 2015, when “investigative journalists” uncovered reports written in the late 1970s by ExxonMobil’s Science Advisor J.P. Black, it has been a common talking point in alarmist circles to insist that “Exxon Knew” about the […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Models, Uncertainty Error |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. May 2024
“Modern warming is within natural Holocene climate variability” – Kullman and Öberg, 2024 From about 16,800 to 6000 years ago warmth-dependent tree species grew 300-700 altitudinal meters higher than they do today on Mt. Åreskutanthan, Swedish Scandes. Due to the well-known warmth threshold for boreal tree species and the lapse rate (0.6°C per 100 m), […]
Posted in Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. May 2024
Scientists refer to the Middle and Late Holocene’s much warmer and wetter regional climate as “favorable,” “optimal” and “the best.” New research from a Loess Plateau study site identifies mean annual temperatures as 9.86°C today, while annual precipitation averages 531 mm. These values are shown to be among the coldest and driest of the last […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth |
By Kenneth Richard on 24. May 2024
In what shouldn’t even be news, scientists have discovered warmth and rising CO2 are beneficial to crops, whereas cold and falling CO2 lead to declines in crop production. Scientists have determined the “main factor” directly improving post-1960 crop yields across China is a warming climate (Chen and Sun, 2024). Warming expands the growth area for […]
Posted in Agriculture, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth |
By Kenneth Richard on 20. May 2024
The amplitude of the recorded warmth in the 1940s was always a problem for purveyors of the human-caused global warming narrative. So the 1940s temperatures have been artificially cooled to make this less of a problem. In 2009, overseers of the HadCRUT global temperature data discussed “correcting” the “1940s warming blip” in e-mails that they […]
Posted in Data Manipulation |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. May 2024
The phenomenon of increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases (water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane) is assumed to lead to sharply rising temperatures in polar regions, or “polar amplification.” As it turns out, it doesn’t. Per a new radiative forcing model (Notholt et al., 2024), increasing CO2 from pre-industrial to present levels (278 to 400 ppm) […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity |
By Kenneth Richard on 13. May 2024
Disturbing resting seafloor CO2 is yet another way humans are believed to be heating up the planet. Only 1% of the seafloor has been molested by dragging nets through the sand (trawling) in an effort to retrieve the seafood staples we enjoy. But that’s enough to wreak havoc on the Earth’s climate at the top […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Green Follies, Ocean Acidification, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. May 2024
A new study finds warmth-demanding species could survive in the Holocene Arctic (northern Norway) hundreds to thousands of km north of where they reside today. This affirms temperatures were “higher than today” with much less snow and ice back then. DNA evidence from a site north of the Arctic Circle indicates African wildcat (Felis lybica) […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 6. May 2024
Human footprints embedded into rock that used to be a sand beach at the limit of the seashore’s “swash flow” and high tide lie 20 to 30 meters above the present sea level. The footprints are dated to ~90,000 years ago. It is estimated that sea levels were globally about 6 to 9 meters higher […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 2. May 2024
“CO2 is only present in the atmosphere in trace amounts (0.04%) and lacks sufficient enthalpy to have any measurable effect on the atmosphere’s temperature.” – Nelson and Nelson, 2024 New research (Nelson and Nelson, 2024) further documents the inconsequential role that CO2 plays in climate. Less than 4% of longwave infrared radiation is absorbed by […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology |
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