By Kenneth Richard on 14. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Post-1998 Hiatus Plods On…Regionally Image Source: Gan et al., 2019 North America (180-0°N, 15-60°N) has been characterized as a “major cooling center” by the authors of a new paper (Gan et al., 2019) published in Earth and Space Science. The continent warmed from 1982-1998, but a cooling trend since 1998 has nearly wiped […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 11. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterDuring the Mid-Holocene, when CO2 concentrations were stable and low (270 ppm), Antarctica’s massive Ross Ice Shelf naturally collapsed, adding the meltwater equivalent of 3-4 meters to sea levels. Because CO2 concentrations changed very modestly during the pre-industrial Holocene (approximately ~25 ppm in 10,000 years), climate models that are predicated on the assumption that […]
Posted in Antarctic, Glaciers, Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 7. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterYet another scientific paper presents evidence that the Arctic region was warmer than recent decades during the 1930s, leading scientists to conclude there is “still-insufficient knowledge of the mechanisms governing the Arctic Climate System.” Image Source: Araźny et al., 2019 Araźny et al., 2019 A comparison of bioclimatic conditions on Franz Josef Land (the […]
Posted in Arctic, Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 4. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAccording to a comprehensive (305 locations in 10 countries) 2018 study, deaths attributed to extreme heat have been stable to declining in recent decades (1985-2012). In contrast, deaths attributed to cold weather show “no clear patterns” – neither increasing or decreasing. Image Source: Vicedo-Cabrera et al., 2018 Across the globe, recent cold spells have […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 28. February 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAs a continuation of the IPCC’s observation (2013) that there has been no detectable trend in storm and cyclone intensification (or extreme weather in general) that can be clearly linked to rising anthropogenic CO2 emissions, a new paper documents the rapid decline in eddy kinetic (EKE) and mean available potential energy (MAPE) since the […]
Posted in Hurricanes/Tornados, Weather |
By Kenneth Richard on 25. February 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterZhokhov Island in the Siberian High Arctic today exhibits inhospitably severe climate conditions, desolate tundra, and year-round pack ice in the surrounding sea. During the Early Holocene this same island was warm enough to host waterfowl species, birch trees, and year-round human residents who hunted polar bear and reindeer. Image Source: Makeyev et al., […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 21. February 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterScientists identify more regions of the world that haven’t warmed up – and have, instead, cooled – since the early 1900s. Kutta and Hubbart, 2019 Observed climatic changes in West Virginia and opportunities for agriculture “Between 1900 and 2016, climatic trends were characterized by significant reductions in the maximum temperatures (−0.78°C/century; p = 0.001), significant […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 18. February 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitter I. According to the IPCC, the true manifestation of “global warming” can almost exclusively (93%) be found in the oceans. The surface air or atmospheric heat changes amount to just 1% of the “global warming” representation. Image Source: IPCC (2013) II. In the first 2000 meters of the global ocean, there has only […]
Posted in Natural Variability, Oceans, Paleo-climatology, Scepticism |
By Kenneth Richard on 14. February 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA modest long-term (1800s-present) declining trend in ocean pH values predominantly occurred prior to 1930, or before anthropogenic CO2 emissions began rising precipitously. Since 1930, seawater pH trends have risen slightly, meaning sharply rising CO2 has been coincident with less, not more, ocean “acidification”. Image Source (lower graph): Wei et al., 2015 Is “acidification” occurring […]
Posted in Ocean Acidification |
By Kenneth Richard on 11. February 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterIs Greenland’s Ice Disappearing? Image Source: AVweb, August 2018 I. Emergency Landing In 1942 In July, 1942, a squadron of six U.S. P-38 fighter planes and two B-17 bombers embarked on a flight mission to England when they were suddenly bombarded by severe weather. All 8 planes were consequently forced to emergency-land on the […]
Posted in Arctic, Glaciers |
By Kenneth Richard on 7. February 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAccording to a new paper (Oliver and Terry, 2019) published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, oyster remains have been found encrusted in rock 2.5 to 3.8 meters above the present mean sea level. This fossilized evidence dates to ~6000 to years ago, a period when the Earth’s surface temperatures were 4-6°C warmer than they are today. Image(s) Source: […]
Posted in Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 4. February 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAntarctica Has Not Warmed In Over A Century Natural Variability – Not Humans – Drives Ice Melt The most recent mass media contribution to the canon of climate alarmism referenced a study claiming that “climate change” (i.e., human-caused deep ocean warming) was responsible for the Amundsen Sea’s (West Antarctica) “rapid melting” of the Thwaites […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 31. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterModern Climate Warming Is Not Dangerous, Unprecedented, Globally Pervasive Image Source: Lansner and Pepke Pedersen, 2018 Image Source: ScienceDaily.com The Hockey Stick Fails The PAGES 2k Consortium (2013) attempted to compile an unprecedented-looking hockey-stick-shaped Holocene reconstruction. Instead, it has withered under scrutiny. Analysis of the PAGES 2k data clearly shows that 20th century warmth is merely a […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Hockey Team |
By Kenneth Richard on 28. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitter“As the sea levels have been oscillating, but not accelerating, in the long-term-trend tide gauges of Japan since the start of the 20th century, the same as all the other long-term-trend tide gauges of the world, it is increasingly unacceptable to base coastal management on alarmist predictions that are not supported by measurements.” – […]
Posted in Alarmism, Natural Variability, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 24. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitter“It is not possible to reliably support the view of the presence of global warming in the sense of an enhanced greenhouse effect due to human activities.” — Drs. Varotsos and Efstathiou, 2019 Image Source: Varotsos and Efstathiou, 2019 In a step-by-step dissection of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) hypothesis, or “greenhouse hypothesis of global […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Models |
By Kenneth Richard on 21. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterFour climate scientists assert (1) the last ~130 years of temperature changes fit “perfectly” into statistical indices of natural variation, and (2) a long-term deep cooling of the Earth system has recently commenced. Image Source: Mao et al., 2019 An analysis published in the journal Atmospheric and Climate Sciences by 4 climate scientists reveals the 1880-2013 […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 17. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterRapid sea level rise was supposed to shrink Earth’s coasts. It hasn’t. Image Source: Mörner, 2018 “Over the past decades, atoll islands exhibited no widespread sign of physical destabilization in the face of sea-level rise. 88.6% of islands were either stable or increased in area, while only 11.4% contracted. It is noteworthy that no island […]
Posted in Alarmism, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 14. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThere are large regions of the globe where observations indicate there has been no warming (even cooling) during the last decades to century. Climate models rooted in the assumption that fossil fuel emissions drive dangerous warming dismiss these modeling failures and project temperature increases of 3° – 10°C by 2100 for these same regions […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Models |
By Kenneth Richard on 10. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAuthors of a new paper published in the journal Science (Gebbie and Huybers, 2019) insist “the deep ocean ultimately plays a leading role in the planetary heat budget.” The global deep ocean has much less heat today than it had during both the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. Image Source: Gebbie and Huybers, […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 7. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterNBC News’ Chuck Todd recently asserted that we humans can control the climate and the frequency or intensity of extreme weather events (hurricanes, floods, droughts) and disasters (wildfires) with our CO2 emissions. He has declared the science is “settled” on this point and therefore no “denier” is allowed on his Meet the Press program. […]
Posted in Activism, Alarmism, Climate Politics, We're To Blame |
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