By Kenneth Richard on 6. August 2024
Scientists do not even mention CO2 concentration changes as a factor in ocean warming. A new study reveals the limit of the greenhouse gas-induced longwave radiative impact extends only to the ~10 μm (0.01 mm) skin layer – the ocean-air interface – and no deeper. Determining the sea surface temperature (SST) variation at this skin […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 1. August 2024
“…higher atmospheric CO2…triggers…increased vegetation production and a greener landscape” – Chen et al., 2024 Plant transpiration is vital to plant growth and terrestrial ecosystems. The rising CO2 trend over the last 30 years (1990-2020) has been the primary driver of planetary greening, or increases in Leaf Area Index (LAI). The greening, in turn, is predominantly […]
Posted in CO2 Greens the Earth |
By Kenneth Richard on 29. July 2024
A new study reports Estonia’s climate was 2-3°C warmer and sea levels were 10-20 m higher ~7,300 years ago. Comparing detailed maps from 1915 and 1904 to 2004 and 2021 aerial images reveals the sea waters have receded from the coasts of Estonia so acutely that lagoons are fast disappearing, islands are being transformed into […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 22. July 2024
There were millennia during the past glacial (when CO2 levels were under 200 ppm) that were as warm or warmer than today. Four central Europe reconstructions, using collected evidence from disparate biomarkers, indicate there were periods (for example, 54,000 to 51,000 years ago, the Bølling–Allerød interstadial, 14,700 years ago) during the last glacial when temperatures […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 18. July 2024
Global warming was supposed to open up Arctic region shipping routes, making the Northwest Passage easier and less risky to traverse. Per a new study, the opposite has happened. As we reported earlier this year, while a declining trend in Arctic sea ice was observed from the 1990s to 2007, there has been no trend […]
Posted in Arctic, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. July 2024
Popular claims that CO2 changes drive temperature changes currently or throughout the distant past “are based on imagination and climate models full of assumptions.” A comprehensive new study details a stochastic assessment determination of the sequencing of CO2 variations versus temperature variations since the 1950s, over the last 2,000 years (the Common Era), and throughout […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. July 2024
A new study comprehensively eviscerates a 57-year-old modeling paper upon which nearly the entirety of the IPCC’s CO2-drives-climate paradigm is based. Dr. Roy Clark has published a new 73-page study that rips apart the Manabe and Wetherald (1967) paper (MW67) that effectively hatched the IPCC-popularized concepts of CO2 climate sensitivity, radiative forcing, and positive/negative feedbacks […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 8. July 2024
Instead, warmth and elevated CO2 are a boon for humanity. A new peer-reviewed paper published in The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (May and Crok, 2024) counters the prevailing “wisdom” that says a warmer climate and greener vegetation are problematic. The authors detail the horrors of the much colder Little Ice Age that destroyed […]
Posted in Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth |
By Kenneth Richard on 5. July 2024
Scientists continue to uncover evidence of a much warmer Early Holocene, when CO2 hovered near 260 ppm. According to a new study, an ancient 42-centimeter long oyster shell has been found ~20 km inland from today’s Taipei Basin (Taiwan) coast. Extensive isotope analyses (69 of them) of a 5 cm section of the shell reveal […]
Posted in Oceans, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 1. July 2024
Scientists attempt to explain why approximately one-third of the global ocean’s sea surface temperatures cooled since the late 1970s. The 50-70°S Southern Ocean and 160°W to 80°W southeastern Pacific cooled by about -0.35°C (-0.117°C per decade) from 1979-2013 (Yao et al., 2024). (The cooling also continued to 2019, but the authors chose to use 2013 […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, Cooling/Temperature, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. June 2024
A new study documents the detrimental effects linked to living in close proximity to wind turbines. Living within 10 km of a wind turbine may be associated with serious consequences to the health and safety of people and animals. Examples include: • limb deformities in horses • birth defects (born with missing eyes and tails) […]
Posted in Wind Power |
By Kenneth Richard on 24. June 2024
Modeling the main factors driving climate is riddled with and precluded by observational error. Some scientists now acknowledge this. Clouds are a main factor – even the “most important factor” – controlling changes in the Earth’s radiation budget, or climate (Sfîcă et al., 2021, Lenaerts et al., 2020). Image Source: Sfîcă et al., 2021 and […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, Uncertainty Error |
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