By Kenneth Richard on 16. February 2026
For the last 3000 years the Beaufort Sea region has had “permanent sea ice.” According to a new study, there was “no sea ice” in the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea from 11,700 to 8200 years ago. During this period, summer sea surface temperatures (SSTs) averaged ~7°C, varying up to 9.6°C. “The Early Holocene (11.7−8.2 ka) is […]
Posted in Arctic, Cryosphere, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice
By Kenneth Richard on 11. February 2026
“D–O signals [10-16°C warming events within decades to centuries] are not just seen in Greenland – they are registered globally.” – Liu et al., 2026 From 57,000 to 29,000 years ago, with Last Glacial atmospheric CO2 concentrations flatlining at ~200 ppm, there were 11 instances when Greenland abruptly warmed by 10-16°C within a span of […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 6. February 2026
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has for decades advocated net-zero governmental policies to reduce anthropogenic CO2 (aCO2) emissions. This advocacy is rooted in the non-physical assumption that aCO2 molecules are special, as they remain in the atmosphere for decades to centuries. Proponents of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) narrative even claim aCO2 removal […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions |
By Kenneth Richard on 3. February 2026
“[S]ea ice loss did not lead to a reduction in BC [body condition] among adult BS [Barents Sea] bears. Rather, after around 2000…both males and females of different reproductive categories increased in body condition for the following two decades.” — Aars et al., 2026 Thick sea ice is not a necessary condition for polar bear […]
Posted in Arctic, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. January 2026
Modern climate science is constructed on a foundation of belief. Svante Arrhenius is known as the “godfather” of the CO2 greenhouse effect. Today’s climate models are still based on his 1896 thought-experiment calculations of CO2’s imagined capacity to warm Earth’s surface (71% water) out of a frozen solid state by tens of degrees. His one-dimensional […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. January 2026
Decades of satellite data confirm the globe has been substantially greening – as defined by rising Leaf Area Index (LAI) values – since the 1980s. The CO2 fertilization effect (CFE) enhances plant productivity via improved light use efficiency and water use efficiency. In other words, with elevated CO2, photosynthesis rates are not as hampered as […]
Posted in CO2 Greens the Earth, Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. January 2026
“[D]uring the last 6 ky, repeated, meter-scale, rapid (<300 y) rises alternated with meter-scale falls…interpreted as global.” – Higgs, 2026 A new study uses excavation evidence (wall ruins, coins, pottery) to suggest sea level rise (SLR) rates reached ~4 m in ~70 yrs (60 mm/year, or 20 times the modern rate of 3 mm/year) from […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 19. January 2026
Across the globe, vermetid gastropods (shelled snails, or molluscs) are a “critical paleo-sea level indicator” for ancient coastline reconstructions (Angulo et al., 2026). Along the Brazilian coast, vermetid shell radiocarbon ages indicate the relative sea level (RSL) was “more than 2 m above present” between 6000 and 7000 years ago. (The charts shown in the […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. January 2026
“Remarkably, we found here that species-level extinctions related to climate change have not significantly increased over the last approximately 200 years.” – Saban and Wiens, 2025 According to many recent studies intended to alarm the public about the consequences of tenths-of-a-degree warmer surface air temperatures, “20-30% of all plant and animal species may be lost […]
Posted in Alarmism, Climate Politics, Green Follies |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. January 2026
A large portion of the Greenland ice sheet that is today over 500 m thick did not exist during the Early to Mid Holocene. Prudhoe Dome (PD), a 2500 km² section of northwestern Greenland’s ice sheet (GIS), is today 500 to 600 m thick (Walcott-George et al., 2026). Approximately 6000-8000 years ago, or when atmospheric […]
Posted in Arctic, Cryosphere, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 7. January 2026
CO2’s role in climate change is too small to detect in error-ridden attribution measurements. Downward longwave radiation (DWLWR) at the ocean surface “is among the most important components of the heat flux across the ocean-atmosphere interface, which, in turn, shapes the climate state of both the atmosphere and the ocean” (Peng et al., 2025). According […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, Uncertainty Error |
By Kenneth Richard on 2. January 2026
“The remaining 98.43% of climate forcing arises from sources other than anthropogenic CO2.” – Davis, 2025 When it comes to climate forcing, “atmospheric CO2 plays a minor and diminishing role in forcing contemporary global warming.” Key quotes from Davis, 2025 “As a result of today’s higher concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere, the radiative forcing […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
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