By Kenneth Richard on 28. September 2023
CO2 “only affects a small range of long-wave re-radiation from the surface of the Earth,” and there “seems to be no connection between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the Earth.” − Harris, 2023 New research published in the MDPI journal atmosphere by Dr. Stuart A. Harris asserts past and modern climate changes are natural […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 11. September 2023
“In a modified experiment, where IR emission from the heating source is present, no heating but a slight cooling of a black object is found when air is replaced by CO2. The modified experimental situation is also more like the earth/atmosphere situation.” – Seim and Olsen, 2023 Scientists Hermann Harde and Michael Schnell published a […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 20. July 2023
“Climatological models…pretend on a long-term description of the atmosphere…ignoring physical laws in climatology.” – Smirnov, 2022 “[T]he Kirchoff law is neglected in climatological models. This leads to a large mistake in prediction of the global temperature change.” “[D]oubling the concentration of atmospheric CO2 molecules leads to the following change of the global temperature T = […]
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By P Gosselin on 15. July 2023
Politicians have gotten in the bad habit of blaming everything on climate change “to shift responsibility away from themselves”. Expert: Climate change is not to blame for everything Hat-tip: Klimanachrichten here We have to wonder what attacks Friederike Otto will face from the social media. The climate attribution researcher is quoted in an article at […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 10. July 2023
Over the last 210 million years [Myr], (a) CO2 falls as temperatures rise (negative correlation, r = -0.76), (b) mass extinctions occur 4.08 Myr after CO2 peaks, and (c) global warming/CO2 radiative forcing “did not cause extinction of biodiversity.” A new study has been published in Earth’s Future journal that supplements a 2017 analysis of […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology
By Kenneth Richard on 3. July 2023
Per a new study, million-year variations in cosmic rays (CR) modulating cloud cover, which, in turn, drives variations in incident solar radiation on short- and long-term timescales, is the dominant cause of million-year climate variations, explaining all 7 Ice Age epochs over the Phanerozoic. In contrast, declining CO2 and rising solar luminosity over the last […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 9. June 2023
The higher temperatures are clearly attributable to a reduction in cloud cover, not CO2 The DIY way to demystify “greenhouse gas” claims Rapidly rising temperatures and drought in parts of central Europe are caused by a long-term trend of receding cloud cover. Fewer clouds result in increased solar energy influx and reduced downpour. Both factors […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 8. May 2023
Data analysis again reveals the increase in absorbed shortwave forcing has been driving modern climate change since the 1970s. CO2 changes are more of an effect than a cause of temperature increases. Scientists have for years been pointing to the causality sequencing problem inherent in the claim that CO2 is the driver of temperature changes. […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 13. April 2023
The global mean surface temperature (GMST) effects of a 1 W/m² radiative forcing, or positive/negative energy imbalance, has been obtained from the observations from the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption. CO2’s climate effects are claimed to be many times larger than observations indicate. The observed climate sensitivity (CS) to a perturbation to Earth’s Energy Imbalance (EEI) […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 10. April 2023
In the satellite era scientists have continued to observe the Earth’s total greenhouse effect (which includes effects from greenhouse gases and clouds) exerting an overall negative impact (cooling) on surface temperatures since the 1980s. This rules out both CO2 and an enhanced greenhouse effect as drivers of global warming. Earth’s total greenhouse effect impact on […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. March 2023
Surface air CO2 concentrations vary by 100s to 1,000s of ppm within a span of hours to days or weeks across the natural world. The observational evidence suggests these variations are neither driving or even causing temperature changes. According to recent field research (Mungai, 2021) conducted in Kenya, the observed CO2 concentrations in the atmospheric […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 12. January 2023
It is claimed that an additional 60-75 W/m² of absorbed solar radiation can only produce a climate warming of 4-5°C. Doubling CO2 since pre-industrial times (280 to 560 ppm) is said to result in an additional 3.7 W/m² increase in radiative forcing. However, it is inconsistently claimed this ~20 times smaller value will also lead […]
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