By Kenneth Richard on 30. November 2020
Scientists report they must “exclude atmospheric pCO2 as a direct driver of SST variations” after finding the Atlantic Ocean’s surface was multiple degrees warmer than today from 90 to 20 thousand years ago, or when CO2 concentrations hovered below 200 ppm. Another new study (Hou et al., 2020) casts even more doubt on the contention […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 2. November 2020
Scientists continue to document severe discrepancies between climate modeling and observations in newly published scientific papers. 1. Models run too hot and yield “unrealistically high” estimates of the climate’s sensitivity to CO2 forcing. McKitrick and Christy, 2020 “All model runs warmed faster than observations in the lower troposphere and midtroposphere, in the tropics, and globally. […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Models |
By P Gosselin on 29. September 2020
Just recently Anthony Watts posted an article on wildfires penned by Paul Homewood. Lately alarmists have been blaming the active forest fire season on global warming. They warn that warmer temperatures will lead to more wildfires. Is it so? First it’s important to note that warmer temperatures don’t necessarily lead to more drought and wild […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Drought and Deserts, Fire |
By Kenneth Richard on 14. September 2020
Evidence that temperature swings of ±17°C occurred during the end-Triassic mass extinction event imply that CO2 would have needed to increase 8- to 1,024-fold (3 to 10 doublings) to have induced that magnitude of temperature change. It didn’t. Evidence from a new study (Petryshyn et al., 2020) suggests “repeated” temperature swings of 16-17°C occurred in […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 14. August 2020
In an interview with flagship daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ here), Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPIM) Director Dr. Jochen Marotzke said predicting how many degrees of warming we need to prepare for was like reading tea leaves and that he is not worried about “climate tipping points”. He also spoke of the wide disagreement among […]
Posted in Alarmism, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, Models |
By P Gosselin on 5. July 2020
A commentary titled “‘Just don’t panic – also about climate change’” by Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt appearing at German site achgut.com tells us there’s no need for panic with respect to climate change, as leading scientists dial back earlier doomsday projections. Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt. Image: GWPF No warming until 2050 Vahrenholt claims a negative Atlantic oscillation […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 15. June 2020
In a new paper, atmospheric physicist Dr. Richard Lindzen summarizes the “implausible” claims today’s proponents of dangerous anthropogenic global warming espouse. Dr. Richard Lindzen retired several years ago, and yet his immense contribution to the atmospheric sciences lives on. His research is still cited about 600 times per year. Lindzen recently published another scientific paper […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Scepticism |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. April 2020
The radiative impact of CO2 on the ocean’s thermal skin layer cannot penetrate deeper than 0.01 mm. This effectively eliminates the potential for CO2 to be a driver of global warming. According to mainstream anthropogenic global warming (AGW) science, 93% of global warming is manifested in the 0-2000 m oceans. Just 1% of global warming […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, IPCC, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. March 2020
Clouds regulate Earth’s climate. New studies suggest uncertainty in clouds’ surface radiative effects reach 17.4 W/m² per year (±8.7 W/m²/year). Total CO2 climate forcing is said to be just 0.02 W/m² per year. The difference in these magnitudes preclude detection of a CO2 signal in climate forcing. According to Feldman et al. (2015), a 2 […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 5. March 2020
In yet another new paper (Drotos et al., 2020), scientists determine the climate sensitivity to CO2 is “practically zero” the more the concentration rises. A ~4450 ppm CO2 concentration has cooler climates than observed in the pre-industrial (278 ppm) era. Why? A self-amplifying cloud feedback mechanism cools the Earth by magnitudes “as large as 10 […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 20. February 2020
An observational study analyzing the effects of 300, 480, 3200, 7500, and 16,900 ppm CO2 on atmospheric (and soil) temperatures has determined “temperatures of atmospheric air in mesocosms [controlled outdoor experiments] with substantially higher CO2 concentration (ranging from 3200 ppm to 16900 ppm) were lower than that with the lower CO2 concentration (480 ppm)”. Image […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Emissions |
By Kenneth Richard on 13. February 2020
A new study (Stallinga, 2020) assesses the climate sensitivity to rising CO2 concentrations is just 0.0014°C per ppm. Dr. Peter Stallinga has published a comprehensive analysis of the Earth’s greenhouse effect. He finds an inconsequential role for CO2. Doubling CO2 from 350 to 700 ppm yields a warming of less than 0.5°C (500 mK). Feedbacks […]
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