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By Kenneth Richard on 22. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Earth has been rapidly greening in recent decades, and CO2 fertilization may explain 70% of the trend (Zhu et al., 2016). A new study finds models have significantly underestimated the greening effect of rising CO2. Image Source: Winkler et al., 2019 CO2 is a pollutant? In recent years, carbon dioxide (CO2), an essential […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 18. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAccording to the calculations of Dr. James Hansen, the radiative influence derived from the increase in CO2 during the last deglaciation was so negligible that it equated to “a third of energy required to power a honey bee in flight” (Ellis and Palmer, 2016). Image Source: Ellis and Palmer, 2016 Between about 22,000 and […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 28. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Greenhouse Effect On Hiatus An unheralded but significant 2016 scientific paper – “A Hiatus of the Greenhouse Effect” – is now publicly available. Scientists have found the greenhouse effect’s (GHE) influence on planetary temperatures went on “hiatus” during 1992-2014. The estimated GHE radiative influence for these 22 years was a slightly negative -0.04 […]
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By P Gosselin on 15. March 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Kirye (in Tokyo) On March 13, Japan’s Honmaddeka TV spoke about THE SANKEI NEWS, which reported there is a possibility that people will become less able to see cherry blossoms in full bloom in the near future. Readers may surmise the culprit for this themselves. Biologist Dr. Kiyohiko Ikeda tells audience on Honmaddeka […]
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By P Gosselin on 26. February 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterAt the February 20th hearing of the Bundestag Environment Committee on CO2 reduction targets for heavy commercial vehicles, Prof. Horst-Joachim Lüdecke, EIKE press spokesman (science), urged that reasonableness be maintained in climate policy. Six experts were asked to provide their assessment before the Committee. By EIKE editorial staff / Pierre Gosselin Source: Image cropped […]
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By P Gosselin on 20. February 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterOn Sunday I wrote here how any warmth that gets found anywhere on the globe almost always gets blamed on heat supposedly getting trapped by rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations (due to man). Of course here all other powerful, real factors such as solar and oceanic cycles get ignored. Yet in the case of Japan, we […]
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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 P Gosselin on 19. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe days of unlimited speed on Germany’s famed autobahns are indisputably coming to an end – probably soon. And thank God! Hat-tip: achgut.com. The online Mitteldeutche Zeitung MZ) here reports the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM) is pushing to impose a speed limit on German autobahns, the motorways where drivers in certain stretches […]
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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 […]
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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 3. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn 2018, over 500 scientific papers were published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or that otherwise serve to question the efficacy of climate models or the related “consensus” positions commonly endorsed by policymakers and mainstream media sources. More than 500 scientific papers published […]
Posted in Alarmism, Alternative Energy, Antarctic, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Glaciers, Hockey Team, Hurricanes/Tornados, Natural Variability, Ocean Acidification, Paleo-climatology, Scepticism, Sea Ice, Sea Levels, Solar Sciences, Tectonics/Volcanoes, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth, Wind Power |
By Kenneth Richard on 31. December 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterClimate models postulate that increasing CO2 concentrations will intensify the Earth’s water cycle. This intensification is believed to eventually result in dangerous (3°C and up) global warming. Observational evidence has thus far falsified these IPCC-endorsed claims. Image Source: IPCC WG1 According to climate models, water vapor and precipitation trends were supposed to have been […]
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By P Gosselin on 19. December 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterJochem Marotzke, Director of Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPIM), says we would have to wait 20 years before seeing any impact on climate from CO2 reductions, based on model simulations. Climate variability prevails… ===================================================== Reduction of CO2 emissions possibly would have no effect on climate over the coming 20 years By Die […]
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By P Gosselin on 15. December 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) here posted a video of excerpts of a German Parliamentary hearing on climate change in the German Federal Parliament featuring Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) scientist Anders Levermann and atmospheric physicist Prof. Nir Shaviv of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The hearing was to look […]
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By P Gosselin on 27. November 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterAt Weatherbell’s most recent Saturday Summary, veteran meteorologist Joe Bastardi presents the main reason why he believes the globe has been warming over the past decades: more water vapor in the atmosphere due to natural ocean cycles. Panic time for Arctic sea ice doomsayers? The former Accuweather meteorologist explains why there’s a good chance […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 12. November 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterNinety-nine percent of the Earth’s atmosphere is made up of two gases: (78%) nitrogen (N2) and (21%) oxygen (O2). Neither is considered an IR-absorbing/re-emitting greenhouse gas (GHG) like (0.041%) carbon dioxide (CO2) or (0.00018%) methane (CH4). Utilizing real-world Raman spectrometer data, an independent researcher from Sweden has found both N2 and O2 do indeed […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 29. October 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Paris Paradox: Sign the Agreement, Increase Emissions Reject the Agreement, Reduce Emissions China: Emissions Reduction Symbolism Over Substance A little over a year ago, China was hailed as a country that was “stepping up” to combat climate change. After all, the country had agreed to sign on to the Paris climate accord and […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 15. October 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn the first 9½ months of 2018, 368 scientific papers have been published that cast doubt on the position that anthropogenic CO2 emissions function as the climate’s fundamental control knob…or that otherwise serve to question the efficacy of climate models or the related “consensus” positions commonly endorsed by policymakers and mainstream media sources. These […]
Posted in Alarmism, Antarctic, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Glaciers, Hockey Team, Hurricanes/Tornados, Medieval Warm Period, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Ocean Acidification, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice, Sea Levels, Solar |
By Kenneth Richard on 24. September 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterIn an interview at the Porto Climate Conference earlier this month, Dr. Karl Zeller provided a brief overview of the theory he and Dr. Ned Nikolov developed. The model uses empirical NASA data to quantify the surface temperature of “all the planets across our solar system” precisely and accurately by using two values only: (1) distance from […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Natural Variability, Scepticism, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 19. September 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe German ADAC association, the equivalent of America’s AAA, carried a CO2 comparison for a variety e-autos and combustion engine cars. The results were very surprising, says German magazine Autobild here. Today electric cars are being pushed as a clean and environmentally friendly alternative, while diesel and gasoline burning engines are being villainized as […]
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