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By Kenneth Richard on 24. March 2026
Natural changes in cloud albedo, absorbed shortwave forcing (ASW), and solar activity (TSI, total solar irradiance) are “the dominant factors driving climate change.” Dai Ato, an independent researcher from Japan, has completed a comprehensive regression analysis (Ato, 2026) using key climate variables and published the results in the Science of Climate Change journal. Using widely […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, Water Vapor |
By P Gosselin on 18. February 2026
Euronews.com here reports that coal is expanding rapidly as again more than fifty large coal-fired power plant units were connected to the grid worldwide. Coal power plants rapidly came on online worldwide. Symbol image, created by Grok AI China is showing less concern for CO2’s possible impact on the climate and went ahead and commissioned […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, CO2 and GHG, Emissions, Pollution |
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 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 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 |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. December 2025
Global warming was significantly more pronounced in the early 20th century and prior to 1940, or back when CO2 emissions rates were 8.6 times lower than they were from 1983-2024. A new study using 60 million daily maximum/minimum temperatures from 1600 global weather stations across 29 countries indicates the globe warmed at a rate of […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature |
By Kenneth Richard on 5. December 2025
“[T]he fraction of [fossil] fuel-related emissions still remaining in the air (about 23 ppm out of 425 ppm at the end of 2024) cannot have any climatic effect.” – Veyres et al., 2025 A few years ago Dr. Koutsoyiannis and colleagues used equations associated with the chemistry of temperature-driven organic respiration to demonstrate that, since […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions, Natural Variability, Oceans |
By P Gosselin on 16. November 2025
New study: CO2 levels at least equivalent to today’s level of approximately 420 ppm would have been necessary 10,000 years ago. Germany’s online Report24 posted an article titled: “Why Ice Cores Lie: High CO2 Levels Characterized Early Times“. The article summarizes the study by Frans J. Schrijver titled “Historical CO2 Levels in periods of global […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 13. November 2025
It is widely acknowledged that the enhanced CO2 fertilization effect due to the modern rise in atmospheric CO2 is the predominant driver of the dramatic increases in global greening, or “gross primary production” (GPP). Global greening attribution estimates for CO2 fertilization range from 70% (Zhu et al., 2016) to 86% (Haverd et al., 2020). As […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, CO2 Greens the Earth, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 12. November 2025
By Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (in latest newsletter) Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt, image: X. Cooling trend continues The global temperature did not change in October compared to August. The cooling trend remains intact. The American National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) foresees a cool LA NINA developing in the Pacific this winter, which will lead to a […]
Posted in Alarmism, Climate Politics, CO2 and GHG, IPCC |
By P Gosselin on 26. October 2025
Recent warming is mostly due to natural climate factors…only 1/3 is attributable to the rising GHG concentrations. CO2’s impact on warming is likely wildly overstated. A recent paper by Ad Huijser, “Global Warming and the ‘impossible’ Radiation Imbalance,” published in Science of Climate Change, presents a detailed analysis that challenges the widely held assumption that rising greenhouse […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Solar |
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