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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By Kenneth Richard on 2. January 2023
The modern notion that human CO2 emissions are equivalent to a “deadly poison” may one day be viewed as “the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world.” In a new paper published in the Journal of Sustainable Development, Manheimer (2022) summarizes some of the evidence for the lack of correlation between CO2 and […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology, Scepticism |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. December 2022
The conceptualization of a 33 K warmer Earth due to the presence of water vapor and CO2 (greenhouse gases) in the atmosphere is wholly based on the unobserved and unknown, or assumptions about what an imaginary world with no atmosphere would be like. It is widely believed that we can determine the effective radiating temperature, […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 22. December 2022
The longstanding claim is CO2 (greenhouse gas) top-of-atmosphere (TOA) forcing drives climate change. But it is too cold at the TOA for CO2 (or any greenhouse gas) to exist. Image Sources: Schneider et al., 2020, NASA, UCAR, CGA TOA greenhouse gas forcing is a fundamental tenet of the CO2-drives-climate-change belief system. And yet the “global-mean […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 8. December 2022
Of the warming trends in Poland and greater Europe, “only about 4–5% are explained by an increase in CO2 concentration.” – Marsz et al., 2022 Internal changes to the thermal structure of the ocean transmit decadal-scale changes in the atmospheric circulation and consequent surface air temperature via its modulating impact on the variation in the […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 28. November 2022
The warming “predicted from climate models” has not materialized in yet another temperature record. In an “assessment of the performance of the climate projections” for all of Italy over the 1948-2021 period, we can observe no rising temperature trend (shown in green) that could align with the rise in CO2 emissions per a new study. […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Models |
By Kenneth Richard on 24. November 2022
German physicists claim to have experimentally demonstrated the greenhouse effect from greenhouse gases like CO2 and CH4 is a real phenomenon, but assess the climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 with feedbacks is “only ECS = 0.7°C … 5.4x lower than the mean value of CMIP6 with ECS = 3.78°C.” “The derived forcing for […]
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By P Gosselin on 11. November 2022
Solution: Increase Ocean Evaporation (<4% of CO2 Reduction Cost) Guest poet by David R. Motes, November 10, 2022 Climate change is real and cycles over Earth’s geologic history. We are in a global warming trend for the past 140+ years. Contrary to prevailing climate theory, this man-made warming trend is primarily driven by a CO2 […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 7. November 2022
Annual carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) change rates lag behind changes in sea ice extent by 7 months and 5 months, respectively. This robust correlation is consistent with the conclusion that CO2 (and CH4) changes are responsive to temperature, not the other way around. It is commonly believed that the annual “squiggle” of the […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 17. October 2022
“The cause of global warming is still under debate.” – Choi and Manousiouthakis, 2022 Radiative models estimating the temperature effects of increasing CO2 to 420 ppm indicate 0.64°C of the alleged 1.2°C warming since the 19th century could be explained by CO2 increases. Image Source: Choi and Manousiouthakis, 2022 A 2013 study suggested only 0.26°C […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 6. October 2022
Another new study indicates the assumption CO2’s climate impact is not overshadowed by the water vapor impact (because they do not overlap spectrally) is inconsistent with NASA and HITRAN observations. Smirnov, 2022 “Changes in the Earth’s atmosphere that affect its energetics are analyzed. The results of NASA programs on carbon dioxide monitoring in the atmosphere […]
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By P Gosselin on 4. October 2022
Animal rights activist group PETA is now calling on women to strike on sex with meat-eating men. PETA’s Elena Waldman really can’t stand men having a good time at the weekend barbecue. She writes: “We all know them, the suburban men with beer bottles in hand, brandishing tongs while cooking sausages on their expensive gas […]
Posted in Activism, CO2 and GHG, Nutrition |
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