By Kenneth Richard on 17. June 2021
It has been assumed COVID lockdowns and their associated reductions in human CO2 emissions would be a “step in the right direction” with regard to climate change mitigation. But a new study finds the particulate (aerosol) pollution reductions from less industrial and transportation activity in Europe during the months of March to May (2020) actually […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 4. June 2021
It used to be thought that women were “indeed responsible for the weather” (extreme temperatures, storms, “unnatural” precipitation, etc.). Those women thought guilty of “weather-making” were imprisoned and burned at the stake. Mainstream science has advanced since then. Now it’s believed men (and children) also cause extreme weather and climate. Believing CO2 is the climate […]
Posted in Alarmism, CO2 and GHG, We're To Blame |
By Kenneth Richard on 31. May 2021
A French physicist recounts the evidence affirming temperature changes are the cause of changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations throughout the last 423 thousand years of the ice core record, thus invalidating the claims of more than a negligible role for CO2 in affecting climate changes. In a new study Dr. Pascal Richet re-emphasizes the “most […]
Posted in Antarctic, Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 24. May 2021
A professor of hydrology from the University of Athens eviscerates the “naïve” paradigm that says the natural state of Earth’s climate is constancy and stability, only changing when an “external agent” (i.e., a rapid increase in fossil fuel emissions ) acts upon it. Instead, (a) water is the main element driving climate and (b) the […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, Natural Variability, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 13. May 2021
Fossilized evidence of temperate rainforests only hundreds of kilometers from Antarctica’s South Pole (82°S) has been uncovered. It suggests the warmest mean month was 18.5°C about 90 million years ago. Today the warmest mean month for this location is about -20°C. Image Source: EarthSky (press release for Klages et al., 2020) Despite rapidly rising CO2 […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology |
By P Gosselin on 7. May 2021
Almost everyone with even just a fraction of a science education knows Co2 is fertilizer to vegetation and that the added 100 or so ppm in our atmosphere over the past decades have been beneficial to plant growth and thus led to more greening of the continents. Yet, some alarmists still sniff at this fact, […]
Posted in Agriculture, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 6. May 2021
It’s considered canonical that global-scale atmospheric levels of CO2 from thousands of years ago can be precisely discerned just by examining air bubbles in ancient snow and ice from Antarctica. But an examination of the CO2 levels in modern snow and ice shows there are gigantic discrepancies between the measurements of CO2 in ice versus […]
Posted in Antarctic, CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology, Scepticism |
By Kenneth Richard on 19. April 2021
NASA tries to appeal to kids in claiming greenhouse gas molecules are “tiny heaters” that act “exactly how” the windows that prevent heat escape in a real greenhouse work. Observations show this is propaganda. Image Source: NASA’s Climate Kids and Earth Observatory In claiming superhero-like greenhouse gases such as CO2 and water vapor act “exactly how” […]
Posted in Agriculture, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Emissions |
By Kenneth Richard on 1. April 2021
Two University of Oslo physicists designed several variations of a tabletop experiment trying to confirm the IPCC’s claimed CO2-forcing capacity. Instead they found (a) 100% (1,000,000 ppm) CO2 “heats” air to about the same temperature that non-greenhouse gases (N2, O2 [air], Ar) do, and (b) no significant temperature difference in containers with 0.04% vs. 100% […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 28. February 2021
NASA earth radiation budget measurement from satellite data don’t support global warming claims. Analyst blogger Zoe Phin downloaded and analyzed 10 gigabytes of NASA instrumental data on the earth’s radiation budget (ERB) fully covering the years 2003 to 2019 [site] [data]. High clouds should be warming the planet, and low clouds cooling it, NASA says. […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Misc. |
By Kenneth Richard on 8. February 2021
CO2’s impact on the total net greenhouse effect (GHE) or longwave (LW) forcing trend has been offset by the dominant impact of cloud cover since the 1980s. It is now widely accepted that changes in clouds, naturally driven by changes in atmospheric circulation, “may be the most important parameter controlling the radiation budget, and, hence, […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, Solar Sciences |
By P Gosselin on 5. February 2021
Climate researcher, geologist, Patrice Poyet has released a new e-book: The Rational Climate e-Book: Cooler is Riskier. The Sorry State of Climate Science and Policies. This is an outstanding reference. Using the table of contents the reader can conveniently look up the topic that’s of interest. The ebook has been downloaded over 10,000 times so […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, IPCC, Models, Scepticism |
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