By P Gosselin on 29. December 2024
Citing Bloomberg, Blackout News here reports that “the use of coal continues to rise sharply.” This suggests that the hundreds of billions invested annually in green energies are unable to satisfy the global demand for energy. Moreover, predictions of declining coal consumption are failing to materialize and show that green energy strategies are failing at […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, CO2 and GHG, Emissions |
By Kenneth Richard on 13. December 2024
Cost-benefit analyses affirm it would be better to abandon Net Zero policy initiatives and instead “do nothing” about greenhouse gas emissions. New research finds CO2’s largest possible climate impact is “negligible.” The cumulative expected temperature change in doubling CO2 from 400 to 800 ppm is only 0.81°C at most, and this is “certainly not cause […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Emissions |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. November 2024
Fundamental components of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) paradigm fail molecular chemistry. According to a new study, the notion that we can and must reduce atmospheric CO2 so as to avoid climate catastrophe (e.g., runaway global warming or ocean acidification) does not withstand probing academic scrutiny. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a mitigation strategy […]
Posted in Emissions, Ocean Acidification |
By Kenneth Richard on 2. September 2024
“The main factor governing the annual increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration is the SST [sea surface temperature] rather than human emissions.” – Ato, 2024 Another day, another new scientific paper has been published reporting efforts to curb anthropogenic CO2 emissions are “meaningless.” In this study multiple linear regression analysis was performed comparing SST versus anthropogenic […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions, Natural Variability |
By Kenneth Richard on 18. March 2024
“From modern instrumental carbon isotopic data of the last 40 years, no signs of human (fossil fuel) CO2 emissions can be discerned.” – Koutsoyiannis, 2024 It is routinely claimed that a telltale sign human emissions (fossil fuels) have irrevocably altered the atmospheric CO2 concentration is a declining trend in carbon isotope 13 (δ13C), considered an […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 18. December 2023
“Where hydrocarbon chains (food types) are consumed by humans and turned into CH4 [methane] … global warming potential is no longer neutral, and human respiration has a net warming effect on the atmosphere.” – Prada et al., 2023 Image Source pexels.com (stock photo) According to a new study, humans “contribute to global warming” by exhaling […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions, We're To Blame |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. October 2023
For decades rock weathering has been thought to be a net sink in carbon budget models. New research finds rock emissions are a large net source of CO2 to the atmosphere. A few years ago Buesseler et al., 2020 discovered that all of the climate modelers’ previous estimates of global ocean carbon uptake are substantially […]
Posted in Emissions, Models |
By Kenneth Richard on 18. September 2023
“Oddly, while the principal direction suggested by the models is ΔIn[CO₂] → ΔT, the explained variance is impressively low (10-15%) in this direction and impressively high (reaching 90%) in the opposite direction, at ΔT → ΔIn[CO₂].” − Koutsoyiannis et al., 2023 One of the most basic concepts in physics is that causes precede effects and effects […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions |
By Kenneth Richard on 10. November 2022
An increase in effective radiative forcing from human activity is now said to be mostly driven by a decline in aerosol pollution, superseding the effects of CO2 emissions. The majority of an alleged acceleration in anthropogenic global warming in the 21st century “is driven by changes in the the aerosol [effective radiative forcing] trend, due […]
Posted in Emissions |
By Kenneth Richard on 4. August 2022
Adding reflectors to roofs and pavements and similar strategies could globally reflect 87 W/m² more incoming solar radiation than is reflected on an annual basis currently, cooling the surface. In contrast, the sum of the accumulated annual anthropogenic radiative forcing from greenhouse gases (GHG) since 1750 is 2.72 W/m². A new study analyzes the effectiveness […]
Posted in Emissions, Solar Sciences |
By Kenneth Richard on 2. June 2022
Instead of focusing on probabilistic percentages and constructed correlations between two events in efforts to determine potential causality, 4 scientists have revisited the requisite conditions for causality in applying the scientific method. They find “the common perception that increasing CO2 causes increased [temperature] can be excluded because it violates the necessary condition for this causal […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. May 2022
A new study finds “the total CO2 emissions will be much lower with continued use of the old but operational combustion car instead of buying a new electric one.” Image Source: Neugebauer et al., 2022 It has long been assumed that replacing internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles with electric vehicles (EV) will lead to dramatically […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Emissions, Green Follies |
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