By Kenneth Richard on 16. May 2022
A new study indicates nearly all the Northern Hemisphere and Tropical warming in the last 40 years occurred by the late 1990s. CO2 has risen by about 50 ppm since 1998 (367 to 418 ppm). Interestingly, upper-air measurements of temperature from balloon-borne sensor radiosonde data, shown below in the image from a new study (Madonna […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 2. May 2022
“Burning woody biomass increases atmospheric CO2 levels for decades. Burning forest biomass for power generation emits more CO2 per-unit of final energy than burning fossil fuels, including coal.” – Bloomer et al., 2022 Image Source: IGSD It is scientifically well known that (a) “the carbon emission from wood fuel is bigger by half than that […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Emissions, Green Follies |
By Kenneth Richard on 15. July 2021
A new study warns that “a massive expansion of impervious surfaces” is an inevitable consequence of having electric vehicles reach a 40% share of citizens’ driving needs. A land area the size of Croatia (in the European Union) or West Virginia (in the United States) must be completely covered with wind turbines to meet EV-charging […]
Posted in Emissions, Green Follies, Wind Power |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. May 2021
There has been a sustained global-scale effort to reduce coal power capacity in recent years. Meanwhile, China’s government has been busy loosening restrictions on coal plant construction to power its post-pandemic economy. In 2020, China built over three times as much new coal power capacity as all other countries in the world combined – with […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Emissions |
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 21. January 2021
Since the 1980s, warming and rising CO2 fertilization have spawned a global-scale greening trend. This leads to an “Earth greening-induced cooling effect” of land surface temperatures. In the last 9 months we have highlighted a study (Haverd et al., 2020) asserting rising CO2 and warming are the dominant drivers of Earth’s strong post-1980s greening trend. […]
Posted in CO2 Greens the Earth, Emissions |
By Kenneth Richard on 5. October 2020
Prompted by the observation that dramatic COVID-related reductions in 2020 human CO2 emissions had zero impact on the Earth’s CO2 concentration, two scientists conduct extensive statistical probability analyses to conclude temperature changes lead CO2 changes, not the other way around. The nearly global acceptance of economically-devastating lockdowns as a mitigating response to the COVID-19 pandemic has […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 29. June 2020
Marine species subjected to high CO2 extremes – 8,891 to 95,000 ppm – in their natural environments may not be adversely affected. They may even “thrive”. Earlier this year we highlighted a study that says coral reefs “thrive” near seafloor volcanic vents where CO2 concentrations reach 60,000 to 95,000 ppm. Image Source: PHYS.ORG Urchins basking in […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Coral Reefs, Emissions, Natural Variability |
By Kenneth Richard on 20. February 2020
An observational study analyzing the effects of 300, 480, 3200, 7500, and 16,900 ppm CO2 on atmospheric (and soil) temperatures has determined “temperatures of atmospheric air in mesocosms [controlled outdoor experiments] with substantially higher CO2 concentration (ranging from 3200 ppm to 16900 ppm) were lower than that with the lower CO2 concentration (480 ppm)”. Image […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Emissions |
By Kenneth Richard on 17. June 2019
In the first 5½ months of 2019, over 200 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 ²²²²mainstream media sources. These […]
Posted in Alarmism, Antarctic, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Drought and Deserts, Emissions, Glaciers, Models, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice, Sea Levels, Solar Sciences, Tectonics/Volcanoes, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth, Wind Power |
By Kenneth Richard on 22. April 2019
The 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 ingredient […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions, Pollution, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth |
By Kenneth Richard on 17. December 2018
• CO2 emissions from termites are more than double human emissions from fossil fuels. Image sources: New York Times, 1982, Zimmerman et al., 1982 • Termite populations have been observed expanding rapidly in recent decades. Image Source: Grace, 2006 Image Source: Buczkowski and Bertelsmeier, 2017 • CO2 emissions from soil is 9 times greater than human CO2 […]
Posted in Emissions, Scepticism |
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