By Kenneth Richard on 13. August 2018
The purveyors of climate alarm posit that rising CO2 emissions cause up to 600% increases in burned area due to global warming. Newly published science thoroughly undermines these claims. Observational evidence affirms global-scale fire frequencies and burned area have actually been declining for decades (especially since the early 1900s), with overall biomass burning lower today than […]
Posted in Alarmism, CO2 and GHG, Emissions, Little Ice Age |
By Kenneth Richard on 9. August 2018
Recent research has emphasized that “critical mysteries remain” in our ability to quantify or even understand carbon cycle processes as they relate to Earth’s water bodies. Observational constraints prevent the detection of an anthropogenic signal in ocean carbon uptake trends on decadal timescales (McKinley et al., 2017). Many new papers even contradict the IPCC-endorsed conclusion […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 14. May 2018
Governments promote biofuels as renewable, carbon-neutral resources that serve to reduce CO2 emissions. Meanwhile, scientists have determined that biomass burning generates more CO2 emissions per kWh than burning coal does, and the projected rapid growth in biofuel use will only serve to ‘increase atmospheric CO2 for at least a century’. Sterman et al., 2018 “[G]overnments […]
Posted in Emissions, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 17. March 2018
What follows is one example why caution is absolutely essential when dealing with results and findings issued by (activist) government agencies. Once popular diesel engines now public enemy no. 1 Nowhere in the world have the diesel engines enjoyed so much popularity as in Germany. Diesel engines had long been considered in Germany as being […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics, Emissions |
By P Gosselin on 26. December 2017
What follows are 6 recent studies presented by Lüning and Vahrenholt, which dump cold water on the claim storms will get more frequent and intense. The studies fly in the face of a recent Nature editorial piece, one filled with the usual worn out alarmist propaganda language of climate doom we’ve been seeing for over a […]
Posted in Alarmism, Emissions, Hurricanes/Tornados |
By Kenneth Richard on 21. December 2017
Post-1940s ‘Agricultural Intensification’ Caused Deep Cooling, 400% Crop Growth In a new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, three MIT scientists assert that the human influence on the climate of the Central United States is dominated by agricultural activity rather than greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Human activity has caused a significant long-term cooling trend (-0.35°C between […]
Posted in Agriculture, Cooling/Temperature, Emissions, Models |
By Kenneth Richard on 11. December 2017
Electric Vehicle Emissions 27-50% Greater Than Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles Image: Qiao et al., 2017 Sales of electric vehicles (EV) in China have exploded in recent years. According to the New York Times (October, 2017), between 2014 and 2017, annual EV purchases by China’s citizens more than doubled, from 145,000 in 2014 to 295,000 (projected) for […]
Posted in Emissions, Green Follies |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. July 2017
Negligible 4.9% Emissions Difference Between EVs And Petroleum Vehicles According to a new paper published in the journal Issues in Science and Technology entitled “Electric Vehicles: Climate Saviors, Or Not?”, driving an electric vehicle (EV) rather than a conventional petroleum-powered vehicle effectively does nothing to reduce global-scale CO2 emissions. This is because charging EVs on […]
Posted in Emissions, Green Follies |
By Kenneth Richard on 29. June 2017
Anthropogenic Emissions ≠ CO2 Concentration Changes For the last 3 years, human CO2 emissions rates have not risen. In fact, according to the IEA, we burned slightly more fossil fuels in 2014 than we did in both 2015 and 2016. Despite the lack of growth – even slight decline – in human emissions rates during 2014 – […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions, Scepticism |
By Kenneth Richard on 19. June 2017
What If Human Emissions Aren’t All That Influential? We have been led to believe that we can control the size of the ozone hole and both methane and CO2 concentrations with our emissions. We have also been led to believe we control weather patterns (storminess, droughts, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes); we control tropospheric, atmospheric, surface, and […]
Posted in Emissions |
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