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By Kenneth Richard on 17. April 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterEarth’s average annual temperature fluctuated by as much as 35°C (at high latitudes) from one millennial-scale period to the next during the last glacial period. A recently-published 2-part study (Smul′skii, 2022a and 2022b) utilizes established orbital and insolation data to calculate Earth’s average temperature today (0 k years ago), 14.4°C, and at […]
Posted in Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 20. February 2023
Share this… Facebook Twitter“No evidence is found for any systematic trend in precipitation deficits attributable to anthropogenic climate change.” – O’Connell et al., 2022 In a new study (O’Connell et al., 2022), scientists use a stochastic or random probability distribution analysis to assess whether a signal in global precipitation deficits (droughts) could be linked to […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Drought and Deserts, Models, Natural Variability |
By Kenneth Richard on 6. February 2023
Share this… Facebook TwitterClaims the Swedish Scandes are unprecedentedly warm and tree-covered today “appear as large and unfounded exaggerations,” as the “climate and arboreal responses” of the last few decades “are still inside the frames of natural historical variation.” – Kullman, 2022 and Kullman, 2022a Extensive birch forest fossils can be dated to the early- […]
Posted in Medieval Warm Period, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 19. December 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterIf the error and uncertainty associated with determining the extent to which natural factors (aerosol forcing, downwelling shortwave variability) affect climate are factors of ten times larger than the presumed effects of human activity, then we cannot definitively say human activity is driving climate change. It takes 10 years and 22 ppm […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Natural Variability |
By Kenneth Richard on 10. October 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterPrecipitation records can be directly associated with climate changes and thus temperature changes. And for “all over the UK and Ireland” there has been no detectable rainfall patterns that could be linked to rising CO2 throughout the Industrial Era. The Rainfall Rescue project used volunteers to digitize 66,000 pages containing 5.28 million […]
Posted in Drought and Deserts, Flood, Natural Variability |
By Kenneth Richard on 3. October 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterThere are four main reasons why Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf may be melting. None of them involve human forcing or CO2 concentration changes. Scientists have recently completed an exhaustive 20-year study of the “most significant causes of melting” of the Larsen C Ice Shelf in the Antarctic Peninsula. They have concluded […]
Posted in Antarctic, Glaciers, Natural Variability |
By P Gosselin on 9. August 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterAlarmist climate research centers like the Potsdam Institute and the unquestioning media have been claiming for years that the Jet Stream is weakening, hence this would lead to greater weather extremes across the northern hemisphere due to blocking. Responsible for this of course is man-made global warming. Hat-tip: The Klimaschau But a […]
Posted in Models, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability |
By Kenneth Richard on 8. August 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterCloud modulation of shortwave radiation and greenhouse effect forcing has largely been the determining factor in the global warming of the last 45 years. Not CO2. CO2 forcing and its effect on surface temperatures is detailed in analyses of changes in clear-sky radiation only because all-sky radiation effects that include clouds (and […]
Posted in Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, Natural Variability |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. May 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterSince 2000 there has been a natural reduction in net air-sea fluxes at the same time there has been rapid warming in the Indian Ocean. This affirms anthropogenic surface forcing cannot explain the recent warming in at least half the global ocean. The Indian Ocean covers approximately 20% of the ocean surface, […]
Posted in Natural Variability, Oceans |
By Kenneth Richard on 5. May 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterOf all the possible reasons for a warming Arctic since 2002, it has been determined that “the clear-sky downward long-wave radiation caused by water vapor” is the dominant cause. A new study says that when it comes to downwelling long-wave, water vapor, clouds, and temperature are the main factors determining its intensity. […]
Posted in Arctic, Natural Variability |
By Kenneth Richard on 28. March 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterA new study uses existing temperature and CO2 records and albedo/natural variability attribution to suggest most of the recent warming is natural. The climate sensitivity to CO2 forcing is just over 0.2°C for a 100 ppm concentration increase. Dr. Syun-Ichi Akasofu is an “expert in aurora physics, solar physics, geophysics, and magnetosphere” […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Natural Variability |
By Kenneth Richard on 14. February 2022
Share this… Facebook TwitterIn 2021, several hundred more scientific papers were 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 mainstream media sources. These scientific papers […]
Posted in Alarmism, Antarctic, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG, Cooling/Temperature, Coral Reefs, Drought and Deserts, Fire, Flood, Glaciers, Hockey Team, Medieval Warm Period, Models, Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Natural Variability, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice, Sea Levels, Temperature Bias/Urbanization, Warming/CO2 Benefiting Earth |
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