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 11. September 2023
“In a modified experiment, where IR emission from the heating source is present, no heating but a slight cooling of a black object is found when air is replaced by CO2. The modified experimental situation is also more like the earth/atmosphere situation.” – Seim and Olsen, 2023 Scientists Hermann Harde and Michael Schnell published a […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 16. August 2023
Germany’s Socialist/Green government adds more fuel to inflation…announcing it will boost the price of CO2 emissions by 10 euros a ton beginning in 2024! High energy costs have led to runaway inflation in Germany. Source: www.statista.com/ According to Germany’s online Handelsblatt, the German government has moved to increase the price tom emit a ton of […]
Posted in Climate Politics
By P Gosselin on 5. August 2023
CO2 is not the big driver. Solution: Increase Ocean Evaporation (<4% of CO2 Reduction Cost) By David R. Motes Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is real and caused by increasing CO2. However, it is not driven by the prevailing CO2 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) theory, but rather by a much larger CO2 induced Plant Transpiration Reduction (PTR). […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 20. July 2023
“Climatological models…pretend on a long-term description of the atmosphere…ignoring physical laws in climatology.” – Smirnov, 2022 “[T]he Kirchoff law is neglected in climatological models. This leads to a large mistake in prediction of the global temperature change.” “[D]oubling the concentration of atmospheric CO2 molecules leads to the following change of the global temperature T = […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Models |
By Kenneth Richard on 10. July 2023
Over the last 210 million years [Myr], (a) CO2 falls as temperatures rise (negative correlation, r = -0.76), (b) mass extinctions occur 4.08 Myr after CO2 peaks, and (c) global warming/CO2 radiative forcing “did not cause extinction of biodiversity.” A new study has been published in Earth’s Future journal that supplements a 2017 analysis of […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology
By Kenneth Richard on 3. July 2023
Per a new study, million-year variations in cosmic rays (CR) modulating cloud cover, which, in turn, drives variations in incident solar radiation on short- and long-term timescales, is the dominant cause of million-year climate variations, explaining all 7 Ice Age epochs over the Phanerozoic. In contrast, declining CO2 and rising solar luminosity over the last […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 12. June 2023
Examining the beliefs underpinning the assumption that humans are heating up the planet can be enlightening. A book focusing on CO2 storage has recently been published by two geophysicists (Amundsen and Landro, 2023). Using insights from Svante Arrhenius, the late 19th century founding “father of climate change,” the authors assess that the radiative lifetime of […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Scepticism |
By P Gosselin on 9. June 2023
The higher temperatures are clearly attributable to a reduction in cloud cover, not CO2 The DIY way to demystify “greenhouse gas” claims Rapidly rising temperatures and drought in parts of central Europe are caused by a long-term trend of receding cloud cover. Fewer clouds result in increased solar energy influx and reduced downpour. Both factors […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, Cloud Climate Influence, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 8. June 2023
Both the history of the Holocene as well as trends from recent decades continue to undermine claims of unprecedented sea level or coastal changes operating in tandem with rising CO2 concentrations. Per a new published study (Martins et al., 2023), during the Mid-Holocene (~7000 to ~4000 years ago), when CO2 was a “safe” ~265 ppm, […]
Posted in Paleo-climatology, Sea Levels |
By Kenneth Richard on 22. May 2023
In the last 25,000 years there has been an anti-correlation between rising CO2 and the Siberian Arctic temperature – the opposite of what is claimed by proponents of the anthropogenic global warming narrative. According to a new study, Arctic Siberia was 4°C warmer than it is today from 15,000 to 11,000 years ago, when CO2 […]
Posted in Arctic, Paleo-climatology |
By Kenneth Richard on 24. April 2023
A new study exposes the uncertainty in solar activity reconstructions, but suggests solar models explain climate changes far better than atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Proxy model estimates of the impact of solar variability on climate are highly uncertain. For example, estimations of the increase in solar irradiance over the last 400 years range anywhere from 0.75 […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Paleo-climatology, Solar Sciences |
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