By Kenneth Richard on 15. January 2024
“Negative TOA [top of atmosphere] forcing of CO2 increase also happens outside of Antarctica. The Arctic sometimes exhibits strong negative CO2 forcing. This phenomenon even occurs in the tropics and mid-latitudes…” – Chen et al., 2024 It has previously been reported that as CO2 increases from 380 ppm to 1000 ppm, the CO2 greenhouse effect […]
Posted in Antarctic, Arctic, Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 11. January 2024
“The real atmosphere does not follow the GHG [greenhouse gas] GE [greenhouse effect] hypothesis of the IPCC.” – Miskolczi, 2023 CO2 increased from 310 ppm to 385 ppm (24%) during the 60 years from 1948 to 2008. Observations indicate this led to a negative radiative imbalance of -0.75 W/m². In other words, increasing CO2 delivered […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 23. December 2023
The only thing Berlin’s fueling is discontent… The German government’s CO2 price increase beginning from January 2024 will make petrol, heating and electricity more expensive. Already Germany’s industry is shrinking rapidly and farmers are now protesting nationally due to high fuels costs: These protests are rapidly expanding and a national day of protest in planned […]
Posted in Agriculture, Climate Politics |
By Kenneth Richard on 7. December 2023
“…the rate of change in CO2 concentration is controlled, not by emissions, but by the global temperature” – Emrén, 2023 A new study published in the International Journal of Global Warming once again questions the popular narrative that says humans can control the temperatures of the ocean and melt the polar ice sheets by engaging […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. November 2023
Variations in the greenhouse effect are predominantly modulated by water vapor and cloud cover. CO2’s role in the greenhouse effect is so minor it cannot be discerned. For decades scientists have reported that a CO2 concentration of about 300 ppm can only increase the downwelling longwave radiation (DLWR), or greenhouse effect, by about 1.5 W/m² […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 23. November 2023
Analysis of CO2 residence times suggest 65% to 96.5% of the CO2 concentration increase since 1958 is natural. According to a new study, the claim that increases in atmospheric CO2 are driven exclusively by humans relies on a made-up, disparate accounting model, with the residence time for natural emissions 3 to 4 years (which is […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Natural Variability |
By Kenneth Richard on 16. November 2023
The timing of the dramatic Antarctic sea ice decline during the last deglaciation suggests solar forcing and sea ice retreat “instigated” century-scale climate warming and atmospheric CO2 change. This would appear to challenge the perception CO2 plays a causal role in glacial-interglacial sea ice and climate changes. From ~21,000 to 19,500 years ago, when CO2 […]
Posted in Antarctic, Paleo-climatology, Sea Ice |
By Kenneth Richard on 30. October 2023
“Despite two decades of advances in many aspects of aerosol-climate science, aerosol climate forcing uncertainty is virtually undiminished. Yet, reducing this uncertainty is critical for any effort to attribute, mitigate, or predict climate changes.” – Kahn et al., 2023 According to a new study, the lower-bound uncertainty in natural aerosol forcing from wildfire smoke, desert […]
Posted in Models, Uncertainty Error
By Kenneth Richard on 19. October 2023
There are many scientifically invalid assumptions in the “greenhouse gas hypothesis” that the editors of a journal, Earth System Dynamics (ESD), now insist they will never again allow to be subjected to critical analysis in future publications, as the editors of this journal are committed to only publishing studies agreeing with the “consensus.” In a […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Uncertainty Error |
By Kenneth Richard on 17. October 2023
Per a new study, atmospheric CO2 levels rose to 383 ppm in the 1940s mostly as a consequence of soil respiration processes and sea surface temperature warming. Any anthropogenic contribution to this CO2 peak “can be largely excluded.” When assessing the historical atmospheric CO2 concentration, direct measurements of chemically analyzed air samples are at least […]
Posted in Climate Sensitivity, CO2 and GHG |
By P Gosselin on 14. October 2023
By AR Göhring, EIKE Greens and activists used to be absolutely in favor of protecting the greenery of our planet – at least that’s what the city kids claimed. Today they are more honest, as they advocate the industrialization of nature with wind turbines and PV parks and preach instead abstract and long refuted consequences […]
Posted in CO2 Greens the Earth |
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 |
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