By Kenneth Richard on 25. March 2024
There has been a “continued, significant ozone reduction since 2004, amounting to 26% loss in the core of the ozone hole” (Kessenich et al., 2023). It is not at all evident that the 1987 Montreal Protocol bans on presumed ozone-depleting substances (ODS) like chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) materially affected the flat to negative trajectory of stratospheric ozone over […]
Posted in Ozone 'Hole' |
By Kenneth Richard on 26. September 2022
The increasing loss of ozone (O3) from 3o°N – 30°S has steadily accelerated since the early 1980s despite the 1987 Montreal Protocol’s ban on so-called “ozone depleting substances” like chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Once again this suggests human activity does not drive ozone losses. Twenty years after the Montreal Protocol agreement limiting or banning CFC use scientists […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 14. September 2017
Ozone Measurement Error ‘Shatters’ Established Theory It was 10 years ago this month that scientists revealed an order-of-magnitude-sized error in molecular chemistry measurement that threatened to severely undermine the commonly accepted explanation for how ozone depletion occurs. The iconoclastic discovery fomented “much debate and uncertainty in the ozone research community.” The mechanism that causes polar […]
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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 |
By P Gosselin on 24. April 2010
The April 21, 2010 German edition of the Russian news website RIA Novosti has a piece with a possible explanantion as to why Antarctic sea ice is expanding while the rest of the globe is warming. http://de.rian.ru/science/20100421/126005955.html A Russian scientist believes it is due to the ozone hole over the South Pole. According to Alexander Klepikov […]
Posted in Antarctic, Russian Climate Science
By P Gosselin on 24. February 2024
Green capitalism on the retreat? Blackrock and other heavyweights withdraw from Climate Action 100+ By AR Göhring According to its own statement, “Klima-Aktion 100+“ (Climate Action 100+) is an “investor-led initiative to ensure that the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters take the necessary measures to protect the climate”. Over 170 world-renowned companies and corporations are members […]
Posted in Alarmism, Climate Politics |
A Warmer Past: Non-Hockey Stick Reconstructions Roy et al., 2023 Holocene air temperatures were reconstructed from δ18O measurements from the nearby Agassiz Ice Cap. The 25-yr mean annual air temperature record shows a rapid Early Holocene warming, with temperatures being 6–8°C warmer than today at 10,000 yr b2k followed by a gradual cooling to AD […]
By P Gosselin on 14. January 2023
By Fred F. Mueller Do you feel helpless when trying to assess the veracity of “climate doom is looming” claims we are constantly bombarded with? For ordinary citizens not having acquired at least a Ph.d. degree in atmospheric physics or comparable climate-relevant sciences, it seems nearly impossible to tell right from wrong when it comes […]
Posted in Misc. |
Solar Influence On Climate Scafetta, 2021 This result implies that the CMIP5 models are missing important climatic mechanisms responsible for a large millennial oscillation that has been found throughout the Holocene and has been linked to a millennial solar oscillation [2,4,17,72,90,105]. The argument can be, therefore, extended to other decadal, multidecadal, and secular solar oscillations […]
By Kenneth Richard on 22. April 2021
A groundbreaking new study in Science suggests warm interglacial-like conditions (surface temperatures within 1°C of today’s) persisted from 54 to 42,000 years ago even though CO₂ levels idled around 200 ppm at that time. A sudden geomagnetic shift that intensified galactic cosmic rays and cloud formation and reduced ozone levels ~42,000 years ago resulted in […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Paleo-climatology, Solar Sciences |
Solar Influence On Climate Delgado-Bonal et al, 2020 Our research supports the idea that clouds and albedo, which ultimately determine the SW radiation, are variables of the utmost importance for current climate change, in agreement with previous research about the changes in stratocumulus or energy imbalance in the last four decades for example. An increase […]
By P Gosselin on 14. July 2020
Researchers can no longer blame inconvenient cold winters on Arctic warming. No scientific basis, new study shows. Image: NASA (public domain) By Die kalte Sonne (German text translated by P. Gosselin) The Arctic is warming faster than the mid-latitudes. It’s the so-called Arctic amplification (AA). According to a study by Polvani et al. 2020, half […]
Posted in Arctic |
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