Category Archives: Carbon dioxide

University of New Hampshire invertedly overheats soil, and pronounces a climate change result

Posted on January 21, 2013 by

From the University of New Hampshire comes this press release that made me recoil when I read the methodology involved because it is Mannian-Tiljanderish in the approach. Instead of doing top down heating (as occurs in Nature), they do bottom … Continue reading →

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Paleo sea level and CO2

Posted on January 3, 2013 by

From the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK) New study documents the natural relationship between CO2 concentrations and sea level By comparing reconstructions of atmospheric CO2 concentrations and sea level over the past 40 million years, researchers based at the National … Continue reading →

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An open letter challenging the EPA on CO2 regulation

Posted on December 28, 2012 by

In the Washington Examiner today, there is this: Op-Ed: EPA’s carbon regs not based on sound science. It is published by Joe D’Aleo on behalf of a number of people.  A longer more complete version of the essay is below, … Continue reading →

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What’s up with RGGI? Moving the cap down.

Posted on December 13, 2012 by

Guest post by Ric Werme Things have been pretty quiet in the northeast’s the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). New Jersey has gotten out and remains out, New Hampshire didn’t get out, but most of the money collected will be … Continue reading →

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A Brief History of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Record-Breaking

Posted on December 7, 2012 by

Guest Post by David Middleton The World Meteorological Organization (Why do I always think of Team America: World Police whenever “World” and “Organization” appear in the same title?) recently announced that atmospheric greenhouse gases had once again set a new … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Carbon dioxide, Climate sensitivity, Consensus, Current News, Paleoclimatology, Temperature, United Nations | Tagged , , | 84 Comments

A problem: nearly one third of CO2 emissions occured since 1998, and it hasn’t warmed

Posted on December 6, 2012 by

Guest post by Tom Fuller The physics behind the theory of global warming are solid. CO2 is a greenhouse gas, we’re emitting industrial levels of it, with China now in the lead for emissions. A significant portion remains in the … Continue reading →

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On losing the 2°C battle

Posted on December 3, 2012 by

We’ve already posted on how China is moving right along now as the big kahuna of CO2 emissions, now it seems there’s some despair over the inability to miss the imagined 2°C target set by wishful thinkers. From CSIRO: The … Continue reading →

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A carbon tax is climatically useless

Posted on December 3, 2012 by

 Guest post by Chipp Knappenberger – reposted from Master Resource by request “No matter how much you pay with a carbon levy, virtually nothing is received climatically…. No matter the level of domestic action that we take, it will pale … Continue reading →

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Record high for global carbon emissions – China is the leader

Posted on December 2, 2012 by

From the University of East Anglia  home of Climatgate and Phil Jones. Fortunately, we already covered this at WUWT graphically as shown below: This graph and subsequent story shows just how well the Kyoto protocol has succeeded, which is to … Continue reading →

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The Atlantic Magazine’s ’5 Charts About Climate Change That Should Have You Very, Very Worried’… Worried about scientific illiteracy.

Posted on November 28, 2012 by

Guest post by David Middleton I ran into this gem on Real Clear Energy this morning… The article cites terrifying new reports commissioned by the World Bank and the CIA and then launches into a graphical cornucopia of nonsense. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Carbon dioxide, Climate Craziness of the Week, Climate FAIL, Climate_change, Current News, Disaster, Drought, Environment, extreme weather, Fun_stuff, Greenland ice sheet, Humor, media, Paleoclimatology, Tabloid Climatology, Wildfires | Tagged , , , , , , | 88 Comments

On noes! CO2 dissolving snails in Antarctica

Posted on November 26, 2012 by

From the British Antarctic Survey  and the University of East Anglia comes one of those press releases where I just have to wonder if this won’t eventually go the way of the “global warming causes mutated frogs” claim that turned … Continue reading →

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A graphical look at worldwide CO2 numbers

Posted on November 23, 2012 by

Some numbers that you may find interesting, graphed by Ed Hoskins from France. Here’s more:

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That CO2 is powerful stuff, now causes satellites to be threatened in orbit due to lingering space debris

Posted on November 12, 2012 by

From the “CO2 is there anything it can’t do department” comes this ridiculous piece of research making the rounds in the MSM that worries about something that has not been observed to happen…oh, wait. From Nature Geoscience, note the text … Continue reading →

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New paper suggests that CO2 ‘…could prove to be our salvation from the next ice age’

Posted on November 8, 2012 by

From the University of Gothenburg , another head exploder for Joe Romm and company. Carbon dioxide – our salvation from a future ice age? Mankind’s emissions of fossil carbon and the resulting increase in temperature could prove to be our … Continue reading →

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Here it comes–a carbon tax

Posted on November 7, 2012 by

Obama May Levy Carbon Tax to Cut the U.S. Deficit, HSBC Says By Mathew Carr – Bloomberg News Barack Obama may consider introducing a tax on carbon emissions to help cut the U.S. budget deficit after winning a second term … Continue reading →

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Claim: CO2 makes you stupid? Ask a submariner that question

Posted on October 17, 2012 by

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, something that might finally explain Al Gore’s behavior – too much time spent indoors and in auditoriums giving pitches about the dangers of CO2. One wonders though what the Navy submarine service has to say … Continue reading →

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New technology enables CO2 emissions tracking down to the level of individual buildings

Posted on October 9, 2012 by

I wonder what sort of reactions will occur when the CO2 police come knocking on individual doors saying “you need to turn off your heater, you are killing the planet”? A video follows. From Arizona State University: Study maps greenhouse … Continue reading →

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‘Almost half of the CO2 transfers into the US are caused by the American trade deficit’

Posted on September 23, 2012 by

From the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Constraining world trade is unlikely to help the climate Instead, researchers were able to pin down a number of factors explaining the pronounced imbalances between emission importers and exporters, the US … Continue reading →

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Important paper strongly suggests man-made CO2 is not the driver of global warming

Posted on August 30, 2012 by

Reposted from the Hockey Schtick, as I’m out of time and on the road.- Anthony An important new paper published today in Global and Planetary Change finds that changes in CO2 follow rather than lead global air surface temperature and … Continue reading →

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Earth’s CO2 sinks increasing their uptake

Posted on August 2, 2012 by

Readers may recall these WUWT stories:  Earth’s biosphere booming,  California’s giant redwoods inconveniently respond to increased carbon dioxide, and Forget deforestation: The world’s woodland is getting denser and change could help combat climate change. NASA satellite imagery pointed this out long ago. … Continue reading →

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