From the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA and the “fuel out of thin air” department comes this announcement that says right off the bat it can’t compete with oil, especially when…
Category: Carbon dioxide
Energy, Carbon Dioxide, and The Pause
Guest essay by Ken Stewart Here’s an alternative way to view The Pause. Rather than analysing temperature trends over time, here I compare temperature with carbon emissions and carbon dioxide…
Attribution of Surplus CO2 in the Atmosphere
Guest essay by Leo Goldstein While we are watching the 21st episode of the Clowns on Parade series (COP21), we should remind the leading participants of a couple of facts…
Claim: positive CO2 feedback from plants due to "warm nights" will flood atmosphere with carbon
From the PRINCETON UNIVERSITY and the department of 97% consensus and 911 Trutherism comes this study that I’d put zero stock in for two reasons: 1) Author William Anderegg,…
About spurious correlations and causation of the CO2 increase…
Guest essay by Ferdinand Engelbeen Both Bart Bartemis and Dr. Murray Salby are confident that temperature is the only/main cause of the CO2 increase in the atmosphere. I am pretty…
CO2 residence time said to be 40 years, not 1000 per previous claims
Readers may recall claims of 1000 year residence times for CO2. This essay suggests a much shorter interval. -Anthony Guest essay by Leo Goldstein Surplus CO2 is removed from…
OCO-2 – Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 – the mission has released an animation
Guest essay by Ric Werme It’s been a long wait, but OCO-2 speaks! Let’s start with a timeline:
India’s Proposed COP21 Climate Plan Will Triple Emissions By 2030
Guest essay by By Paul Homewood http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/pollution/India-submits-its-climate-action-plan-asks-rich-nations-to-cooperate-in-achieving-its-goal/articleshow/49189501.cms BERLIN: India said on Thursday that it would increase the share of clean energy in its total energy mix by as much…
The Mathematics of Carbon Dioxide Part 4
Guest essay by Mike Jonas A look at Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity from a logical perspective. Introduction This article is the fourth in a series of four articles. Part 1 of the…
A co-founder of Greenpeace tells the truth on CO2
Dr. Patrick Moore, who was one of the original founders of Greenpeace who left the organization in disgust of their current political zealotry, and Greenpeace is now trying to have…
The Mathematics of Carbon Dioxide Part 2
Guest essay by Mike Jonas Introduction This article is the second in a series of four articles. Part 1 of the series (Part 1) is here In Part 1, simple…
The Mathematics of Carbon Dioxide, Part 1
This is a guest essay by Mike Jonas, part 1 of 4 Introduction The aim of this article is to provide simple mathematical formulae that can be used to calculate…
When it comes to CO2 reduction, economy rules, activism drools
From the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis: Economy main factor in US emissions decline From 2007 to 2013, US carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels decreased by about 11%.…
One more thing for Greece to worry about – undersea pools of carbon dioxide
From Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution – Carbon dioxide pools discovered in Aegean Sea The location of the second largest volcanic eruption in human history, the waters off Greece’s Santorini are…
Claim: Increased carbon dioxide levels in air restrict plants' ability to absorb nutrients
From the University of Gothenburg and the “this is why we buy CO2 generators for greenhouses“ department. The rapidly rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere affect plants’ absorption…
Presentation of Evidence Suggesting Temperature Drives Atmospheric CO2 more than CO2 Drives Temperature
Note: I present this for discussion, I have no opinion on its validity -Anthony Watts Guest essay by Allan MacRae Temperature, among other factors, drives atmospheric CO2 much more than…
Claim: Greenhouse gas-caused warming felt in just months
Caldeira It seems in the desperation to erase “the pause” in time for Paris, Ken Caldeira has jumped the shark with this claim. Basically he’s claiming that the heat from fossil…
Claim: Climate Change will make Californian Marijuana more potent
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Daily Climate reports that global warming is set to make Californian marijuana a lot stronger – if we let it happen. According to the…
A benefit of increased Carbon Dioxide: increased efficiency in tree growth, no "Mike's Nature trick" needed
Gosh, whouda thunk it? There goes Mann’s hockey stick. No wonder he had to truncate all the data after 1960 and splice on the instrumental record. Of course, as I’ve…
NOAA Announcement: CO2 Concentration Surpasses 400ppm “for the first month since measurements began”
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale Yesterday, in the press release Greenhouse gas benchmark reached, NOAA announced: Global carbon dioxide concentrations surpass 400 parts per million for the first month since…
The Secret Life of Half-Life
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [see update at the end of the head post] I first got introduced to the idea of “half-life” in the 1950s because the topic of…
Almost 30 years after Hansen's 1988 "alarm" on global warming, a claim of confirmation on CO2 forcing
From the “this ought to shut up the “Skydragon slayers” department. Despite sophomoric claims that I’m a “denier”, I’ve never disputed that CO2 has a role in warming via retardation…
Why reducing CO2 Emissions is like the 'Prisoner's Dilemma'
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Prisoner’s dilemma is a games theory scenario which explores cooperation in difficult circumstances. The classic description, there are two prisoners accused of a crime.…
NASA's new Orbiting Carbon Observatory shows potential tectonically-induced CO2 input from the ocean?
Guest essay by Martin Hovland, Geophysiscist and Professor Emeritus, Center for Geobiology, University of Bergen, Norway The newly released satellite OCO2-data indicates that there is CO2 input in tectonically active…
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