Tag Archives: Atmosphere of Earth

Premature 400 PPM fail-a-bration

Posted on May 13, 2013 by

It seems we didn’t reach 400PPM last week after all. The data has been revised. Ooops. ‘Carbon dioxide measurements in the Earth’s atmosphere did not break the symbolic milestone of 400 parts per million at a Hawaiian observatory last week, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Carbon dioxide | Tagged , , , , | 106 Comments

A misinterpreted claim about a NASA press release, CO2, solar flares, and the thermosphere is making the rounds

Posted on March 28, 2013 by

I loathe having to write this story because I truly dislike giving any attention to the people who are known as the “slayers” from the “Slaying the Sky Dragon” book. They now operate under the moniker of “Principia Scientific”. But, … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Opinion, Ridiculae, solar flare | Tagged , , , , | 126 Comments

Study suggests ‘snowball Earth’ was real and was reversed by ‘An ultra-high carbon dioxide atmosphere’

Posted on February 28, 2013 by

It makes you wonder what created all that CO2 millions of years ago. From Louisiana State University LSU researchers find new information about ‘Snowball Earth’ period It is rather difficult to imagine, but approximately 635 million years ago, ice may … Continue reading →

Posted in Paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , | 162 Comments

The Forcing Conundrum

Posted on December 12, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach. For all of its faults, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) lays out their idea of the climate paradigm pretty clearly. A fundamental part of this paradigm is that the long-term change in global … Continue reading →

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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 →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Space | Tagged , , , , , , , | 145 Comments

Some thoughts on radiative transfer and GHG’s

Posted on July 21, 2012 by

Guest post by Reed Coray The following example illustrates the issues I have with reasoning often used to argue that increasing the amount of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere will increase both the Earth’s surface temperature and the Earth’s atmosphere … Continue reading →

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So Dinosaurs Could Fly ! – Part I

Posted on June 2, 2012 by

A look at diminishing atmospheric pressure Guest post by Andi Cockroft In an unrelated article of mine on Isostacy and Mean Sea Level posted here, I mentioned in passing a thesis paper by Theresa Cole (here) and here: ColeTheresaN2011MSc – … Continue reading →

Posted in Paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , , , , | 239 Comments

Pilot video for a series: Bill Scientific – “The Greenhouse Effect”

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

Guest post by Bill DiPuccio, Science Teacher Let’s face it, high school science videos can be boring and ineffective. I like my science with a twist of comic exaggeration. So I decided to produce a video with enough humor to … Continue reading →

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Global annualized temperature – “full of [snip] up to their eyebrows”

Posted on March 4, 2012 by

Guest Post by Dr. Robert Brown, Physics Dept. Duke University [elevated from comments] Dr. Brown mentions “global temperature” several times. I’d like to know what he thinks of this. Dr. Brown thinks that this is a very nice piece of … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, Opinion | Tagged , , , , , , , | 224 Comments

New paper: AGW may save us from the next ice age

Posted on January 8, 2012 by

As mentioned in our WUWT story earlier today Increased CO2 Emissions Will Delay Next Ice Age the official press release is now out at Eurekalert and published below. I can hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth already. Bottom line, … Continue reading →

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Cloud cools

Posted on September 28, 2011 by

Guest post by Erl Happ This post was generated in response to the Christopher Monkton thread. It is not a criticism of Christopher Monkton but of our tendency to imagine that artful mathematicians (I am not one) are sufficiently sophisticated … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate sensitivity, clouds | Tagged | 113 Comments

Let the inhaler hoarding begin

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

First, let’s go back a month,  this from the Will Steger Foundation: On Tuesday [August 2nd 2011], State Senator Torres Ray said, “I’m delighted to participate in the air quality awareness event organized by the Sierra Club in Minneapolis. Air … Continue reading →

Posted in CFC's, GLOC, Government idiocy, Ozone | Tagged , , , , , , , | 91 Comments

New NASA paper contradicts Kaufmann et al saying it’s volcanoes, not China coal

Posted on July 18, 2011 by

It seems that there’s a paper (from JeanPaul Vernier at NASA) out that contradicts the findings of Kaufmann et al 2011, where they blame China’s increasing coal consumption for lack of warming in the past decade saying coal use is … Continue reading →

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A new perspective on climate science and wind power

Posted on May 5, 2011 by

Reposted from Dr. Roger Pielke Senior’s blog: A New Perspective On Climate Science By L. Miller, F. Gans and A. Kleidon It is not often that a new perspective is proposed in climate science, however, a set of two 2011 papers have done that (h/t … Continue reading →

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Earth’s changing atmosphere

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

Guest Post by Erl Happ This article investigates the sources of natural climate variation.  This is a long post but it’s a big subject. Before you get half way through, your perception of the way things are, will have changed. … Continue reading →

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