Tag Archives: greenhouse gas

Shocker: dirty electric cars

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

From the University of Tennessee at Knoxville  comes this surprising bit of research. Taken in entirety, and electric vehicle has a greater impact on pollution than a comparable gasoline vehicle. Full disclosure – I own an electric car myself. I’m … Continue reading →

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Support for the saturated greenhouse effect leaves the likelihood of AGW tipping points in the cold

Posted on February 8, 2012 by

From The Hockey Shtick, word of a new paper that supports Miskolczi’s theory of saturated greenhouse effect. We’ve seen this before, in the form of this graph. In 2006, Willis Eschenbach posted this graph on Climate Audit showing the logarithmic … Continue reading →

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Your tax dollars at work: an NCAR cartoon on steroid use in baseball and compared to climate change

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

From the video description: AtmosNews takes a lighthearted look at an unexpected analogy, explaining why some people call carbon dioxide (and the other greenhouse gases) the steroids of the climate system. Statistics and extreme behavior are involved, whether we’re talking … Continue reading →

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Sense and Sensitivity II – the sequel

Posted on January 15, 2012 by

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Joel Shore, who has been questioning my climate-sensitivity calculations, just as a good skeptic should, has kindly provided at my request a reference to a paper by Dr. Andrew Lacis and others at the Goddard … Continue reading →

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There’s a reason the modern age moved on from windmills

Posted on January 10, 2012 by

In the UK, the CIVITAS group has just released an economic analysis of wind power. The scathing report confirms what we have been reporting for years here on WUWT: wind power is expensive, inefficient, does little or nothing to offset … Continue reading →

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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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Increased CO2 Emissions Will Delay Next Ice Age

Posted on January 8, 2012 by

Sir Fred Hoyle Vindicated (Via Dr. Benny Peiser of the GWPF) According to new research to be published in Nature Geoscience  (embargoed until 1800 GMT/10AM PST, Sunday 8 January 2012), the next ice age could set in any time this … Continue reading →

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Getting the year off to a good start

Posted on January 1, 2012 by

It always helps to review the topics discussed here, as doing so always provides an educational opportunity for everyone. Given we are starting a whole new year of bringing the science to people who have doubts about the veracity of … Continue reading →

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Feedback about feedbacks and suchlike fooleries

Posted on December 30, 2011 by

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Responses to my post of December 28 about climate sensitivity have been particularly interesting. This further posting answers some of the feedback. My earlier posting explained how the textbooks establish that if albedo and insolation … Continue reading →

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Sense and sensitivity

Posted on December 28, 2011 by

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Reed Coray’s post here on Boxing Day, commenting on my post of 6 December, questions whether the IPCC and science textbooks are right that without any greenhouse gases the Earth’s surface temperature would be 33 … Continue reading →

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A controversial look at Blackbody radiation and Earth minus GHG’s

Posted on December 26, 2011 by

Guest Post by Reed Coray On Dec. 6, 2011 12:12 am Lord Monckton posted a comment on a thread entitled Monckton on sensitivity training at Durban that appeared on this blog on Dec. 5, 2011. In that comment he wrote: … Continue reading →

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Study: Getting the S out of jet fuel may cool the climate

Posted on December 14, 2011 by

This study from Yale University  seems contradictory to what we know about aerosols. Generally more aerosols like SO2 cool the climate, but in this case they are saying “it’s offset by the cooling effect of nitrate that forms from nitrogen … Continue reading →

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Topsy-Turvey Carbon Footprints from Nature Climate Change

Posted on December 11, 2011 by

Guest Post by Ira Glickstein The lastest issue of Nature Climate Change to reach my mailbox has some startling news, particularly considering that it comes from a generally Warmist publication. One might say is is “topsy-turvy” (upside down) from a … Continue reading →

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Last minute Durban deal reached – extends life of Kyoto protocol

Posted on December 10, 2011 by

Kyoto has become a zombie, coming to life after being dead… Excerpts from Yahoo News (AP) — A U.N. climate conference reached a hard-fought agreement Sunday on a complex and far-reaching program meant to set a new course for the … Continue reading →

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Durban: what the media are not telling you

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley in Durban, South Africa DURBAN, South Africa — “No high hopes for Durban.” “Binding treaty unlikely.” “No deal this year.” Thus ran the headlines. The profiteering UN bureaucrats here think otherwise. Their plans to establish … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the Week – occupy Durban

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

You know it had to happen. What better place could there be for the great unwashed to protest? Gotta love the dead green tree growing out of the Earth. Here’s their message: ============================================================== #OccupyCop17: Climate Justice General Assembly Governments of … Continue reading →

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NOAA’s Susan Solomon, still pushing that 2 degrees in spite of limited options

Posted on November 21, 2011 by

From the University of Exeter , more Durban PR rampup: Limited options for meeting 2°C warming target, warn climate change experts We will only achieve the target of limiting global warming to safe levels if carbon dioxide emissions begin to … Continue reading →

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The Fate of All Carbon

Posted on November 13, 2011 by

Guest post by David Archibald The fate of all carbon is Davy Jones’ locker. Following the post on the imminent decline in world oil production and the effect that would have on agricultural operating costs at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/27/peak-oil-now-for-the-downslope/, let’s have a … Continue reading →

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Pacific Gas and Electric: not so climate smart after all

Posted on November 12, 2011 by

When you can’t sell this on the green left coast, you know its gotta fail worldwide. Gotta love this quote, one of the best denials of reality I’ve ever seen:

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China’s climate ca$h blackmail

Posted on November 8, 2011 by

Who says you can get rid of entitlements? WUWT covered this issue over HFC-23 production previously in The biggest environmental scandal in history. It seems it is about to get bigger. China just decided to blackmail the brilliant minds soon to … Continue reading →

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An ironic juxtaposition of our elders and CO2

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

A strange juxtaposition in the news today about our older generation, carbon dioxide, and climate change. It seems the past 60 crowd produce less CO2 in their activities than the rest of us. It seems they also believe it affects … Continue reading →

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Study: ‘green’ biofuels could be costing the earth

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

From the University of Leicester  department of inconvenient truths: New study suggests EU biofuels are as carbon intensive as petrol University of Leicester research into greenhouse gas emissions from oil palm plantations provides robust measures now being used to inform … Continue reading →

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Maryland, quite possibly even more la-la land than California

Posted on November 2, 2011 by

While California has committed economic suicide with their ridiculous carbon trading plan that nobody wants, Maryland seems to think that magically, green jobs and non baseload power sources will “improve reliability” of electric power. From my perspective, seeing how well … Continue reading →

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“Global warming is a bogus proposition…”

Posted on October 8, 2011 by

That headline from  Zhang Musheng, one of China’s most influential intellectuals according to this article in the Sydney Morning Herald. From the article:

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Global Warming Potentials

Posted on October 2, 2011 by

Global Warming Potentials fail because gas concentrations are not “well-mixed” Guest post by Dr. Vincent Gray I came across this revealing statement on page 247 of the IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001). paragraph 4.1.4. Chapter 4 “The atmospheric lifetime is … Continue reading →

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