Tag Archives: greenhouse gas

The effectiveness of CO2 as a greenhouse gas becomes ever more marginal with greater concentration

Posted on May 8, 2013 by

The political target of limiting the effect of Man-made global warming to only +2⁰C can never be attained. Guest essay by Ed Hoskins According to well understood physical parameters, the effectiveness of CO2 as a greenhouse gas diminishes logarithmically with … Continue reading →

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The Tragedy of Climatism: Resource Misuse on a Global Scale

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

By Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times. Last week, thirteen members of the House of Representatives introduced a resolution “recognizing the disparate impact of climate change on women.” The resolution implied that man-made climate change was responsible for … Continue reading →

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Michael Mann says climate models cannot explain the Medieval Warming Period – I say they can’t even explain the present

Posted on April 11, 2013 by

Ice core data shows CO2 levels changed less than 10 parts per million from 1600-1800 during the MWP. From the Hockey Schtick:  A new paper from Schurer et al (with Mann as co-author) finds that climate “models cannot explain the warm … Continue reading →

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A Comparison Of The Earth’s Climate Sensitivity To Changes In The Nature Of The Initial Forcing

Posted on April 5, 2013 by

Guest post by Bob Irvine ABSTRACT The Earth’s feedback response to warming is independent of the nature of the forcing that caused that warming. The question I intend to examine is whether the nature of the forcing will have a … Continue reading →

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In a new study, James Hansen pushes nuclear power as saving more lives than it has harmed

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

This is sure to get some enviros in a tizzy. From Chemical and Engineering News of the American Chemical Society: Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes Climate Change: Study estimates that nuclear energy leads to substantially fewer pollution-related … Continue reading →

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The puzzle: why have rising temperatures been on a ‘Twenty-year hiatus”?

Posted on March 29, 2013 by

Not sure that “sceptical fringe” would apply here, but I’ll take the press where we can get it. See my comments below. – Anthony Twenty-year hiatus in rising temperatures has climate scientists puzzled | The Australian DEBATE about the reality … Continue reading →

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A sea-change on climate sensitivity at The Economist

Posted on March 27, 2013 by

People send me stuff, today it was this “editors picks” from John Micklethwait, editor of The Economist. After years of being pro-warming, I was shocked to see this headline as a “pick”. It seems a change in editorial position may … Continue reading →

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NASA satellite data shows a decline in water vapor

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

Guest post submitted by Ken Gregory, Friends of Science.org An analysis of NASA satellite data shows that water vapor, the most important greenhouse gas, has declined in the upper atmosphere causing a cooling effect that is 16 times greater than … Continue reading →

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‘King’ Obama to circumvent lawful due process on climate

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

FLASHBACK March 2011: Obama on Deporting Illegals ‘America Is a Nation of Laws,’ Presidential Action Not ‘Appropriate’ Obama Administration Moves Forward on Climate Change Without Congress Forthcoming regulation likely means no new coal-fired power plants will be built in the … Continue reading →

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Another geoengineering idea – gaming coalition modeled

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

From the Carnegie Institution  comes a nutty consensus type idea, modeled in game-theory, implemented by an equally nutty future coalition. Law of unintended consequences anyone? Geoengineering by coalition Washington, D.C.—Solar geoengineering is a proposed approach to reduce the effects of … Continue reading →

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The Sanders-Boxer carbon tax will be 15 times costlier than letting warming happen

Posted on February 17, 2013 by

Inter-temporal investment appraisal of the Sanders/Boxer carbon tax bill by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Standard climatological and economic techniques, combined in an investment appraisal of the proposed Sanders/Boxer carbon dioxide tax (U.S. Senate, 2013), show that even at a zero … Continue reading →

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Bob Tisdale shows how ‘Forecast the Facts” Brad Johnson (and now Dr. Heidi Cullen) are fecklessly factless about ocean warming and the blizzard

Posted on February 8, 2013 by

UPDATE2: Gosh. Shouldn’t Dr. Cullen know more than McKibben and Brad Johnson?!  (h/t to Marc Morano) – Anthony Here’s the SST anomaly map she cites as proof in her post about the issue at Climate Central. Note that actual temperatures … Continue reading →

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If you thought global warming is a ‘can of worms’ you were right – Earthworms found to increase GHG emissions

Posted on February 3, 2013 by

Bruce. C. submits this odd story from the Dutch Telegraph, which is likely to have some organic farmers is a tizzy. This is a story that was translated from the Dutch newspaper article, so may not be 100% accurate in … Continue reading →

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Global warming – more complex than we thought

Posted on February 1, 2013 by

From the University of Hawaii ‑ SOEST, more modeling mania for the future. New research shows complexity of global warming Greenhouse gases versus solar heating Global warming from greenhouse gases affects rainfall patterns in the world differently than that from … Continue reading →

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Monetizing the Effects of Carbon

Posted on January 11, 2013 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I see that the New York Times (NYT) is going to close their environmental desk. Given that there still are actual environmental problems on the planet, I consider the closing as a sad commentary on … Continue reading →

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Commitment studies belie “consensus” claim that a persistent high level of temperature forcing cannot cause continued warming

Posted on January 9, 2013 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls They say it all the time: even if there were some substantial mechanism of enhanced solar forcing it couldn’t be responsible for late 20th century warming because solar activity was roughly constant from 1950 to … Continue reading →

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Inconvenient conclusions in a new climate and land use paper

Posted on December 8, 2012 by

Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. sends word of this new paper now in early release at the Journal of Climate. The paper suggests humans have strong impacts on the local climate, but not always through the pathways commonly touted as being … 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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Laughing gas bugs

Posted on November 22, 2012 by

From the University of Tennessee at Knoxville  where they think N2O is no laughing matter. It is another example of Nature’s adaptation. But I have to wonder though why they think this is “unexpected”, because denitrification(bacterial conversion to N2) has … Continue reading →

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US shale gas drives up coal exports

Posted on October 30, 2012 by

From the University of Manchester US CO2 emissions from domestic energy have declined by 8.6% since a peak in 2005, the equivalent of 1.4% per year. However, the researchers warn that more than half of the recent emissions reductions in … Continue reading →

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