Study Reveals Chemical Link between Wildfire Smoke and Ozone Depletion

“This chemistry, once you get past that point, is well-established,” Solomon says. “Once you have less nitrogen dioxide, you have to have more chlorine monoxide, and that will deplete ozone.”

Claim: 'Severe ozone depletion avoided '

From the University of Leeds We are already reaping the rewards of the Montreal Protocol, with the ozone layer in much better shape than it would have been without the…

Who would have guessed it? Sunlit snow key to Arctic ozone depletion

I like this study from the NSF, because they did hands-on empirical measurements and experiments to make  the determination – Anthony Sunlit Snow Triggers Atmospheric Cleaning, Ozone Depletion in the…

Ozone depletion trumps greenhouse gas increase in jet-stream shift

From Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Depletion of Antarctic ozone is a more important factor than increasing greenhouse gases in shifting the Southern Hemisphere jet stream in a southward…

The Ozone Hole and Lower Stratospheric Temperature

Should the Montreal Protocol be terminated?

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #587

Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.” — Benjamin Franklin (1722)

Hunga Tonga-Hunga eruption sent enough water vapor into the stratosphere to cause a rapid change in chemistry

The tremendous amount of water vapor that this volcano sent to the stratosphere led to a rapid production of sulfate aerosol particles that we were able to observe within days…

Reconciling with Nature – God and Qantas (Part 1, Arriving London)

Guest essay by Dr. Jennifer Marohasy There is a tendency, that must be resisted, for 21st century Western scientists to claim every discovery of mass death as a catastrophe and…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #572

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

Failed Prediction Timeline CR Backup 7_18_23

FilterTopicAcid RainArctic Sea IceBiodiversityClimate ChaosClimate ModelsDroughtsEmperor PenguinsEnvironmental Disaster/PollutionEnvironmental RefugeesFamineHeat WavesHurricanesLandfillsNew Ice AgeOverpopulationOzone DepletionPeak OilSea Level RiseSnowTemperature RisePrediction made byA GeologistAl GoreBarry CommonerBob WoodruffDavid VinerGeorge J KuklaGeorge MonbiotGordon BrownHelena KuklaHubbertHussein ShihabIPPCInternational…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #558

On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. So do not take the lecture too seriously, feeling that you really have to understand…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #548

“It is easy to forget that science offers more than a body of knowledge and a process for adding new knowledge. It tells us not only what we know but…

Failed Prediction Timeline

FilterTopic1.5 Degree ThresholdAcid RainArctic Sea IceBiodiversityClimate ChaosClimate ModelsDroughtsEnvironmental Disaster/PollutionEnvironmental RefugeesFamineHeat WavesHurricanesLandfillsMelting PermafrostNew Ice AgeOverpopulationOzone DepletionPeak OilSea Level RiseSnowTemperature RisePrediction made byA GeologistAl GoreAqsa Younas RanaBarry CommonerBob WoodruffDaniel P. MonahanDavid VinerGeorge…

Claim: Discovery Reveals Large, Year-Round Ozone Hole Over Tropics

An ozone hole, seven times larger than the Antarctic ozone hole, is currently sitting over tropical regions and has been since the 1980s, according to a Canadian researcher.

Weekly Climate And Energy News Roundup #502

The Week That Was: 2022-04-30 (April 30, 2022)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “So, first of all, let me assert my…

The Power of the Li’l Green Group in PBS Frontline’s “The Power of Big Oil”

Frontline apparently accepts, without any question whatsoever, every bit of Al Gore et al.’s guilt-by-association accusation from the core people who promulgate it. They inadvertently reinforce how global warming is not actually…

Atmospheric Fingerprint

By Andy May The IPCC believes that the change in solar radiation over the past 60 years nets to zero and has no trend beyond the normal ~11-year solar cycle.…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #485

Quote of the Week: It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some…

Iodine in desert dust destroys ozone

If iodine from dust was chemically transformed into an ozone-depleting form in the stratosphere, Volkamer said, “well, that’d not be good, as it could delay the recovery of the ozone…

Weekly Energy and Climate News Roundup #474

Quote of the Week: “Nullius in verba” – The Royal Society [UK]

IPCC AR6: Breaking the hegemony of global climate models

Well, I’ve been reading the fine print of the IPCC AR6 WG1 Report. The authors are to be congratulated for preparing a document that is vastly more intellectually sophisticated than…

Aussie ABC: The Southern Annular Mode Ozone Recovery Ate our Global Warming

You’ve got to hand it to Climate Alarmists – when they want to reach for an excuse for why the world is failing to warm, they don’t have far to…

Claim: 1987 Montreal Ozone Rules Held Back “Scorched Earth” Extreme Global Warming

According to a new study, the Montreal protocol is protecting the ability of plants to absorb CO2, preventing an 0.8C surge in global warming.

New Confirmation that Climate Models Overstate Atmospheric Warming

Two new peer-reviewed papers from independent teams confirm that climate models overstate atmospheric warming and the problem has gotten worse over time, not better.