Climate models rely very heavily on moist adiabatic assumptions, which contributes to the persistent model-observation mismatch in the tropics, why?
Category: Atmospheric physics
More Sun, Less Sun
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach on X, my personal blog is here.) Well, I had some further insights and questions about the issue of sunshine hours that I discussed…
Pressure Causes Temperature? It’s Time to Climb Down from “Mount Stupid”
There was a recent weeks-long exchange of emails between many climate people — professional and amateur — regarding the idea that air pressure (in combination with absorbed solar energy) is…
Study posits how carbon dioxide cools the upper atmosphere, and warms earth below
Researchers have supposedly solved a long-standing atmospheric puzzle: How rising carbon dioxide cools the stratosphere even as it warms Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere.
Another Study Links Warming to Cloud Forcing, Shortwave Radiation, Natural Atmospheric Circulation
Natural atmospheric circulation patterns (like the Western Tibetan Vortex, or WTV) drive total cloud cover (TCC) change, which, in turn modulate the the amount of downward solar radiation reaching the…
Changing Sunlight, Weather & Climate
…changes in solar intensity across latitudes and seasons are argued here to be a primary driver of the observed patterns and a useful guide for anticipating future regional trends. Broadly,…
At The Heartland Climate Conference: “What Is The Proof?”, Earth’s Energy Imbalance Edition
With regard to EEI, the answer to the question “What Is The Proof?” is that there is no proof.
Proposed Theory of Historical Global Cloud Cover.
This expansion of the CRGW theory is intended to be a possible tool in the investigation of historical climate change to explore what did cloud fraction do as the…
New Research Reaffirms Clouds, Aerosols, And Surface Solar Radiation Are ‘Driving The Climate System’
A 4 W/m² per decade increase in SSR easily explains recent warming. It especially explains warming far better than the alleged 20-times smaller clear-sky-only CO2 impact (0.2 W/m² per decade)…
Changing Sunlight, Weather & Climate
Accumulation of ice at altitude in high latitudes is an early indicator for the eventual ice accumulation down slope and at lower latitudes. Greenland’s largest and most productive glacier, Jacobshavn,…
The Story behind my Paper on the ITCZ and the Hadley Circulation
By Andy May It all began eight years ago when I read and reviewed Ronan and Michael Connolly’s first three papers on their ideas about the “molar density intersection” which…
Slicing the earth to study Cloud Fraction and VPD.
Slicing the earth’s data has revealed expected correlation of sun angle to cloud fraction, VPD, and Enthalpy and interesting correlation to land fraction. The land fraction seems to be related…
From the Surface to Space
Advection not only moves heat over the Earth’s surface to where it can travel more easily from surface to space, but the very dry air in the counterflow of cA…
Change in Reflected Solar Electro-Magnetic Radiation During CERES Era
The misdirected demonising of CO₂ has resulted in climate models that are blind to seasonal changes in solar intensity across the hemispheres and naively embody parameterisation of ice forming and…
How CO2 both Warms and Cools our Atmosphere
Greenhouse warming in the lower atmosphere is balanced by CO2 cooling in the stratosphere. This explains why CO2 concentrations do not correlate with earth’s temperatures over millions of years!
Can Annual Irradiance = Annual Enthalpy? If So, What Does It Show About Climate Change
This mathematical exercise was done to see how close calculated irradiance would come to measured irradiance and to prove that climate models using enthalpy instead of radiation or irradiation were…
SURPRISING: scientists find ties between Earth’s oxygen and magnetic field
The study authors decided to see whether Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere have fluctuated in ways that demonstrate a link.
BOMBSHELL: Study Reveals Climate Warming Driven by Receding Cloud Cover
If climate science were a functioning scientific discipline rather than a priesthood, this paper would trigger a major course correction. It would cast doubt on the simplistic link between CO₂…
Earth’s Energy Imbalance – Part III
This final part of the series explores the issue of regulation of Earth’s climate in light of a small, continuing imbalance between energy input from Sol, and outgoing LWIR –…
Radiation and Matter
Undoubtedly clouds act to lower Earth temperature from what it would be under a cloudless planet – an obvious negative feedback in this sense. However, from the standpoint of orthodox…