When I began this effort I expected to discover that my search for energy imbalance would find a very small number with a very large uncertainty. This is exactly what…
Category: Atmospheric physics
Soundings, Weather Balloons, and Vapor Pressure Deficit
The high VPD air mixes with passing air in the lower cloud zone (cumulus clouds altitude) and retards cloud formation somewhere.
VPD, Vapor Pressure Deficit a Correlation to Global Cloud Fraction?
This paper will explore the relationship between global VPD and global Cloud Fraction (Cover), CC.
The Effect of a Colder Solid’s Thermal Radiation on a Warmer Solid Exposed to Sunlight
It is experimentally shown that the thermal radiation from a transparent, colder solid has the capacity to influence a solid warmer than it to become even warmer, under the right…
Hunga Tonga volcano: impact on record warming
I present arguments that support the view that we are facing an extraordinary and extremely rare natural event in climate history.
Of Heat Engines: an Addendum
The atmosphere is not static. It is dynamic and it is bootstrapping its way into a deeper and deeper layer of instability.
Of Heat Engines and Refrigerators
The atmosphere is less a heat engine than a collection of many self-running refrigerators/dehumidifiers operating in different ways to carry heat largely from surface to tropopause locally and the balance…
Negligible future warming from: CO2 – CH4 – N2O
As at its current concentration atmospheric CO2 at 420 ppmv is already more than 85% saturated, its Global warming potential is almost entirely exhausted.
Model Atmospheres
”…no one knows just how the complicated climate system of Earth’s atmosphere will respond to the small forcings [of GHGs].”
Does GHG Forcing Have Significantly Less Efficacy Than a Similar Sized Solar Forcing?
Is it possible that the Effective Radiative Forcing (ERF) of a small change in GHG forcing is a lot lower than the ERF for a similar change in solar forcing?…
Climate fearmongering reaches stratospheric heights
entitling such a paper “Exceptional stratospheric contribution to human fingerprints on atmospheric temperature” is essentially a non sequitur on the issue of global warming.
Thermosphere is Cooling, Bad for Satellites. Thermosphere is Heating, Bad for Satellites.
Thermospheric cooling, CO2 and models are proved again, bad for satellites. Thermospheric warming, it’s that damn sun and its storms, bad for satellites.
Nitrous Oxide and Climate
Nitrous oxide (N20) has now joined carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) in the climate alarm proponents’ pantheon of anthropogenic “demon” gases.
Outside the Black Box: Back to Basics
For the anthropogenic part it’s pretty clear: with a growth to a maximum CO2-level of 560 ppm, even under a realistic ‘business as usual’ scenario [11], there is certainly no…
Thermodynamics of the Climate System
The climate system comprises the fluid envelopes of Earth: the atmosphere, oceans, and cryosphere. Those constituents, along with the evolving surface properties of the solid lithosphere, are responsible for reflecting…
How Pressure Systems Control Climate Part 3
HOW THE SUN AND INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ) CONTROLLED CLIMATE AND CIVILIZATION COLLAPSES Jim Steele To ensure we properly adapt to future devastating weather events, we must correctly understand natural…
Air bubbles in Antarctic ice point to cause of oxygen decline
Glacial erosion likely caused atmospheric oxygen levels to dip over past 800,000 years
Alaska student’s research upends understanding of upper atmospheric wind
Itani confirmed that the cross-polar jet, a well-known wind in the upper atmosphere, sometimes inexplicably stops or is deflected or reversed when it reaches the region above Alaska.
Earths Energy Imbalance
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I see that there’s a new post up on WUWT claiming that eeevil humans are responsible for the increase in earth’s energy imbalance, which is…
Claim: ‘Less than 1% probability’ that Earth’s energy imbalance increase occurred naturally, say Princeton and GFDL scientists
“The satellite record provides clear evidence of a human-influenced climate system,” they said. “Knowing that human activity is responsible for the acceleration of planetary heat uptake implies the need for…
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