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…
Category: Atmospheric physics
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…
A WUWT “Comment Rebuke”
To summarize without any math, the GHE exists. It experimentally must, and easily provably does. The GHE issues are how much when (ECS), not if. Any ‘skeptical’ arguments to the…
Mathematical Proof of the Greenhouse Effect
As a physicist, I’m as certain of the reality of the Greenhouse Effect as I am that 1 + 1 = 2.
Answer to a review of Seim and Olsen paper: “The influence of IR Absorption and Backscatter Radiation from CO2”
By Thorstein Seim and Borgar T. Olsen A review in WattsUpWithThat was performed on our paper by Kevin Kilty. It is found here. The reviewer´s criticism of the paper was…
Deconstructing Wilde and Mulholland’s Analysis of Earth’s Energy Budget
Unfortunately, I expect that it is impossible to say, a priori, what the energy recycling fraction β of an atmosphere will be. I believe it is an emergent property of…
Review of Seim and Olsen paper: “The influence of IR Absorption and Backscatter Radiation from CO2…”
Thus, not only does the calculated irradiance seem in error by about 20% over erroneous use of the Stefan-Boltzmann law, but the known bias of the sensor combined with the…
Complete Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Back in 2015 in a post called “Noise Assisted Data Analysis“, I described a way to decompose a signal into its underlying components. It’s known…
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