I find this paper (PDF) interesting, but it still does not address the temperature/CO2 800 year time lag seen in ice core records. h/t to Leif Svalgaard – Anthony Fossil…
Category: Carbon dioxide
New paper on mathematical analysis of GHG
Polynomial Cointegration Tests of the Anthropogenic Theory of Global Warming Michael Beenstock and Yaniv Reingewertz – Department of Economics, The Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Israel. Abstract: We use statistical methods…
Forests in the Eastern United States are growing faster than they have in the past 225 years
From the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center blog: “The chief culprit appears to be climate change, more specifically, the rising levels of atmospheric CO2, higher temperatures and longer growing seasons.” This…
New paper in Nature on CO2 amplification: "it's less than we thought"
Amplification of Global Warming by Carbon-Cycle Feedback Significantly Less Than Thought, Study Suggests from ScienceDaily (Jan. 28, 2010) — A new estimate of the feedback between temperature and atmospheric carbon…
EPA's CO2 endangerment finding challenged today in the U.S. Senate
Excerpts from the: Murkowski tries anew to block EPA regulators By ERIKA BOLSTAD WASHINGTON — Sen. Lisa Murkowski took her battle with the Environmental Protection Agency to the floor of…
Brookhaven National Laboratory: Why Hasn't Earth Warmed as Much as Expected?
From the BNL press release, some serious questions about climate sensitivity and aerosols. Why Hasn’t Earth Warmed as Much as Expected? New report on climate change explores the reasons January…
Sensor problems with ship based CO2 flux measurements – readings too high, affected by humidity
From a National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) press release Measuring carbon dioxide over the ocean Reliable measurements of the air-sea flux of carbon dioxide – an important greenhouse gas –…
Spencer: Clouds Dominate CO2 as a Climate Driver Since 2000
By Dr. Roy Spencer, PhD. Last year I posted an analysis of satellite observations of the 2007-08 global cooling event, showing evidence that it was due to a natural increase…
Climate change: proposed personal briefing
A letter sent from: The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley 1 January 2010 His Excellency Mr. Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister, Commonwealth of Australia. Prime Minister, Climate change: proposed personal briefing Your…
No Increase of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction in Past 160 Years
I’ve been getting a lot of requests to cover this story, probably 20 or so now with wonderings about “why haven’t you covered this yet?” How quickly you all forget.…
BBC botches grade school CO2 science experiment on live TV – with indepedent lab results to prove it
WUWT readers may recall this story from November 3rd NOAA deletes an “inconvenient” kids science web page where NOAA took down a web page called “It’s a gas, man” that talked…
NASA says AIRS satellite data shows positive water vapor feedback
From this NASA press release I’ll have more on this later. The timing of this release is interesting. › Play animation (Quicktime) | › Play animation (Windows Media Player) ›…
The EPA CO2 regulation – Dec 7th 2009, a day we will not soon forget
EPA’ s Lisa Jackson panders to Copenhagen on opening day. Planned for months of course, with public comment ignored. It is now the people -vs- the EPA, coming to a…
EPA about to declare CO2 dangerous – ssshhh! – Don't tell the trees
I can’t find the words to describe the illogic behind the EPA with this ruling. Perhaps it is best to say that bureaucrats don’t understand anything but regulations and leave…
Oh snap! CO2 causes some ocean critters to build more shells
And some thought ocean acidification would destroy everything. “We were surprised that some organisms didn’t behave in the way we expected under elevated CO2″…“They were somehow able to manipulate CO2…to…
Intensive land-management leaves Europe without carbon sinks
Away from Climategate and back to science, here’s something interesting fingering land use as an issue. This is from the Max Planck Society. A new calculation of Europe’s greenhouse gas…
CO2 and ocean uptake – maybe slowing
While this article makes a strong case, looking at SST and CO2 can also be revealing: A review of this WUWT post might also be instructive: A look at human…
Every cloud has a silver lining – Antarctic glacier retreat creates new carbon dioxide store
From a British Antarctic Survey Press Release. Next time some alarmist wails about ice melt in Antarctica, point them to this story that shows nature has self regulating features for…
Bombshell from Bristol: Is the airborne fraction of anthropogenic CO2 emissions increasing? – study says "no"
Controversial new climate change results University of Bristol Press release issued 9 November 2009 New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide…
EPA sends CO2 endangerment finding to the White House
Excerpts from Reuters story: EPA C02 endangerment finding to White House By Tom Doggett WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has sent its final proposal on whether carbon…
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