Guest post by Willis Eschenbach The upcoming Copenhagen climate summit, officially and ponderously named “COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009”, is aimed at reducing the emissions of the…
Category: Carbon dioxide
What does a reduction to 350 PPM of CO2 get you?
With some hubub recently over the 350.org day (designed to highlight the opinion that we must return the Earth to a 350 parts per million atmospheric CO2 level) I thought…
CO2 report – estimated to be "highest in 15 million years"
Another paper for the Copenhagen train. This is an estimate according to the abstract. Here’s the abstract and the supplemental information, of course the publicly funded paper is behind the…
The Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty Draft – wealth transfer defined, now with new and improved "dignity" penalty
This is the draft of the Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty currently out of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change working group dated September 15th. Thanks to Alan MacRae…
MIT develops a plan for carbon sequestration coal fired power plant
Prediction – greens still won’t be able to get past the word “coal”. From MIT News: David L. Chandler, MIT News Office, September 17, 2009 Researchers at MIT have shown…
U.S. Treasury: The Costs of Cap and Trade, $1761 per year per household.
Big differences seen compared to EIA estimate. Documents (link to PDF) obtained from the U.S. Treasury under the Freedom of Information Act by the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute were released…
Research claim: dropping CO2 caused formation of Antarctic ice cap
Meanwhile today while CO2 is increasing, the Antarctic ice cap is also increasing. Bill Illis writes about it: Ice sheets formed in Antarctica about 35 million years ago when CO2…
Some preliminary results from GOSAT – CO2 hot spots in interesting places
WUWT reader Anna V. alerts us to the preliminary report from the JAXA GOSAT Project. According to the project website: The Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) Project is a joint…
More oxygen – colder climate
If this is true,with the biomass photosynthesis of CO2 and converting it to oxygen, it would seem to point to a self regulating effect of the biosphere on climate.The new…
German Climate Adviser who says "the West's carbon quotas are used up" once co-authored a paper saying climate models are flawed and that "global warming is also overestimated by the models"
Yesterday on WUWT, a post from Luboš Motl told us how climate science has been proposed as a vehicle for wealth redistribution by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber who is the director…
I wonder why Greenpeace never protests in Qatar?
This is the sort of political image of CO2 emissions that you usually see presented. The Big Bad USA and Australia get most of the blame for CO2 emissions. Image…
National Association of Wheat Growers reverses policy on climate change – opposes EPA regulation
From DTN News: NAWG Reverses Policy on Climate Change (story link here) A statement Friday from Karl Scronce, National Association of Wheat Growers president and a wheat producer from Klamath…
Slump shows up in USA CO2 output for 2008 and 2009 – economy driven?
The Monthly Energy Review for August 2009 has been published by the US Energy Information Administration and it has some interesting CO2 production data which you can see here in…
Atmospheric Temperature and Carbon Dioxide: Feedback or Equilibrium?
R. Taylor writes in to Tips and Notes to WUWT with this. Anthony: If you shift Vostok temperatures by reasonable time lags, and use reasonable parameters for an equilibrium between…
Insufficient Forcing Uncertainty
It seems depending on who you talk to, climate sensitivity is either underestimated or overestimated. In this case, a model suggests forcing is underestimated. One thing is clear, science does…
CO2, Soot, Modeling and Climate Sensitivity
Warming Caused by Soot, Not CO2 From the Resilient Earth Submitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Wed, 07/15/2009 – 13:19 A new paper in Science reports that a careful study…
"There appears to be something fundamentally wrong with the way temperature and carbon are linked in climate models."
From e! sciencenews Global warming: Our best guess is likely wrong Published: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 – 11:45 in Earth & Climate Rice University/Photos.com No one knows exactly how much Earth’s…
50 Grand tab for AB32 Global Warming Solutions Act – Nevada looking better and better.
For those that don’t operate a business in California like I do, I was surprised today to learn that Sacramento State College of Business Administration and Center for Small Business…
G-8 Summit drops CO2 targets, keeps 2 degree temperature goal
Legislating temperature limits to 2°C will surely be more effective than legislating alcohol. Right? Developing Nations Rebuff G-8 on Curbing Pollutants By PETER BAKER New York Times L’AQUILA, Italy —…
EPA's Jackson and Energy Sec. Chu on the Senate hot seat
In case you missed the debate on the Senate floor today over the Waxman-Markey bill, here is a video segment of interest. Jackson agrees that the USA effect on global…
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