The WMO World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases begins provision of data from the GOSAT

National Institute for Environmental Studies These are sample satellite data maps providing a data overview. Credit: NIES The World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases (WDCGG; a World Data Centre (WDC)…

How sensitive is the climate to greenhouse gases?

Nicholas Lewis gave a keynote lecture with the Title “How sensitive is the climate to greenhouse gases?” – Is it really necessary to reach zero emissions in 2050? At our…

China’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rising At ‘Alarming Rate’

From the place you’d least expect….CNN Chinese methane emissions are rising at an alarming rate despite recent government regulations aimed at curbing the climate-changing pollutant, a new report has revealed. A…

Changes in agriculture could cut sector non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions by up to 50 percent

From Eurekalert Public Release: 17-Dec-2018 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis The agricultural sector is the world’s largest source of non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions, and IIASA-led research has found that…

Surging levels of greenhouses gases are making people tired and stupid, scientists claim

Or: Surging levels of greenhouses gases are making people tired and stupid, scientists claim From The Daily Mail Higher CO2 in poorly ventilated places can make workers feel tired and…

Greenhouse gasses triggering more changes than we can handle

From Eurekalert Public Release: 19-Nov-2018 Prediction is, by 2100, the number of hazards occurring concurrently will increase, making it even more difficult for people to cope University of Hawaii at…

Claim: Air Pollution, Not Greenhouse Gases, Is the Main Cause of Global Warming

NOTE: I don’t necessarily agree with this [at all], but I thought it worth exposing – Anthony In a recent article in the Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International,…

MIT: Climate tipping point busted – globe needs to reach 152°F before runaway greenhouse effect kicks in

Current trend of “global warming” isn’t enough to get there, says MIT scientist. How Earth sheds heat into space New insights into the role of water vapor may help researchers…

California Governor to Launch his “Own D*mn Satellite” to Monitor Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Providing climate data to the world is apparently a top Californian government spending priority. ‘We’re launching our own damn satellite’ — Gov. Jerry Brown says…

Gov. Brown blames “greenhouse gases” for his flawed forest management policy leading to wildfire devastation

Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The L A Times published yet another climate alarmist Ca. wildfire story quoting Gov. Brown claim that the states recent wildfires are driven by man…

Claim: Greenhouse gases linked to degrading plastic

Several greenhouse gases are emitted as common plastics degrade in the environment, according to researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology(SOEST). Mass production of plastics…

Why we don’t need to be in the Paris Climate accord: While the world surges in greenhouse gas production, USA drops for third straight year

Newsbytes tell the story: Global greenhouse gas emissions began rising again last year as the first pick-up in coal burning since 2013 overshadowed a record expansion in renewable energy, a…

Climate Change, due to Solar Variability or Greenhouse Gases? Part B.

By Andy May In a previous post, Part A here, we discussed the role of oceans, the Earth’s orbit, and human greenhouse gas emissions on climate change. In this post…

Climate Change, due to Solar Variability or Greenhouse Gases? Part A.

By Andy May It’s more likely mostly due to both, but that isn’t really the question. Virtually everyone accepts that climate changes and that CO2 and methane are greenhouse gases;…

Climate study: top 20% of U.S. diet blamed for majority of greenhouse gas emissions

From the  UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN and the “sir, put down that steak or you’ll hurt the planet and I’ll be forced to arrest you” department comes this study that blames…

‘Flaws in Applying Greenhouse Warming to Climate Variability’, a post-mortem paper by Dr. Bill Gray

Personal Note: Dr. Gray was in the process of writing up the results discussed below when he passed away in 2016. Before he died, he asked us to compile his figures…

Inconvenient: California Governor Jerry Brown has been usurped in the battle of greenhouse gases – by nature

This is hilarious, from Columnist Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee. Gov. Jerry Brown hopped around Europe for two weeks last month, telling the world that to avoid a climate…

After the “catastrophe signal’ – When science entered the policy greenhouse

Guest essay by Bernie Lewin A new book on the origins of the global warming movement tells how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was first pressed into policy based…

Inconvenient: worms, clams, release as much greenhouse gas as 20,000 dairy cows

From CARDIFF UNIVERSITY and the “inconvenient critters” department. Baltic clams and worms release as much greenhouse gas as 20,000 dairy cows New study shows that oceans with worms and clams enhance…

Ozone treaty taking a bite out of US greenhouse gas emissions

Public Release: 14-Aug-2017 American Geophysical Union From Eurekalert WASHINGTON D.C. — The Montreal Protocol, the international treaty adopted to restore Earth’s protective ozone layer in 1989, has significantly reduced emissions…

Underground magma triggered Earth’s worst mass extinction with greenhouse gases

From The Guardian There are parallels between today’s and past greenhouse gas-driven climate changes Howard Lee Tuesday 1 August 2017 06.00 EDT Last modified on Tuesday 1 August 2017 06.02…

'Dodgy' greenhouse gas data threatens Paris accord

From The BBC By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent From the section Science & Environment Potent, climate warming gases are being emitted into the atmosphere but are not being recorded in…

L A Times article deceptively hides 750 million metric tons of U.S. Greenhouse Gas emission reductions

Guest essay by Larry Hamlin An April 16, 2017 L A Times article entitled “Climate goal in peril” presents a graph which portrays US greenhouse gas emission reductions as falling…

A Reverse Greenhouse Effect

Guest Post By Willis Eschenbach [See two Updates at the end] Here’s an oddity. Some very clever folks have invented a plastic film that cools surfaces by as much as…