From AGU highlights: Clouds, which can absorb or reflect incoming radiation and affect the amount of radiation escaping from Earth’s atmosphere, remain the greatest source of uncertainty in global climate…
Tag: Atmosphere of Earth
Dr. Vincent Gray on historical carbon dioxide levels
NZCLIMATE TRUTH NEWSLETTER NO 312 JUNE 4th 2013 CARBON DIOXIDE There are two gases in the earth’s atmosphere without which living organisms could not exist. Oxygen is the most abundant,…
Premature 400 PPM fail-a-bration
It seems we didn’t reach 400PPM last week after all. The data has been revised. Ooops. ‘Carbon dioxide measurements in the Earth’s atmosphere did not break the symbolic milestone of…
A misinterpreted claim about a NASA press release, CO2, solar flares, and the thermosphere is making the rounds
I loathe having to write this story because I truly dislike giving any attention to the people who are known as the “slayers” from the “Slaying the Sky Dragon” book.…
Study suggests 'snowball Earth' was real and was reversed by 'An ultra-high carbon dioxide atmosphere'
It makes you wonder what created all that CO2 millions of years ago. From Louisiana State University LSU researchers find new information about ‘Snowball Earth’ period It is rather difficult…
The Forcing Conundrum
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach. For all of its faults, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) lays out their idea of the climate paradigm pretty clearly. A fundamental part…
That CO2 is powerful stuff, now causes satellites to be threatened in orbit due to lingering space debris
From the “CO2 is there anything it can’t do department” comes this ridiculous piece of research making the rounds in the MSM that worries about something that has not been…
Some thoughts on radiative transfer and GHG's
Guest post by Reed Coray The following example illustrates the issues I have with reasoning often used to argue that increasing the amount of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere will…
So Dinosaurs Could Fly ! – Part I
A look at diminishing atmospheric pressure Guest post by Andi Cockroft In an unrelated article of mine on Isostacy and Mean Sea Level posted here, I mentioned in passing a…
Pilot video for a series: Bill Scientific – "The Greenhouse Effect"
Guest post by Bill DiPuccio, Science Teacher Let’s face it, high school science videos can be boring and ineffective. I like my science with a twist of comic exaggeration. So…
Global annualized temperature – "full of [snip] up to their eyebrows"
Guest Post by Dr. Robert Brown, Physics Dept. Duke University [elevated from comments] Dr. Brown mentions “global temperature” several times. I’d like to know what he thinks of this. Dr.…
New paper: AGW may save us from the next ice age
As mentioned in our WUWT story earlier today Increased CO2 Emissions Will Delay Next Ice Age the official press release is now out at Eurekalert and published below. I can…
Cloud cools
Guest post by Erl Happ This post was generated in response to the Christopher Monkton thread. It is not a criticism of Christopher Monkton but of our tendency to imagine…
Let the inhaler hoarding begin
First, let’s go back a month, this from the Will Steger Foundation: On Tuesday [August 2nd 2011], State Senator Torres Ray said, “I’m delighted to participate in the air quality…
New NASA paper contradicts Kaufmann et al saying it's volcanoes, not China coal
It seems that there’s a paper (from JeanPaul Vernier at NASA) out that contradicts the findings of Kaufmann et al 2011, where they blame China’s increasing coal consumption for lack…
A new perspective on climate science and wind power
Reposted from Dr. Roger Pielke Senior’s blog: A New Perspective On Climate Science By L. Miller, F. Gans and A. Kleidon It is not often that a new perspective is proposed in climate…
Earth's changing atmosphere
Guest Post by Erl Happ This article investigates the sources of natural climate variation. This is a long post but it’s a big subject. Before you get half way through,…
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