They also showed that it is very illogical to think that a slight increase in the up-flux cannot be compensated by a larger down-flux. It’s like increasing the heat energy…
Tag: Carbon dioxide
Scientists show a single catalyst can perform the first step of turning CO2 into fuel in two very different ways
The results represent an important step toward unifying the understanding of catalytic reactions in these two very different conditions with distinct driving forces at play, said Thomas Jaramillo, professor at…
The Cooling Side of Greenhouse Gases
Most people are unaware that the greenhouse gases CO2 and H2O, both warm & cool our planet. When I mention that CO2 has a cooling effect, I’m amazed by the…
Earth Day Connections: NASA Investigates Vegetation
Satellites can detect how “green” an area is – showing the health of plants that are growing in a particular site. While fires, deforestation and drought lead to the tropical…
Plant Growth Takes A Steep Toll On The Soil – Supposedly
Wow! Who would have thought that? When a plant grows, it extracts nutrients and carbon from the soil and converts that into its roots and stem and flowers and seeds.…
Regarding results of GOSAT-2 data analysis and the start of their public release
Column-averaged dry-air mole fractions of carbon dioxide, methane and carbon monoxide retrieved from satellite data NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Science Business Announcement Greenhouse gasses Observing SATellite-2 “IBUKI-2” (GOSAT-2) is…
Scientists identify missing source of atmospheric carbonyl sulfide
Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) report that anthropogenic sources of carbonyl sulfide (OCS), not just oceanic sources, account for much of the missing source of OCS in…
Study: Ancient ocean oxygen levels associated with changing atmospheric carbon dioxide
A Texas A&M-led study analyzed ocean floor sediment cores to provide new insights into the relationship between deep ocean oxygenation and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels in the 50,000 years before…
Unsettled Climate Science: 30 Years Apace
Reposed from the Institute of Energy Research By Robert L. Bradley, Jr. February 14, 2020 Climate activist Emily Akin has called it “the most important climate story of the last…
E. coli bacteria engineered to eat carbon dioxide
What could go wrong? ~cr From Nature Feat could turn bacteria into biological factories for energy and even food. The bacterium Escherichia coli has been engineered to grow by consuming…
'Carbon sink' detected underneath world's deserts
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The world’s deserts may be storing some of the climate-changing carbon dioxide emitted by human activities, a new study suggests. Massive aquifers underneath deserts could hold more…
A Statistical Definition of the 'Hiatus in Global Warming' using NASA GISS and MLO data
Guest essay by Danley Wolfe WUWT posted a piece I submitted last September titled ‘A look at carbon dioxide vs. global temperature’. The main point I was trying to convey…
The Lewis and Crok exposition – Climate less sensitive to Carbon Dioxide than most models suggest
Full papers plus additional comments from co-author Nic Lewis follow. I have added some relevant diagrams and tables from the report, plus reproduced the foreword by Dr. Judith Curry as…
Is Greenpeace facing its Warsawgrad?
Guest opinion by Fred F. Mueller In large-scale wars, there are sometimes prolonged periods of fierce clashes with neither side being able to place the decisive blow that will ultimately…
From 90% to 95% confidence level: How IPCC claims can be at the same time consistent and absurd.
We have been expecting too much from the IPCC about its confidence level increase: the explanation may actually be simple… and surprising. Guest essay by Stephane Rogeau Image: From IPCC…
Claim: Safe long term storage of CO2 is possible
From the GFZ GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Helmholtz Centre , probably too little too late, as CO2 sequestration projects worldwide are closing. Conclusion of an international project for the geological storage of…
Submission to EPA hearing on 'carbon pollution' standards
Currently no scientific or logical basis for regulation of CO2 emissions, logician tells EPA Guest essay by Terry Oldberg Submitted to the EPA’s Public Listening Session on 111(d) Carbon Pollution…
Climate change is dominated by the water cycle, not carbon dioxide
Guest essay by Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times Climate scientists are obsessed with carbon dioxide. The newly released Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
RSS global temperature data: No global warming at all for 202 months
Guest essay by Christopher Monckton As soon as the BBC/Maslowski forecast of no sea ice in the Arctic summer by 2013 has been disproven (see countdown on right sidebar), WUWT…
Climate of Failure: how alternate energy dreams are pie in the sky solutions for emissions
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. had a worthwhile guest essay in Foreign Policy titled: Climate of Failure published last year that Dr. Judith Curry has made a post about today that…
Friday Funny – Katharine Hayhoe: only YOU can control the climate!
@bkparallax @IamDonCheadle the power to change climate lies in hands of every individual on the planet, not a single gov't–or technology! — Prof. Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe) August 29, 2013 With…
Global Warming = Climate Change
Guest Essay by Ed Hoskins This short essay questions the actions to combat Global Warming / Climate Change from three points of view: The Temperature Context Man-made CO2 emissions 1965…
Nature puts methane hydrate fears to rest – says it will be 1,000 years before they make any impact
WUWT reader “Jos” advises in Tips and Notes of this essay in Nature’s Knowledge Project. Excerpts follow: Methane Hydrates and Contemporary Climate Change Concern about the long-term stability of global…
AGU says CO2 is plant food
Elevated carbon dioxide making arid regions greener 31 May 2013 AGU Release No. 13-24 WASHINGTON, DC—Scientists have long suspected that a flourishing of green foliage around the globe, observed since…
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