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Humanitarian. Mental Health Professional. Climate Science Research.

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27 days
New study: Water vapor is 84x better at absorbing radiation than CO2. CO2 and T are negatively correlated 42% of the last 50 million years. Clouds drove 89% of 1982-2018 warming. "CO2..lacks sufficient enthalpy to have any measurable [climate] effect"
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New study: Scientists set out to verify there is a current human-induced "climate crisis" using 200 years of Greece climate data. Instead they find decreasing extremes. "The current period can be characterized as normal without notable climatic events".
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New study: • 2001-2020 "global greening is an indisputable fact" • 55% of global areas greening, 7% browning • CO2 fertilization is the dominant driver of greening for 76% of the globe • Drought trends cannot overtake positive CO2 fertilization effect
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1 year
Scientists use 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 to inflate Antarctic ice losses 3000% more than observed. Observation: Antarctic ice shelves gained +661 Gt of mass from 2009-'19. Assumption: Antarctic ice shelf lost -20,028 Gt from 2009-'19, a ~30-fold distortion.
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New paper: 74% of the globe's land area has undergone increased greening during 1981-2016, predominantly driven by elevated CO2 concentrations and warmer temperatures. The greening has, in turn, led to 12.4% net growth in the globe's carbon sink.
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New study: Poland's July temperatures hit 20.6°C in Medieval times, whereas they're only 17.4°C today - not much different than Little Ice Age levels. North America and Europe's mean annual temperatures are nearly the lowest of the last 4,500 years too.
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New study: • CO2 "only affects a small range of long-wave re-radiation from the surface of the Earth." • "CO2 is not the cause of climate change." • Solar cycles suggest the next glaciation has begun (2020). • CO2 is "fundamental" to life on Earth.
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New study: "global warming is not caused by increased CO2" "neither the increase in CO2...nor global warming can be stopped by reducing combustion" "the rate of change in CO2 concentration is controlled, not by emissions, but by the global temperature"
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3 Ph.D physicists have conducted multiple experiments showing CO2's capacity to absorb radiation is already saturated at 400 ppm. Thus, increasing CO2 has no climatic effect. Kubicki et al., 2020, 2022, 2024
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New study: Arctic Siberia was 4°C warmer than today 11 to 15k years ago, when CO2 was ~240 ppm. Siberia was 3.5-5°C warmer than today 19-26k years ago (CO2 190 ppm). Horses, rhinos, mammoth could graze on Arctic grass year-round.
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New study: 1000-4000 years ago NH trees grew 322 km farther north than today. Greenland's Vikings grew barley (can't today). Wine grapes grew in northern Britain. There is "no particular correlation between CO2 and temperature" and "no climate crisis".
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1 year
Earth's mean annual T has been calculated to be 14.4°C for 1991-2018. This is the same calculated T from 1877 to 1913 Thus, there  has been “no change in the globally averaged near-surface temperature over the past 100 years”.
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New study: ~9000-year-old tree remains can be found buried under glaciers at elevations 600-700 m higher than where trees grow today (implying >3°C warmer climate). Treelines were still 75-100 m higher during Medieval times and even the 15-17th centuries.
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Greta Thunberg lives in Sweden. According to peer-reviewed science, Sweden was about 3°C to 4°C warmer than now about 6000 to 8000 years ago, when CO2 concentrations lingered around 265 ppm. At 410 ppm CO2, Sweden is colder now (2000s) than any time in the last 9000 years.🤔
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New study: Experimental evidence CO2 doesn't "have any influence…on climate." Solar-heated containers with 100% CO2 are no warmer than containers with 100% non-GHGs (Ar, O2, N2 [air]). Pressure, not GHGs, determines varying altitude temp differentials.
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4 years
New study: Earth is rapidly greening. Rising CO2 is the main reason. Warming helps too. CO2-greening expands Earth's carbon sink. By 2100 this will offset 17 years (equivalent) of our CO2 emissions, supplanting the effectiveness of Paris accord policies.
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New study: Error in calculating effects of shortwave cloud forcing on climate spans 82-132 W/m². Total clear-sky climate forcing linked to CO2 since 1750 is 1.8 W/m². Thus, errors in estimating climate forcing are ~60x larger than CO2's alleged effects.
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5 years
In most scientific fields, hypotheses that fail to simulate reality/observations 85% to 100% of the time are rejected immediately. In climate science, when 126 of 126, 111 of 114, 42 of 49 of modeled projections are wrong, they are somehow *still* right. Because, you know, CO2.
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4 years
Greenland's largest glacier (Jakobshavn) has rapidly thickened since 2016. Thickening has been so profound the ice elevations are nearly back to 2010-2011 levels. The nearby ocean has cooled ~1.5°C - a return to 1980s temperatures. Joughin et al., 2020
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9 months
New study: Using rural-only temp data (that removes artificial urban bias) reduces the post-1850 warming trend from 0.89°C to 0.55°C per century. Using a solar forcing (TSI) dataset neglected by the IPCC allows TSI to explain up to 87% of modern warming.
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New study: CO2 increased 24% from 1948-2008 (310→385 ppm). IR flux observations show the CO2 rise delivered a negative radiative imbalance: -0.75 W/m². CO2 had a 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 effect. "atmospheric CO2 increase cannot be the reason for global warming"
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New study: 13,000+ global islands were assessed for coastal change since 1990. 93% of coasts were stable or grew seaward. Coasts grew (net) seaward 402 km² from 2000-2020. For islands losing coastal area, sea level rise was "not the predominant" factor.
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5 years
Antarctic ice cores show not only was the last interglacial (and the 3 before that) much warmer than this interglacial, but the entire 1st Millennium was much warmer than today as well. CO2 levels ranged between 250-280 ppm for all these warmer periods.🤔
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New study: Sea levels were ~9.5 m higher than today ~8000 yrs ago (White Sea), then fell to ~7 m higher than today ~4000 yrs ago, then plummeted to today, the lowest levels since last glaciation. Past sea level change rates reached 35-100 mm per yr.
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New study: W. Antarctica cooled -1.8°C (-0.93°C/decade) from 1999-2018. Most of the continent also cooled >1°C. Of 28 CMIP6 models, none captured this cooling. This "implies substantial uncertainties in future temperature projections of CMIP6 models".
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1 year
New study: Since the 1970s 90% of the warming has been driven by the increase in shortwave forcing (due to cloud decline). Warming leads, drives the CO2 increase: 83 ppm/1°C. The contribution to warming from human CO2 has been 0.03°C since 1980.
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New study: Scientists (IPCC, NSIDC) predicted Arctic sea ice would decline rapidly as CO2 rose from 385 (2007) to 422 ppm (2023). But there's been no change in summer sea ice area in 17 years, and "no apparent correlation" between CO2 and sea ice trends.
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3 years
New study: 1. CO2 molecules "are not the main radiator of the atmosphere" 2. Change in CO2 concentration "would not lead to change in the outgoing radiative flux" 3. Climate model calculations of CO2's climate sensitivity are in error by a factor of 5.
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For the last 425m years, CO2 and temperature (T) were uncorrelated 77.9% of the time. When there was a correlation, 60% were NEGATIVE (↑CO2 → T↓). "Changes in atmospheric CO2 concentration did not cause temperature change in the ancient climate."
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New study: "There can be no climate equilibrium state that can be perturbed by an increase in the atmospheric concentration of CO2..." "CO2 can have no measurable effect on ocean temperatures." "There can be no 'climate sensitivity' to CO2."
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North Atlantic (NA) sea level rose +3.9 mm/yr between 1993-2004. From 2005-2016, NA sea level plummeted -7.1 mm/yr. These trends coincide with the dramatic 2°C NA cooling since 2004...which has spread to the Greenland ice sheet.
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New study: IPCC models assume the Sun has no climate impact, so flat-trend TSI reconstructions are used. The Sun's real climate impact may be 4-7x larger than TSI forcing alone. Alternative records have the Sun's impact directly linked to global temps.
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New study: There is a "major discrepancy" between observations and climate models in water vapor trends. Models say specific humidity should increase, but there's been no SH increase since 1980. Models get relative humidity trends 10-fold wrong too.
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New study: Million-year variations in cosmic rays (CR) modulating cloud cover are the dominant cause of million-year climate variations, explaining all 7 Ice Age epochs. CO2 and solar luminosity cannot explain past climate variations, as they cancel out.
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8 months
New study: CO2 hit 383 ppm from 1939-1943 per a collection of 97,404 air measurements (which are 10x more accurate than ice core proxies) analyzed from 979 technical papers spanning 1826-2008. Only 12 ppm of the 100 ppm CO2 rise since 1958 is manmade.
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6 months
New study: E. Mediterranean summer temps were 1.5°C to 3°C "greater than the present" from about 11,000 to 7,000 years ago, when CO2 levels were approximately 265 ppm. Then the temperatures "followed a gradual decline towards present-day conditions".
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1 year
New study: Roman, Medieval Warm Periods 2.8°C warmer than today (China). "warm intervals during the RWP (403–413 CE), with a temperature 2.89°C higher than...1970–2000 CE, and during the MWP (864–882 & 965–994 CE), when the temperature was 2.81°C higher"
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New study: Sea levels were 2-5 m higher than present 4000-7000 years ago in the tropics (Thailand) before they fell to today's levels. These higher sea levels are evidenced by beach ridges at 4 m elevations found 6 km inland from current shorelines.
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2 years
New study: It takes an EU citizen 12 years of driving the same EV to realize a net CO2 emissions "savings" vs. a gasoline car. “total CO2 emissions will be much lower with continued use of the old...combustion car instead of buying a new electric one” 😳
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6 months
There's 67x more CO2 in the oceans than the air, as 1000s of vents pour 98-99% CO2 through the seafloor incessantly.👇 Atmospheric CO2 levels rose from 0.032% to 0.042% since 1953. Yet it's claimed 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 0.01% CO2 change drives ocean "acidification".🤔
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4 years
New paper: The Earth's ocean heat content has been falling (-0.26 W/m²/dec) since 2000, coinciding with a similar drop in the Earth's energy imbalance. The authors acknowledge such trends are "surprising" considering greenhouse gas emissions have risen.
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5 years
Mars has 950,000 ppm CO2 in its atmosphere. Despite this huge CO2 "greenhouse" the Martian surface cools to space by 15-20°F within a meter because "there is little to retain heat on the planet". So 95% CO2 is too little for Mars, but 0.04% CO2 retains too much heat on Earth?
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5 years
A new paper shows West Antarctica (WAIS), SSTs near South Chile, and the entire region between 50-70°S have not warmed since the early 1980s. The region was 2°C warmer 1000 years ago and today's temps (12.1°C) are the coldest of the last 2300 years.
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New study: Critical review of a methodologically-flawed "99.5% consensus" study finds 67% of 3000 scientific papers analyzed actually reject the AGW paradigm when it is not just assumed 2104 "uncertain" papers with "no position" on AGW support AGW anyway.
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6 months
New study: Longwave (LW) radiation data (71 sites) indicate the post-1900 CO2 rise (300→420 ppm) "has not altered, in a discernible manner, the greenhouse effect [GHE]". All-sky LW radiation has even been declining - the opposite of a CO2-enhanced GHE.
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New study: CERES data show a falling -0.0019/decade albedo (clouds) trend since 2000 eliciting a +1.4 W/m² positive imbalance. This sufficiently explains the radiative forcing responsible for warming. Albedo changes are natural. Thus, warming is natural.
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3 years
The Lancet: 89,821 of 100,160 (89.7%) COVID infections (age 60+) were fully vaxxed (Weeks 39-42, UK). 3.4% (3,395) were unvaxxed. It's "grossly negligent to ignore the vaccinated population as a...relevant source of transmission".
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3 years
New study: • Water, clouds drive climate and the "idea" CO2 does is "naïve" • Human energy production (GHGs) is 2100x smaller than natural energy flux • Human emissions contribute "only 3.8% to the global carbon cycle" • Temperature causes CO2 changes
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5 years
What's the difference between human-caused climate change activists and human-caused climate change skeptics?
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8 months
New study: Per climate models, rising CO2 causes warming. But observations show CO2→T variance is "impressively low (10-15%) in this direction and impressively high (reaching 90%) in the opposite direction," T→CO₂. "T as the cause, CO2 as the effect"
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4 years
A new (2020) 5680-year tree-ring temperature reconstruction for southern South America - the longest ever for the Southern Hemisphere - shows the warmest era of the last millennium was the 1700s-1800s. The region has had no net warming from 1979-2009.
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2 years
New study: "Little, if any" correlation between CO2 and temps. ~95% of Earth's greenhouse gas effect is from water vapor. A solar minimum just began...leading to ~1°C cooling in 30-40 years. A CO2-drives-global-warming "concept" is obsolete, incorrect.
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New study: From ~9500 to 5000 years ago "extreme climate variations" sustained a green Sahara with tropical trees, grasslands, and lakes with depths up to 300 m high. Then, ~5000 years ago, the Sahara abruptly (centuries) became hyperarid and lifeless.
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A thousand years ago, the Vikings grew corn on their farms during the warmer-than-now summers in "luscious and green" southern Greenland. Their corn crops were "very important for their nourishment and survival". CO2 concentrations were 270 ppm.
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New study: Claiming CO2 changes are 100% human-caused relies on a disparate accounting model, with residence time (RT) for natural CO2 <5 yrs, but RT for human CO2 50-100 yrs. When RT is compared equally (<10 yrs), modern CO2 change is 65-96.5% natural.
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Michael Mann used bristlecone pine from the western US to concoct a 1000-year Northern Hemisphere temperature record resembling a hockey stick. A new 411 BCE to 2016 tree ring temperature record from the northeastern US shows no such hockey stick exists.
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New study: The Horn of Africa and "global tropics as a whole" were "1.6°C warmer than today" during much of the Holocene. Today's mean surface T, 23°C, is among the coldest in 10k years. It was as warm as today ~10k years ago and even ~55-30k years ago.
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2 years
New study: CO2-induced global greening has been detected since the 1980s. Models say this greening will continue in the 21s century. Greening leads to land surface cooling. By 2100, high CO2 emissions will cool the Earth by as much as 0.71°C.😳 Settled!
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5 years
According to a Harvard study, wind turbines cause significant climate warming - more warming than the warming "saved" by switching to wind from fossil fuels. So we're causing more warming with wind power by trying to reduce warming with wind power. And we're smart people?
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New study: The assumed link (left graph) from human CO2 emissions (cause) to temps (effect) is spurious. Fake. Why? Because when differencing the time series (cross-correlation) a CO2→T link disappears (right charts). Spurious correlation ≠ causation.
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1 year
New study: 2 of 100,000 CO2 molecules radiate photons. At the surface (3.5 km), 1 of 20 (5%) CO2 molecules even participate in the radiation process. CO2 concentrations increased by 1 part in 10,000 (0.032% to 0.042%) since 1950.
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5 years
Every morning my bedroom CO2 monitor registers in at over 1000 ppm. This morning it reached a frowny-faced 1017 ppm before declining to its daytime value of ~550 ppm. Why do smart people think 400 ppm CO2 heats and acidifies the ocean, warms the air by 7.2 K, melts glaciers...?
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New study: 7,000 years ago the sea levels were 7 m higher than present in northern Norway (Arctic). They've fallen ~0.8 m per 1,000 years since. Falling sea levels led to abandoned settlements, harbors during Medieval times (not enough water to sail in).
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1-2 million years ago CO2 levels ranged from 225-275 ppm. The Greenland ice sheet (GIS) was 95% ice-free about 280,000 of those years. From 1961-2002, the Greenland ice sheet gained mass as CO2 rose from 317 to 375 ppm. CO2 would not appear to factor in GIS melt variability.
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The Pacific Ocean is 5 km and sometimes 6 km deep. New research says from 2 km to the bottom the Pacific has been robustly and linearly cooling since 1993. The cooling has intensified since 2011. So over half of the Pacific's volume has been cooling.
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This is awkward. New study finds rising CO2 cools air, soil. "temperatures of atmospheric air in mesocosms with substantially higher CO2 concentration (ranging from 3200 ppm to 16900 ppm) were lower than that with the lower CO2 concentration (480 ppm)"
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5 years
Scientists keep publishing papers that show no net warming for Greenland in the last 90 years. Holme et al., 2019 Ruan et al., 2019 Vermassen et al., 2019 Khazendar et al., 2019
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New study: Every year in the UK from 2000-2019 excess deaths attributable to cold temperatures were 80-85x more common than deaths attributable to heat. For every 1.5 heat-related deaths there were 122 cold-related deaths. Cold kills. Warmth saves lives.
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Total greenhouse effect (longwave) forcing from all contributors (water vapor, clouds, CO2) has been declining since 1985. Thus: 1. Total GHE forcing is not driving warming. 2. CO2's effects are too weak to drive total GHE forcing.
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Two more new temperature reconstructions find no net warming since the 1400s in: Central China Southern Brazil
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The 1920s-1940s warmth has long been a problem for climate modelers who assume CO2 drives temperatures. So that's why scientists have decided the data must be changed - or "corrected".
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New studies: Modern (2000 CE) Azores air temps average 10-11°C. Medieval times were 13-15°C, 3-4°C warmer. Today's N. Finland's temps (🔹) are nearly the coldest in 8000 years. It was much warmer 1500-1200 and 7000-3000 years ago.
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Oops. All this time the wrong model has been used to project future greenhouse warming-induced desertification/aridity. Now, with a different model, we learn global drylands will not expand as CO2 emissions rise. Settled science! Berg & McColl, 2021
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Molecular and atomic physicist/textbook author (): 80-98% of greenhouse effect is due to H2O and clouds. Doubling CO2 results in 0.6°C global warming. The basis for the Paris Agreement (reducing CO2) is wrong. Smirnov, 2020
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A new 800-year reconstruction of W. Arctic Ocean sea ice coverage indicates sea ice has been "relatively stable" since 1800, the W. Arctic was ice free for 2-5 months per year during the 1500s-1700s vs. <1 month today, and temps were warmer in the 1930s.
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New study: "The Antarctic continent has not warmed in the last seven decades" The authors are leery to ascribe warming to CO2 because "anomalies in...downward longwave...primarily arise as a consequence of surface temperature...rather than being a cause".
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COVID-19 deaths globally rise for 2-3 weeks, peak at 4-6 weeks, then decline to near zero in 3 weeks. Visually verified here: Same trajectory for ~95% of countries REGARDLESS of mitigation strategy. China is the early model. The pandemic is nearly over.💫
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New study: Past shoreline changes to 1100 Pacific islands "dwarf" today's change magnitudes. Reef islands existing today only emerged from under the sea in the last 1400 years. Most islands have been growing, not shrinking, in the last half century.
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It's official. The Southern Hemisphere was as warm or warmer than modern times during the Medieval Warm Period according to reconstructions from South America, Antarctica, Australia/New Zealand, and the Sub-Antarctic.
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New study: Since the end of the Medieval Warm Period there have been 23 total "extremely warm years" in Southern High Asia. 7 occurred in the 1400s CE. 6 in the 1600s. 5 in the 1700s. 5 in the 2000s. The 1400s and 1700s were warmer than recent decades.
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NASA: Because we can't model clouds, climate models are 100 times less accurate than they need to be to make reliable climate change projections. IPCC: Uncertainty in clouds' climate influence is 20-40 times larger than projected warming due to CO2. This is climate science.
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Well this is odd. Thermometer data from 33 stations (12 long-term) throughout all of Ireland since the 1800s reveal: •no unusual temperature changes in the last 185 years. •no obvious warming correlating with rising CO2 emissions. Mateus et al., 2020
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Physicists conducted many experiments trying to find the IPCC's claimed CO2-heating capabilities. Instead they found 100% (1,000,000 ppm) CO2 "heats" the same as non-GHGs (N2, O2, Ar) do. 100% CO2 adds just 0.15°C more warmth to a container heated 30°C.
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Kenneth Richard
3 years
Two more studies say a planet's temps don't depend on CO2. 1. Doubling atmospheric pressure (1 to 2 bar) warms Earth 7°C; 2.4x Nitrogen (a non-GHG) causes 9.7°C warming. 2. CO2's presence isn't required to explain Venus's warmth.
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Kenneth Richard
5 months
New study: If CO2 doubles (380→760 ppm), climate forcing changes ~0-1 W/m². In Antarctica, Arctic, tropics, 2xCO2 forcing is sometimes negative. In contrast, cloud radiative forcing is 120 W/m². But they say CO2 drives climate and melts ice sheets.🤔
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Kenneth Richard
3 years
From 1950-1990 human CO2 emissions tripled (1.5 to 6 GtC/yr), yet the Arctic Ocean cooled by -1.5°C (per 27,000 Arctic-wide temp profiles). Scientists agreed this violated physics models of greenhouse warming. Now they just pretend this never happened.
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Kenneth Richard
1 year
New study: Tree taxa evidence (greater forest, vegetation cover) suggests the Euro Alps were warmer than today for nearly all of the last 10k years, including the Medieval Warm Period. The Alps were up to 4.5°C warmer 10-8.6k years ago (CO2 ~265 ppm).
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Kenneth Richard
3 years
Apparently Arctic sea ice volume was as low in the 1940s as it has been in the 2000s. And the highest sea ice volume of the last 100 years was about 1979 - the year the Arctic sea ice record begins.🤔 Van Achter et al., 2020
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Kenneth Richard
5 years
A growing proportion of Sweden's (Greta's home) energy comes from burning biomass (wood), which raises CO2 emissions 65% and 285% more than coal and natural gas, respecitively. Yet governmental policy – not science – has declared biomass burning “renewable” and “carbon neutral”.
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Kenneth Richard
5 months
New study: Arctic regions with 6+ months of sea ice today were ice-free year-round 9-5k years ago (2°C warmer) and 130-115k years ago (7-8°C warmer). Polar bears don't need sea ice to hunt prey. Extinction alarm is rooted in the false claim that they do.
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Kenneth Richard
3 years
New study: The mean rate of sea level rise and acceleration for 76 long-term tide gauges (LTT) around the world with >100 years of continuous, non-contaminated data is 0.34 and 0.007 mm/yr, respectively. No acceleration before/after 1990 is detectable.
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