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Category Archives: Global Warming
Satellites and Thermometers
In a recent blog discussion with some unusually astute folks who are still concerned about human warming, the thread came to a dead-end at satellites and thermometers. It became clear that the real crux of the climate debate between well-studied … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, Global Warming, Mount Whitney
Tagged GISS data adjustments
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The Ocean Ate It
One of the arguments one hears often these days to explain the lack of lower atmospheric warming for a human generation is that the ocean is somehow absorbing the “heat” or enthalpy that Carbon dioxide is supposed to be creating … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, Geography, Global Warming, Oceanography
Tagged Ocean Heat Content, Thermosaline Subduction
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The Dud PDO Index of Climate Sensitivity
Climate sensitivity is the response of the climate system to a given increment of CO2. It is often expressed as the response to a “doubling” of this gas from a pre industrial level. Estimates of climate sensitivity are all over … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, climate sensitivity, Dud PDO, Global Warming, PDO
Tagged Pacific Ocean
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Everyone Loves Lists, Should We Worry or Not?
Take a big leap back in time. It is 1974, forty years ago. The planet has been cooling for thirty years. There is very real concern about this. The Pentagon is making Ice Age contingency plans. The scientific community is agnostic. … Continue reading
The Pause That Refreshes
We hear more and more about the Pause. This pause refers to a hiatus in lower atmospheric warming for a human generation since 1997. This “pause” by its very name implies that warming will resume sometime soon. Only zealots will claim … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Global Warming, Paleoclimate, the "Pause"
Tagged Climatic Optima, Pause
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Cold is the New Hot
Once it was that everything was getting hotter and hotter and pretty soon we would be frying eggs by just putting the pan outside. This was to have been because a certain trace gas was invested with magical powers far … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Climate, Climate Change, Cold is the New Hot, Global Warming, Religion, Shamanism
Tagged Cold=Hot, Dinglenuts
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Carbon Dioxide, the Wimp
It is pretty well-known that CO2 represents only one part in 2500 in the atmosphere. Water vapor represents one part in 40. Not only is CO2 a wimpy constituent of the atmosphere, it is also a wimpy constituent of the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Global Warming, Optical Material Properties
Tagged CO2, Greenhouse gas, the Wimp
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Paving It Won’t Save It (The Planet, That is)
The oceans are the energy bank for the planet. They receive energy to great depth from the sun. Continents cool the planet. Daedalus suggested in jest that if we increased the area of the continents 5%, we could reverse the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Geography, Geology, Global Warming, Plate Tectonics, Serpentine
Tagged Eocene, Prescribed Pavement, Proterozoic
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Dude, It’s Not About Carbon Dioxide
We know a lot about Carbon dioxide in a jar. We know the wavelengths it prefers to absorb and emit photons. We know it tends to mix efficiently with other gasses. We know it has a nearly magical affinity for … Continue reading
I Deny
“Denier!”, in the tone of apostasy. Well, call me the apostate, because I deny. I deny that there is any reasonable scientific evidence that Carbon dioxide will cause catastrophic global warming. I deny this as a naturalist and serious student … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Carbon Cycle, Carbon Dioxide Loves to Swim, Carbon Prohibitionists, Carbon Theology, Climate, Climate Change, Global Warming, Global Warming Denial, Religion
Tagged Carbon, Carbon cycle, Carbon dioxide, Carbon Management, Carbon Prohibitionism, Carbon Prohibitionists, environment, Global Warming Denial
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