The Green New Deal Is Totally Insane!
One of the greatest priorities for American progressives is the so-called “Green New Deal.” In case you are one of the very few who has not heard of it, the … Read More
Tag: Global Warming
Concerns Anthropogenic Global Warning (AGW).
More Evidence of an Exceptionally Deep Solar Minimum
Here is more evidence of an exceptionally deep solar minimum which will arrive around 2020. For the last three days, the irreplaceable and invaluable Spaceweather.com has been alerting us to … Read More
More Measurements To Deflate AGW Enthusiasts
Total solar irradiance from 1978 to the present. Space weather.com / Solar Dynamics Observatory While obtaining the daily solar activity statistics for my Solar Activity page this morning, I came … Read More
Even More Lies Progressives Tell To Themselves!
A progressive regarding the world. Be careful what you buy from him! (c) Can Stock Photo / ezumeimages In my last essay I was only able to cover two of … Read More
New Data Points To Continuing Warming Pause
Cosmic ray intensities from March 2015 to May 2017. Image and Data from Spaceweather.com Today marks the sixth straight day for which there were absolutely no sunspots on the Sun. … Read More
CO2 Levels In Air Dangerously Low for Life on Earth
Atmospheric CO2 concentrations and average global temperatures for the past 550 million years on Earth. Carbon dioxide levels from Brener (2001) and temperature from Scotese (2001) sourced from www.geocraft.com. See … Read More
Thermodynamic Effects of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Revisited
Varieties of interactions between air and sea Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory Apparently, I did not not explain my thoughts clearly enough in my post Thermodynamic Interactions of the Oceans … Read More
Thermodynamic Interactions of the Oceans With the Atmosphere
Cumulus clouds over the Atlantic Ocean Wikimedia Commons / Tiago Fioreze One fruitful way of looking at the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) controversy is through the lens of thermodynamics, a … Read More
What Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming?
Dr. Nir Shaviv, Chair of the Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, giving a talk on global warming at the George Marshall Institute on March 21, … Read More
Anti-AGW Global Warming Scholarly References
Different terrestrial environments involved with or affected by global warming. Over on my Facebook group A Divided World Readers, one reader complained I did not give a single scholarly reference to … Read More
The Complexity of Atmospheric Physics
View of the crescent moon through the top of the earth’s atmosphere, as seen from the International Space Station. The photo was taken over the South China Sea, just south … Read More
The Growing American Ideological Conflict
Middlebury College demonstration against Charles Murray, illustrating the strained relations between the American Left and the American Right Screenshot of Fox News Channel report In my last post, Concerning Ethics, Economics, … Read More
Global Warming Teaches Humility
The Hadcrut4 global land and ocean temperature anomaly for 1997 to the present. The Hadcrut4 data set is maintained by the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia. … Read More
Solar Wind, Cosmic Rays and Clouds: The Determinants of Global Warming
Average cloud cover is the most important factor in global warming While global warming alarmists are trying to create a hysteria about Man causing the heat death of the planet, … Read More
Something Is Happening in the Sun!
Structure of the Sun Wikimedia Commons/Kelvinsong Something important is most definitely going on inside the sun! We have just finished eleven straight days with no sunspots on the sun’s surface. … Read More
The Anti-Freedom Bias of Progressives
Galileo’s trial for scientific heresy by the Roman Catholic Church Wikimedia Commons/Painting by Cristiano Banti (1857) (US-PD-Art) I am not the only one to notice the increasingly authoritarian tendencies of … Read More
Democrats Want to Imprison Scientific Skeptics?
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Junior Senator from Rhode Island Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Kenneth C. Zirkel Last October, while writing about progressives’ views concerning conservatives, I noted how Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse … Read More
Cosmic Rays Continue Increasing: Global Cooling Ahead!
Clouds: What cosmic rays help create Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Fir0002 The latest measurements of cosmic ray intensity in the stratosphere from Spaceweather.com and the students of … Read More
Global Cooling May Intensify – Cosmic Rays Increasing
Cosmic ray intensity between March 2015 and January 2016. Image Credit: Spaceweather.com As shown in the plot above, cosmic ray intensity has intensified between March 2015 and January 2016. In … Read More
Objections to Anti-AGW Argument Answered
Comparison of smoothed globally averaged temperature data sets with common zero Image Credit: tamino.wordpress.com Very recently, a friend and an opponent on a number of issues asked me to … Read More
The Interaction of Ideologies: A Bemused Response to “Cheese”
Is this how we should view expert scientists? Image Credit: morgueFile.com/Grafixar This post is a reply to the comments of my friend, whom I will call “Cheese” because of … Read More
Progressives’ Views of Conservatives (1)
I have frequently referred to the autocratic instincts of the American “progressive”. It is such a fascinating characteristic of progressives given their self-picture of themselves as the epitome of tolerance, … Read More
Global Warming: A Summation
I believe it would be a good thing if I were to go through the major points of my Global Warming posts to show how it all fits together. Otherwise, it … Read More
Solar Power Output and Global Warming
Without the Sun we die! Yet how many of us give frequent thought to whether we can can continue to absorb its gift of energy? Or whether that gift will … Read More
Clouds and Global Warming
How do clouds affect global warming? This is an important, urgent and fascinating question! Clouds are involved in a number of physical and chemical processes and are surprisingly complex. Their … Read More
What Has Caused Global Warming Periods?
If carbon dioxide has not caused periods of global warming, what has? In our last post of this series on global warming, Global Warming Data, we concluded just on the … Read More
Global Warming Data
The simple physical theory in my previous post on global warming, coupled with measured data, is not quite sufficient to prove that global warming caused by man is not real. … Read More
An Infrared Photon’s Life in The Atmosphere
Did you know that the fraction of the atmosphere that is CO2 is 0.0004 by volume? By the atmosphere I really mean the troposphere, which is the layer of atmosphere … Read More
Basic Physical Processes of Greenhouse Gas Warming
Before we get to the question of how important greenhouse gas warming by CO2 is, we should all have a grasp of the basic physical processes involved. That will help … Read More