Since 2000 The Arctic’s Hudson Bay Has Cooled -0.35°C With 10 Of 15 Sites Gaining Sea Ice

Since 2000 The Arctic’s Hudson Bay Has Cooled -0.35°C With 10 Of 15 Sites Gaining Sea Ice

No Tricks Zone By Kenneth Richard on 7. July 2022 A new study (Gupta et al., 2022) indicates that from 2000-2019 73% of the 15 sites considered have been cooling and 67% have experienced a lengthening of sea ice duration. Canada’s Hudson Bay extends into the Arctic Ocean and its coasts are teeming with polar bears. Scientists report 11 of 15 Hudson Bay sites have been cooling since 2000. The average cooling for these 11 sites is -0.34°C per decade. Image Source: Gupta et al., 2022 Cooling °C per decade, 2000-2019 Chesterfield Inlet: -0.25°C Cape Tatnum: -0.3°C Fort Severn: -0.5°C …

EU parliament backs labelling gas and nuclear investments as green

European Commission declares nuclear and gas to be green

Reuters | July 6, 2022 Summary Lawmakers back ‘green’ EU investment label for the fuels Likely to become law unless super-majority of states veto Gas, nuclear rules have split EU countries and lawmakers Luxembourg, Austria to challenge law in court BRUSSELS, July 6 (Reuters) – The European Parliament on Wednesday backed EU rules labelling investments in gas and nuclear power plants as climate-friendly, throwing out an attempt to block the law that has exposed deep rifts between countries over how to fight climate change. The vote paves the way for the European Union proposal to pass into law, unless 20 …

Scaling the size of the CO2 error in Friedlingstein et al

Scaling the size of the CO2 error in Friedlingstein et al

By Bud Bromley | July 2, 2022 The error in Friedlingstein et al is much larger than expected. Friedlingstein et al Page 4. “when the cement carbonation sink is included), ELUC was 0.9 ± 0.7 GtC yr-1 , for a total anthropogenic CO2 emission of 10.2 ± 0.8 GtC yr-1 15 (37.4 ± 2.9 GtCO2).” The amounts above are their calculation, not mine. Friedlingstein et al reported their estimate for 1 year’s (2020) increase for human fossil fuel emissions, land use and cement = 37.4 +- 2.9 Gt CO2. This is their estimate of emissions not net emissions. Net CO2 …

The New Pause Lengthens to 7 Years 10 Months

The New Pause Lengthens to 7 Years 10 Months

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley | July 2, 2022 The New Pause paused last month because I was ill. Many apologies for the interruption. Now, however, it resumes – and it has lengthened from 7 years 7 months to the end of April 2022. To the end of June 2022, the New Pause is now 7 years 10 months in length: This Pause, like its predecessor, which was an impressive 18 years 8 months (UAH), or 18 years 9 months (HadCRUT4), is, as always, not cherry-picked. It is derived from the UAH monthly global mean lower-troposphere temperature anomalies as the …

CLIMATE SCIENTIST EXPLAINS THE AIRBORNE FRACTION

CLIMATE SCIENTIST EXPLAINS THE AIRBORNE FRACTION

tambonthongchai.com | Dec. 29, 2020 THIS POST IS A CRITICAL REVIEW OF A LECTURE ON CARBON BUDGETS FOR THE CLIMATE ACTION OF REDUCING AND ELIMINATING FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS SO THAT HUMANS CAN CONTROL THE CLIMATE AND SAVE THE PLANET. LINK TO SOURCE: https://futureoflife.org/2019/10/29/not-cool-ep-18-glen-peters-on-the-carbon-budget-and-global-carbon-emissions/ PART-1: WHAT CLIMATE SCIENTIST DR. GLEN PETERS SAYS GLEN PETERS, CLIMATE SCIENTIST, AND CARBON BUDGET EXPERT. Topic: We’ll learn what the carbon budget is and why it’s hard to calculate, why some causes of carbon emissions are harder to address than others, how the phrase “carbon footprint” is so often misused and why it’s also hard to …

Supreme Court reins in EPA on Clean Power Plan!

Supreme Court reins in EPA on Clean Power Plan!

CFact June 30, 2022 A victory for those who care about sound science, reliable energy and limited government. Click here to read the full decision: Supreme Court — West Virginia vs EPA Chief Justice Roberts authored the opinion of the Court, joined by Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett.  Justice Elena Kagan authored a dissent, joined by Justices Breyer and Sotomayor. Excerpts: “Congress did not grant EPA in Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act the authority to devise emissions caps based on the generation shifting approach the Agency took in the Clean Power Plan.” “The only question before …

About those chalk white cliffs

About those chalk white cliffs

The English Channel and the coast of Sussex England Bud Bromley | June 25, 2022 We should not rely on estimates of human CO2 from fossil fuels to calculate atmospheric CO2.  These data can only be used for the very broadest estimate of trend direction.  This is not meant as a critique of the long and diligent curation of these fossil fuel numbers by the U.S. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, nor critique of the works of Friedlingstein et al.  These curators must work with the data they are given.  Over the years many of the countries submitting fossil fuel data …

Demolishing the Infinite CO2 Argument

Demolishing the Infinite CO2 Argument

FrontPage Mag by Daniel Greenfield | June 24, 2022 A crisis requires a perpetual atmosphere of fear and the insistence that things are getting worse and worse all the time. “We have already poisoned the atmosphere, we have to repair and heal the Earth and the only way to do that is to remove carbon dioxide permanently,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm bizarrely claimed as part of Biden’s ‘Earthshot” to destroy America’s economy and turn the rest of it over to Communist China. Bud Bromley makes an important point in his analysis of CO2 levels. As Ron Clutz summarizes, “Those committed to …

Henry’s Law constant for CO2 in aqueous sodium chloride solutions at 1 atm and sub-zero (Celsius) temperatures

Science Direct Elsevier, Volume 207, 20 November 2018, Pages 26-32 Download PDF Neal Bailey, Tim N. Papakyriakou, Carl Bartels, Feiyue Wang https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2018.10.003 Highlights • Henry’s Law constant for CO2 was determined in NaCl solutions at temperatures from −1 to −10 °C. • CO2 solubility in cold seawater and sea ice-brines is higher than previously estimated. • Air-sea exchange of CO2 and climate modeling need to revisit the solubility of CO2 at sub-zero temperatures. Abstract The solubility of CO2 in seawater is known to increase at colder temperatures, but few studies have examined the CO2 solubility in seawater and in sea-ice brines …

CO2 Coalition Tells Court Carbon Regulation “Scientifically Invalid”

CO2 Coalition Tells Court Carbon Regulation “Scientifically Invalid”

From Greg Wrightstone and the CO2 Coalition. RELEASE: Immediate                                                                                         June 22, 2022 ARLINGTON, Va. — President Biden’s Social Cost of Carbon rule is “scientifically invalid and will be disastrous for the poor people worldwide, future generations and the United States,” according to a court brief by two physics professors at Princeton and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the CO2 Coalition. Filed today with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the amicus curie brief said, “There is overwhelming scientific evidence that fossil fuels and CO2 provide enormous social benefits.” It asked that the rule be …