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Q&A: IPCC wraps up its most in-depth assessment of climate change

carbonbrief.org March 23, 2023 The final part of the world’s most comprehensive assessment of climate change – which details the “unequivocal” role of humans, its impacts on “every region” of the world and what must be done to solve it – has now been published in full by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The synthesis report is the last in the IPCC’s sixth assessment cycle, which has involved 700 scientists in 91 countries. Overall, the full cycle of reports has taken eight years to complete. The report sets out in the clearest and most evidenced detail yet …

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TITLE: ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE AND MARINE INTERACTION

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report studies causes which explain the recorded atmospheric annual CO2 flux variation of about 5 parts per million (ppm). The amount is part of an annual CO2 flow of about 28 ppm (221Gt) through the seasonal transfer of atmospheric CO2 between the southern and northern oceans. The flow is driven by changes in sea temperature which also controls the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere as per Henry’s Law. Anthropogenic CO2 is up to 36Gt which adds 16% to the current natural flux. While this is a notable portion, there is no satellite evidence to suggest there …

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Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections

Geoffrey James Sasajima Supran Insider knowledge For decades, some members of the fossil fuel industry tried to convince the public that a causative link between fossil fuel use and climate warming could not be made because the models used to project warming were too uncertain. Supran et al. show that one of those fossil fuel companies, ExxonMobil, had their own internal models that projected warming trajectories consistent with those forecast by the independent academic and government models. What they understood about climate models thus contradicted what they led the public to believe. —HJS Abstract Climate projections by the fossil fuel …

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CCP Proves ‘Climate’ Fight Not Really About Climate

CCP Proves ‘Climate’ Fight Not Really About Climate

The Epoch Times By Alex Newman | January 10, 2023 Commentary You don’t have to be a climate scientist to know the ringleaders of the “climate change” bandwagon don’t truly believe the narrative they’re selling. And it’s not just because they jet around the world in private jets to lecture you about your car and your hamburgers. In fact, if the people at the top bought into the notion that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are really “pollution” producing a “climate crisis,” they would be doing exactly the opposite of what they’re actually doing. Examining climate policy and communist …

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Municipalities of Puerto Rico v. Exxon Mobil, et al. Part 2: RICO-teering

Municipalities of Puerto Rico v. Exxon Mobil, et al. Part 2: RICO-teering

Russell Cook | Jan. 4, 2023 Bad enough that this lawsuit filing from the Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman LLC law firm has a no-win appearance of being either a mismanaged effort guided by the Sher Edling law firm without any disclosure of that partnership, or it appears to be a spectacularly inept and possibly unethical plagiarizing of the accusation content and other bits from the 16 boilerplate copy Sher Edling lawsuits. I detailed all of that in my Part 1 blog post (handily reproduced at WUWT, enabling me to reach a wider reading audience). Exponentially worse for Milberg Coleman is the widespread news …

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The New Pause lengthens: 100 Months with No Warming At All

The New Pause lengthens: 100 Months with No Warming At All

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley | Jan. 3, 2023 The cold weather on both sides of the Atlantic last month seems to have had its effect on temperature, which fell sharply compared with November, lengthening the New Pause to 8 years 4 months, as measured by the satellites designed, built and operated by Dr Roy Spencer and Dr John Christy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville: The graph shows the least-squares linear-regression trend on the monthly global mean lower-troposphere anomalies. The least-squares method was recommended by Professor Jones of the University of East Anglia as a reasonable method of …

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The rise and fall of peer review

The rise and fall of peer review

Experimental History Adam Mastroianni | Dec 13, 2022 Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that’s a great thing For the last 60 years or so, science has been running an experiment on itself. The experimental design wasn’t great; there was no randomization and no control group. Nobody was in charge, exactly, and nobody was really taking consistent measurements. And yet it was the most massive experiment ever run, and it included every scientist on Earth. Most of those folks didn’t even realize they were in an experiment. Many of them, including me, weren’t born when the …

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The 60- & 88-year temperature oscillations are related to planetary and solar oscillations

Dr. Antero OIlila Dec. 19, 2022 The mechanism and even the existence of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) have remained under debate among climate researchers, and the same applies to general temperature oscillations of a 60-90-year period. The recently published study of Ollila and Timonen has found that these oscillations are real and they are related to 60- and 88-year periodicities originating from the planetary and solar activity oscillations. These oscillations can be observed in the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), the Pacific Multidecadal Oscillation (PMO), and actually in the global surface temperature (GST). The similarities between the GST, AMO, PMO, …

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