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The Scientific Case for Vacating the EPA’s Carbon Dioxide Endangerment Finding

The Scientific Case for Vacating the EPA’s Carbon Dioxide Endangerment Finding

Patrick J. Michaels • April 21, 2020 View Full Document as PDF Executive Summary The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2009 “Endangerment Finding” from carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases grants the agency a legal mandate that can have profound and far-reaching effects. The Finding is based largely on a Technical Support Document that relies heavily upon other mandated reports, the so-called National Assessments of global climate change impacts on the United States. The extant Assessments at the time of the Endangerment Finding suffered from serious flaws. We document that using the climate models for the first Assessment, from …

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Doubling Down on Failure

Doubling Down on Failure

How a 50 Percent by 2030 Renewable Energy StandardWould Cost Minnesota $80.2 Billion ISAAC M. ORR, MITCH ROLLING, AND JOHN PHELAN Minnesota currently has a law mandating that 25 percent of the state’s electricity come from renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, by 2025. Some lawmakers have proposed doubling the renewable energy mandate (REM), requiring that 50 percent of our electricity be generated by renewable sources by the year 2030, and Governor Walz has proposed a 100 percent carbon-dioxide-free electric grid by 2050. This report chose to calculate the impact of a 50 percent REM, rather than a 100 …

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The Scientific Case for Vacating the EPA’s Carbon Dioxide Endangerment Finding

The Scientific Case for Vacating the EPA’s Carbon Dioxide Endangerment Finding

The Hazard of Unreliable Models Guiding Policy By Patrick J. Michaels and Kevin D. Dayaratna April, 2020 Executive Summary The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2009 “Endangerment Finding” from carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases grants the agency a legal mandate that can have profound and far-reaching effects. The Finding is based largely on a Technical Support Document that relies heavily upon other mandated reports, the so-called National Assessments of global climate change impacts on the United States. The extant Assessments at the time of the Endangerment Finding suffered from serious flaws. We document that using the climate models …

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The Climate Noose

The Climate Noose

Business, Net Zero and the IPCC’s Anticapitalism Rupert Darwall The Global Warming Policy Foundation Report 40 Two-minute read •Why 1.5°C? The stated aim of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is to avoid dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system. This was defined by Euro-pean governments as limiting the rise of global temperature to no more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels, a definition subsequently written into the UN climate texts. In the run-up to the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference, small island states claimed the 2°C limit risked their homes sinking under the waves. As a result of their …

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Anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere per the IPCC conflicts with the observed permille values

By A. Ollila 09 March 2020 Media releases frequently news that carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration has reached a new all-time high concentration value measured in ppm. What is the nature of this CO2 increase in the atmosphere? In AR5 (p. 467), the IPCC writes: “About half of the emissions remained in the atmosphere 240 PgC±10 PgC since 1750.” The IPCC refers to Joos et al. (2001), which states that “Currently, only about half of the anthropogenic CO2 emission stays airborne.” In a newer paper of Joos et al. (2013), there is a reference to the Impulse Response Function (IRF): “The …

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The warming effects of CO2 by the IPCC cannot be fitted into the GH effect

By Antero Ollila March 9, 2020 I have shown that the greenhouse (GH) effect definition of the IPCC and also used by climate researchers violates the physical laws. The GH effect depends on the downward radiation from the atmosphere encompassing three energy sources. Latent heating from the physical state change from gas to liquid and partly even to solid-state, sensible heating by convection, and LW absorption by changing infrared radiation into heat. All these energy fluxes originate from the Earth’s surface, they warm up the atmospheric material which then radiates LW radiation according to its temperature back to the surface …

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Reproduction of the IPCC’s climate sensitivity gives 0.6 °C – not 1.8 °C

By Antero Ollila March 9, 2020 The highest ranked scientific journal Nature published on the 28th of July 2016 an article based on the survey for 1,576 researchers. More than 70 % of the researchers were not able to reproduce the results of another scientist’s experiments. Are there any attempts to reproduce IPCC’s climate sensitivity? I think that the most important key figure of the climate change science is the value of the climate sensitivity (CS), because it describes the warming effects of the major greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2). CS means the temperature increase corresponding to the doubling of …

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NASA Confirms Falling Sea Levels For Two Years Amidst Media Blackout

NASA Confirms Falling Sea Levels For Two Years Amidst Media Blackout

The Holgate result was confirmed by another 2008 paper authored by Jevrejeva et al, which found the fastest sea level rise during the past 300 years was observed between 1920 – 1950 with maximum of 2.5 mm/yr. In other words: global sea level rise has decelerated since the 1950s. http://notrickszone.com/2018/02/… It is becoming more and more apparent that sea levels rise and fall without any obvious connection to CO2 concentrations. Download PDF This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it..

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Challenging the Greenhouse Effect Specification and the Climate Sensitivity of the IPCC

By Antero Ollila Original Research Article Published 24 May 2019 Physical Science International Journal 22(2): 1-19, 2019; Article no.PSIJ.49095 ISSN: 2348-0130 ABSTRACT The greenhouse effect concept has been developed to explain the Earth’s elevated temperature. The prevailing theory of climate change is the anthropogenic global warming theory, which assumes that the greenhouse (GH) effect is due to the longwave (LW) absorption of 155.6 Wm -2 by GH gases and clouds. The actual warming increase to 33°C of the Earth’s surface temperature according to the present GH effect definition is the infrared downward LW radiation of 345.6 Wm -2 emitted by …

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PHYSICS OF THE PLANETARY GREENHOUSE EFFECT

2008 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL WARMING New York, New York, March 2-4, 2008 Dr. Ferenc M. Miskolczi 3 Holston Lane, Hampton, VA 23664, USA, e-mail: fmiskolczi@cox.net Recent general view and the semi-infinite atmosphere Simple radiative transfer model of the Earth-atmosphere system Some facts – results of global scale LBL simulations Balance equations – Kirchhoff’s law – virial theorem Transfer and greenhouse functions Radiative equilibrium in bounded atmosphere – correct solution Effect of a partial cloud cover – characteristic altitude Global average profiles, greenhouse sensitivity Planetary greenhouse effect in view of the new theory Conclusions Download PDF This browser does not …

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