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Category Archives: Greenhouse effect
Outgoing longwave radiation
Something that often strikes me is that when I think I understand something quite well, there often turns out to be an aspect that I haven’t understood particularly well. I sometimes think that this is can be an important thing … Continue reading
Flight free talk
I gave my first ever public climate science talk at a Flight Free event in Edinburgh. If you’re interested in seeing my talk slides, you can download them here. The idea behind Flight Free is to encourage people to pledge … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon tax, Climate change, Greenhouse effect, Personal, Scientists
Tagged Anna Hughes, Edinburgh, Flight free 2020, Flight Free UK, Joanna Haig
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A little knowledge
There is apparently a paper from a couple of years ago that is currently doing the rounds and that argues that the Molar Mass Version of the Ideal Gas Law Points to a Very Low Climate Sensitivity. The suggestion is … Continue reading
Models are failed hypotheses!
John Christy has written a report for the Global Warming Policy Foundation called climate models have been predicting too much warming. The basic conclusion of the report is that climate models predict far more warming in the tropical troposphere than … Continue reading
2017: A year in review
I’ve now been writing this blog for almost 5 years and I still don’t quite know what I’m trying to achieve, if anything. Hopefully a blog that presents a reasonable representation of our current understanding of climate science, while also … Continue reading
Arguing about the greenhouse effect – again
There’s been a rather lengthy Twitter thread about the greenhouse effect. In particular, focusing on claims that there is no such thing. Of course, engaging in such discussions so as to actually change anyone’s minds is pointless. However, I think … Continue reading
Machine unlearning
Someone sent me a paper by John Abbot and Jennifer Marohasy called the application of machine learning for evaluating anthropogenic versus natural climate change. Their conclusion is that most of the observed warming could be natural and that the Equilibrium … Continue reading
No, pressure alone does not define surface temperatures!
Eli’s already covered this but I thought I would present a slightly different argument. The topic is a recent paper by Ned Nikolov and Karl Zeller called new insights on the physical nature of the atmospheric greenhouse effect deduced from … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Greenhouse effect, Research, Science
Tagged Atmospheric Greenhouse Effect, Karl Zeller, Ned Nikolov, OMICS, Pseudoscience
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Hawking is wrong
I guess the big alarmist news at the moment is that Stephen Hawking has been quoted as saying: Trump’s action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, Greenhouse effect, Science
Tagged Ken Caldeira, Robert Grumbine, Runaway, Stephen Hawking, Venus, Venus-like runaway
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What does the Vostok ice core tell us?
Euan Mearns, who runs a blog called Energy Matters, had a post in 2014 about The Vostok ice core: Temperature CO2 and CH4. This post has apparently had 8000 reads, is probably one of the most read texts on the … Continue reading
