BECAUSE the increase in the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide has correlated with an increase in the use of fossil fuels, causation has been assumed. Tom Quirk has tested this assumption including through an analysis of the time delay … [Read more...] about The Available Evidence Does Not Support Fossil Fuels as the Source of Increasing Concentrations of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (Part 1)
Climate & Climate Change
From Brussels, Without Money
The money issue, Mr den Blanken said, had overshadowed other elements of the meeting’s final communiqué that environmentalists should applaud – including a commitment to create a global carbon trading market. Read more here. … [Read more...] about From Brussels, Without Money
A General Morality Model?
'It is interesting to note that the authority of climate science has come to include moral issues so that these scientists can now assert unequivocally that "climate change is the moral issue of our time". Presumably, this too is based on modelling, … [Read more...] about A General Morality Model?
The Ocean Really is Cooling
THERE are 3,000 free-drifting buoys in the world’s ocean; first deployed in the year 2000 they allow continuous monitoring of the temperature, salinity, and velocity of the upper ocean. There has though been some difficulty in interpreting the … [Read more...] about The Ocean Really is Cooling
Belief in AGW Declining
SINCE Gallup began tracking domestic sentiment on global warming in 1997, American views that climate change was being underestimated were at their highest in 2001 and 2006 (the year An Inconvenient Truth came out). The poll also saw declines from … [Read more...] about Belief in AGW Declining
West Antarctica To Collapse Again – But Not Soon
CLIMATE change has always been driven by the sun, the earth’s orbit and plate tectonics, at least that is what many so-called sceptic would argue. In a new paper in this week’s journal Nature Tim Naish and colleagues conclude that there is a … [Read more...] about West Antarctica To Collapse Again – But Not Soon
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
