Further holes have been blown in the ‘settled’ scientific view that humans are responsible for all or most of the changes in the climate by burning hydrocarbons. Three scientists, including Atmospheric Professor Yi Huang of McGill University, have reduced by nearly 40% the basic amount of warming caused by a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide – a figure commonly used to promote the global warming scare. In addition they cast doubt on the ability of CO2 to heat the atmosphere beyond the levels already passed in the pre-industrial age. “Transmissivity in the CO2 band centre is unchanged by increased CO2 as the absorption is already saturated,” they note.
If correct, of course, this work destroys the ‘settled’ climate science that back the collectivist Net Zero project. The findings are likely to be ignored by the mainstream media. Indeed, on past form some activist journalists and scientists may seek to get the paper retracted. For the time being, it is published by the American Meteorological Society in its Journal of Climate.
Another sensational finding is that higher levels of CO2 seem to actually cool Antarctica. “The [doubled CO2] forcing in polar regions is strongly hemispheric asymmetric and is negative in the Antarctic,” write the scientists. None of this will be a surprise to regular readers since it would appear to be confirmed by observations that the region has shown “nearly non-existent warming” over the last 70 years. The recent “mind-blowing’” scare over low levels of winter sea ice has been debunked by evidence from early weather satellites showing similar levels in 1966.
The main paper is behind a paywall but an excellent summary of its contents is provided by the science blog No Tricks Zone. The science is complex with the ‘Abstract’ explaining that the paper evaluates the “spatiotemporal variation of the instantaneous, longwave CO2 radiative forcing at both the TOA [top of the atmosphere] and surface”. In plain terms, the work investigates the rise in temperature at three levels in the atmosphere as the Earth adjusts its thermal balance from heat trapped by so-called ‘greenhouse’ gases. Using a watts per square metre formulation (3.7 W/m2), it is commonly held by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that a doubling of CO2 will lead to a rise in temperature at the TOA of 1.2°C. The scientists have reduced this number to 2.26 W/m2, a 39% reduction down to a temperature rise of 0.72°C. At the surface, the rise is only 0.55°C. Large parts of the globe are measured at 0 W/m2 including below zero for Antarctica.
The inconvenient idea that CO2 ‘saturates’ above certain atmospheric levels, possibly at levels lower than current concentrations, has long been dismissed, but it does have the advantage of explaining the higher gas levels seen in the past. Carbon dioxide only absorbs heat in narrow bands on the infrared spectrum and it commonly overlaps with other warming gases such as ubiquitous water vapour. “The water vapour and CO2 overlapping at an absorbing band prevents absorption by additional CO2,” observe the authors. The water vapour usually damps the doubled CO2 forcing by reducing the energy additional CO2 can absorb, they add.
The W/m2 figure is a vital building block in attempts to put a figure on the final temperature rise caused by a doubling of CO2, a process known as climate sensitivity. Scientists also point to other influences, or forcings, on climate and these include feedback from many sources such as evaporation, ice albedo (reflection) and clouds. For a ‘settled’ scientific narrative, it is remarkably little understood how such feedback actually happens. In fact, it is probably beyond accurate measurement in a chaotic, non-linear atmosphere. The results of climate models over 40 years would appear to confirm that last statement.
None of this has stopped activist scientists claiming double CO2 warming between 2-6°C. It is essentially a made-up figure often called an hypothesis – science-speak for an opinion. Despite claims it cannot be ‘denied’, it is not a ‘theory’ or a ‘law’. It is an opinion that has remained unproven for over 50 years. Not a single science paper can tell us what the climate sensitivity figure is – activists are free to speculate that temperatures will rise by up to 6°C, but others suggest it is well below 1°C and indistinguishable from natural climate variation. Despite all this, a majority of science papers preach climate doomsday scenarios using RCP 8.5 ‘pathway’ modelled data that suggests the global temperature will rise by up to 4°C within less than 80 years. Other activists use computer models to claim that they can attribute single bad weather events to long-term changes in the climate.
All of this is pseudoscience since it’s non-falsifiable and hence doesn’t meet the test of a scientific hypothesis. It is however the lynchpin of the argument that there’s no point in debating climate science and all heretics should be silenced in the interest of drastic Net Zero-inspired economic and societal control.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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it seems just lately politicians are losing their minds, the state wishing to ban any comedy it does not like for example, yes Jimmy carrs joke was crass, but, the reaction has been nothing short of preposterous. along with the disastrous online harms bill which gets bigger everyday and looks to be a threat to privacy, speech and civil liberties, the intent to revise the human rights act, wanting to restrict protests among many things, its like, what’s in the water? Politicians have normally swung towards censorship but the last yr or two they lost their minds. Its like joe rogan in the US, again completely ridiculous reaction going into parody.
and then there are reports of Scotland wanting to cut 6 inches of school doors????
It’s not just lately. There’s been a long drift/march to where we are now. Covid has accelerated it and been enabled by it. It’s a symptom, not a cause.
Jocks are shorter than the UK average, to be fair. Full-size doors are a waste of wood up there.
Finally, the truth is coming out!
Masky Mark McClown: I will be an eternal god!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkSPlmaSC1A
New Zealand Covid protest convoy jams streets near parliament | AFP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YAn8DM9838
A convoy of trucks and campervans blocked streets near New Zealand’s parliament in Wellington Tuesday to protest against Covid restrictions and vaccinations, inspired by a similar demonstration in Canada. AFP News Agency
Let’s keep getting the message out
Thursday 10th February 5pm
Silent lighted walk behind one simple sign
“No More Lockdown & Covid Rules Are Barking”
Bring torches, candles and other lights
meet outside Town Hall, between Rose Inn & Costa
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Stand in the Park Sundays 10am make friends, ignore the madness & keep sane
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Henley Mills Meadows (at the bandstand) Henley-on-Thames RG9 1DS
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The comments in that Leicester mercury article are encouraging. Seems the balance in her favour.
At first I smelt a rat and thought it must be to do with her refusal to test as opposed to vax status. I was wrong. Seems it was more about having to self isolate because unvaxxed.
Long past time all these covid laws were abolished.
Hey critically ill child is in hospital, catches covid because of course and so they ban the mum because she has come into contact with said son. How can an unvaccinated person go to a hospital without coming into contact with an infected ffs?!
Aside from that is it actually law to wear masks in hospitals, even when exempt?
I was harassed by a nurse in a local hospital last year for not wearing a face nappy, despite being exempt. I filed an official complaint with the NHS, which was fobbed off. They kindly reassured me that my future NHS treatment would not be affected by my complaint (not sinister whatsoever). I replied to their email by sending a picture of the Pig Dictator not wearing a mask at Hexham Hospital.
There may have been a requirement then, I expect the “law” is different now?
Telling someone you can visit your covid positive infant in the ICU but that will render you a ‘contact of someone with covid’ and as such you will then have to stay in your home for whatever days is evil in the extreme.
Hopefully…
Soon it will be like the end of Lord of the Rings: when Our Heroes come back to the Shire and find Lobelia in prison as an unlikely hero for liberty. They raise the Shire, the hobbits have a mini-revolution, rescue Lobelia, and get Saruman out, and then sink back into their old normal, with very little notion that anything happened in the wider world that was bigger than they were.
They put CO2 monitors into the small studio rooms at school a couple of weeks ago. I asked why, and was told it was so we knew when to ‘waft the doors’ around to let some air in because ‘the plague is still around’. When I asked what number was safe, I was told they didn’t know, but the little machines would beep if it was a problem.
I put my CO2 monitor in the corner out of the way. By the end of the day it registered 3600 PPM. And I STILL don’t know (or especially care) if that was bad. The odd thing really was how no one seemed to feel it was important to know WHAT THE ACTUAL F it was for.
I live in hope that one day, when its all over, I will be like Frodo, sitting quietly with a drink and some food and no longer needing to let this stuff get to me. Where’s Lobelia Sackville-Baggins when you need her?
It’s fearless hobbits with bright swords that you need. With a very few exceptions, the hobbits caved in to tyranny exactly as the Brits have done, with enough willing and active collaborators to keep Saruman’s ball rolling. But once resolute action was taken, the people rose and the tyrants were pushed over with comparatively little trouble. Their power was entirely based on bullying and intimidation. When their bluff was called, that was the end of them.
Britain needs a thorough scouring, but where our bright swords are coming from is not yet clear.
Right Annie. My world is almost entirely peopled by silly little hobbitses. And one or two worm tongues.
At least you’re not troubled with Tightass Groan, which Peaked some time ago.
Annie! Do you think this might be ‘bright swords’? https://policeonguard.ca/news-release-urgent-message-to-canadians/
How does that work? Starmer called for harder, faster, lockdowns, and is more green globalist net zero fanboi than the greenest Tory.
Just like every high profile “charity” then, it’s usually jobs for the boys/wives of the establishment connected parasite class
Obviously STAGED.
Because it’s not about online safety, it’s about CONTROL
came here to say the same. Voting for either party is just going to give you different flavours of the same s***
Yes all horses come from the same stable and the same owners always win the races. The public has to come to terms with the fact that they repeatedly vote for genuine evil, then buck that trend. Serial Traitor Dominic Raab hawking this latest Human Rights Act abomination for example. People like him need to be flushed down the toilet where they belong. Folk always pick the lowlife parasite class with no morals. We need to start really analysing the character of those running for office. Anyone from a corporate background should be placed in negative points, as corporate culture and entities are by default evil and have an enormously negative effect on our world. Corporate is the filthy seed of evil and deceit
UK “reforming” human rights law…compulsory vaccines on the horizon?
https://off-guardian.org/2022/02/08/uk-reforming-human-rights-law-compulsory-vaccines-on-the-horizon/