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Paper Showing Earth’s Atmosphere Has Become ‘Saturated’ With Carbon Dioxide and More Carbon Emissions Won’t Make Any Difference Is Retracted Following Positive Coverage in the Daily Sceptic

by Chris Morrison
13 January 2025 9:00 AM

Another important paper taking issue with the ‘settled’ climate narrative has been cancelled following a report in the Daily Sceptic and subsequent reposts that went viral across social media. The paper discussed the atmospheric ‘saturation’ of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and argued that higher levels will not cause temperatures to rise. The work was led by the widely-published Polish scientist Dr. Jan Kubicki and appeared on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect website in December 2023. The paper has been widely discussed on social media since April 2024 when the Daily Sceptic reported on the findings. Interest is growing in the saturation hypothesis not least because it provides a coherent explanation for why life and the biosphere grew and often thrived for 600 million years despite much higher atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases. Alas for control freaks, it also destroys the science backing for the Net Zero fantasy. 

Many scientists contend that above certain levels the ability of CO2 to warm within narrow bands of the infrared spectrum falls off a logarithmic cliff. Recently, eight Taiwanese scientists led by Professor Peng-Sheng Wei found that the sensitivity of the climate to a rise in CO2 atmospheric levels from 100 to 400 parts per million (ppm) was “negligibly small” at 0.3°C. Current levels of CO2 are around 420 ppm. Seven Austrian scientists recently concluded that a future doubling of CO2 showed “no increase in the IR [infrared] absorption for the 15 u-central peak”. At most, it was stated, this could lead to warming of 0.5°C. Yet in spite of this, Elsevier decided to retract Kubicki’s paper with only a few words of explanation, a decision that is likely to send shock waves through any group of scientists seeking to examine the role of saturation of gases in the atmosphere.

The retraction reads: “Subsequent to acceptance of this paper, the rigour and quality of the peer-review process for this paper was investigated and confirmed to fall beneath the high standards expected by Applications in Engineering Science. After review by additional expert referees, the Editor-in-Chief has lost confidence in the validity of the paper and has decided to retract.”

Retraction in a scientific journal is a serious matter, relatively rare and potentially damaging to the reputation of authors. According to Elsevier’s withdrawal policies, articles may be retracted “to correct errors that impact the findings reported by an article where they are too extensive in the view of the editors to publish a correction, or due to infringements of Elsevier’s journal policies, such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like”. None of these reasons for withdrawing the Kubicki paper have been given. Instead there is the pompous reference to a ”fall beneath the high standards expected”, supposedly confirmed by additional unnamed “experts”. Further details about the retraction may emerge given the important issues raised by Elsevier’s action.

Whatever the real reasons behind this retraction, it will not be the first science paper that has met this fate following publicity in the Daily Sceptic and subsequent widespread interest on social media. 

In January 2022, a group of physics scientists led by Profession Gianluca Alimonti of Milan University published a paper in a Springer Nature journal that considered past weather trends. They concluded that the idea we’re in the throes of a ‘climate emergency’ was not supported by the facts. The paper attracted little attention outside academic circles until September 14th when the Daily Sceptic reported on it – and our promotion of the story on X resulted in 9,000 retweets. The story was covered by the Australian and Sky News Australia, after which attacks were launched by activist scientists and journalists such as Michael ‘Hockey Stick’ Mann and Graham Readfearn of the Guardian. After a year of lobbying, Springer Nature retracted the paper claiming it no longer had confidence in the results and conclusions. This surprised many, not least because much of the data came from the International Panel on Climate Change. Science writer Dr. Roger Pielke published a number of leaked emails surrounding the affair and concluded: “Shenanigans continue in climate science, with influential scientists teaming up with journalists to corrupt peer review.”

In September 2023, a departing academic, Dr. Patrick Brown, came clean about a paper he’d written in Nature saying that climate change was increasing the risk of wildfires in California. “I knew not to try to quantify key aspects other than climate change in my research because it would dilute the story that prestigious journals like Nature and its rival Science, want to tell,” he explained. These key aspects, of course, include considering the role of arsonists and forest management. For its part, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can find little or no evidence of human-caused climate change affecting ‘fire weather’ to date and going forward to 2100. In Brown’s view, climate science has become less about understanding the complexities of the world “and more about serving as a kind of Cassandra, urgently warning the public about the dangers of climate change”.

The Editor-in-Chief of Nature Magdalena Skipper reacted furiously to Brown’s comments, accusing him of “poor research practices” that are “highly irresponsible”, according to the Daily Mail. Despite all the controversy, Brown’s paper has not been retracted.

Dr. Matthew Wielicki had a senior position in the Geological Sciences department of the University of Alabama. His parents were academics and he grew up on a Californian university campus surrounded by freely-exchanged competing ideas. He only ever wanted to be an academic but he gave it up during Covid, seemingly disgusted at the turn against free speech in American universities and the effect it has had on climate science. If you speak out against the accepted narrative “you are a pariah in this community”, he said. Climate change is a “taboo” subject in academia and there is a “disconnect between what the science says and what the narrative in mainstream media is”. It isn’t about finding the truth in open discussion – It’s about silencing those who disagree with you, he observed.

Chris Morrison is the Environment Editor of the Daily Sceptic.

Tags: CensorshipClimate AlarmismClimate changeClimate JournalismNet Zero

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago

But infections peaked at 55,000 in July and have since fallen to around 35,000 per day.

That should be positive “cases” not infections. You need symptoms for an infection.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

That should be claimed positive test results, not cases. You need tests that are better than a coin flip to be able to claim a case.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  TheyLiveAndWeLockdown

Sadly, too many ATL articles reinforce the propagandised vocabulary.

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bOrgkilLaH1of7
bOrgkilLaH1of7
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Exactly… tune up the PC cycles = next wave…

Tune them down… no COVID. Convenient eh? Lockdowns on demand

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alw
alw
3 years ago

Was outsourced to India. According to a friend who got the virus despite being vaccinated she was having calls from people who could barely speak English and were quite obviously reading from a script. Turned the phone off so she wouldn’t be bothered.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  alw

That’s hardly conclusive, given how strengthened the UK has been by diversity.

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Paul B
Paul B
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

They might have been Scottish…

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BungleIsABogan
BungleIsABogan
3 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

Naughty….Lol!

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BungleIsABogan
BungleIsABogan
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

They are still busy importing more of these “important” people, mainly via Dover, and ably assisted now by the RNLI it seems.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago

Were they ever “needed”?

This will be such a blow for the public, third and salaried sector slackers desperately clinging to their Spy-n-Snitch app and hoping for more 10-day “free” holidays. Those Netflix queues aren’t going to binge themselves.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

They’ll rehire them all this autumn, if Israel is anything to by.

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J4mes
J4mes
3 years ago

It’s one of those very rare occasions to celebrate people losing their jobs.

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TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
3 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

It’s just a bit that the bureaucrats with sinecures who authorise their pay are not also receiving their p45s.

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

Mind you, there are quite a few who would satisfy that in Westminster!

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SilentP
SilentP
3 years ago

Perhaps those laid off can now do something useful e.g. work in a care home, drive delivery lorries and/or use the delivery lorries in any blockades

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steve_z
steve_z
3 years ago

interesting story

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58336998

woman cons billions out of investors for a disease diagnosis technique that was utterly fake

funny none of them asked for an independent audit of the technique. only got themselves to blame

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Hopeless
Hopeless
3 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

If she beats the rap, perhaps there’s a place for her at Pfizer.

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SweetBabyCheeses
SweetBabyCheeses
3 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

she was a psychopathic con artist who went to huge lengths to perpetuate her fraud. The podcast The Dropout has a lot more info than the BBC article and is a good listen.

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Trabant
Trabant
3 years ago
Reply to  steve_z

There’s a great book about this whole scandal
Bad Blood

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BJs Brain is Missing
BJs Brain is Missing
3 years ago

Non-jobs in the first place! Now get on and do something useful in your life and leave people alone and stop bothering them.

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Jabba the Hut
Jabba the Hut
3 years ago

A few more million pissed up the wall because of Ferguson’s predictions. I wonder if he has any liability insurance? On no sorry the man’s a Saint for saving so many lives.

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Will
Will
3 years ago
Reply to  Jabba the Hut

“Wrong in the right way”. The man should be heading to prison.

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mka1221
mka1221
3 years ago

My friend reckons he received fifteen phone calls, some lasting as long as forty five minutes from T&T because he was ‘honest’ about his movements (on holiday) in the days before feeling a ‘little groggy’ (his words, symptoms lasted for one day).

This is what complicity does. Trapped and harassed by your own stupidity – and I said that to him.

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SweetBabyCheeses
SweetBabyCheeses
3 years ago
Reply to  mka1221

Surely people only make this mistake once before they block the number too?

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mka1221
mka1221
3 years ago
Reply to  SweetBabyCheeses

You’d forgive a few people for doing this yeh. Hopefully once bitten and all that.

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beancounter
beancounter
3 years ago

This is not “news” to most people. The fact that it is only now being reported by a newspaper is yet another shocking element of the collusion between the government and the media. One of my friends worked in the Test & Trace office in Exeter before he gave up after 3 months having been so bored by making about 5 calls per day. When the NHS came to “audit” the staffing and activity the staff were all told to attend the office and pretend to be making calls to “ill” people. I wonder how the annual accounts of companies such as Serco and Sitel will look at the end of the financial years covering 2020 and 2021?

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Waffle
Waffle
3 years ago
Reply to  beancounter

DHSC (T&T) are spending millions on temporary recruitment. Some of it is going through Public Buying Organisations (PBO) solutions so not all of it is made public through contracts finder. Public sector is required to publish notices on any contract over £25k on contracts finder. A lot don’t realise that this also applies to contracts awarded under PBO solutions so it’s often not made public.

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Waffle
Waffle
3 years ago
Reply to  Waffle

Slightly out-dated, but a lot of these PBOs still exist – https://bid-better.co.uk/2018/10/16/what-are-collaborative-procurement-organisations/

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
3 years ago

“Dear,dear,what a pity,what a shame, never mind”.
With apologies to the late lamented “It ain’t half hot,mom”.

Last edited 3 years ago by Fingerache Philip
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KidFury
KidFury
3 years ago

Weird, as I didn’t receive a single call in my 10 day quarantine post holiday.

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Judy Watson
Judy Watson
3 years ago
Reply to  KidFury

I did and it was on my Thai phone number.

gave her short shrift and removed the sim from my phone.

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Pavlov Bellwether
Pavlov Bellwether
3 years ago

‘Vaccine’, ‘Vaccinated’, ‘Vaccination’ NO. NO. NO. – anyone who tries to jab me, my family and my loved ones with that *monkey gunk* will learn the ultimate lesson. This is the hill I die on: FIGHT. BACK. BETTER. – Updated information, resources and useful links:  https://www.LCAHub.org/

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Hester
Hester
3 years ago

And how much does this all cost us?

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BungleIsABogan
BungleIsABogan
3 years ago

Test and Trace Call Centre Staff Are Being Laid off Because There Aren’t Enough ‘Cases’ to Keep Them Busy

Excellent.
Good riddance.

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Smelly Melly
Smelly Melly
3 years ago

You must have a very low IQ if you still have the trick and trap app on your phone. (I never had it and I blocked the phone numbers they used as a double insurance).

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