George Sowers Name: George Sowers Country: USA What is your background? I was born in Atlanta in 1958. My father was a professor of Civil Engineering at Georgia Tech and was eventually inducted into the National Academy of Engineering. My university training is in physics. I have a bachelor’s degree in physics [...]
Guest post by Wim Röst Foreword Especially for Policymakers The greenhouse effect appears to be much higher than previously assumed. However, that also means that the greenhouse effect does not determine the temperature. Earth's temperatures are way lower. The level of Earth's temperatures appears to be completely dependent on cooling by the [...]
by Judith Curry - Reposted from Climate Etc. In which wicked scientists are the good guys. Activism by climate scientists has been the topic of numerous prior blog posts at Climate Etc. Such activism is generally focused on eliminating fossil fuels. This post presents a new framing for the activism issue. While [...]
Rick Willoughby Name: Rick Willoughby Country: Australia What is your background? I graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Queensland and was employed by Conzinc Riotinto Australia (CRA); initially in the underground mine at Broken Hill. I subsequently transferred to Dampier iron ore operations where I worked on [...]
by Javier Vinós & Andy May “No philosopher has been able with his own strength to lift this veil stretched by nature over all the first principles of things. Men argue, nature acts.” Voltaire (1764) 6.1 Introduction Climate is a thermodynamic process determined by the energy flux from its entry point, mostly [...]
© Clintel Foundation / Wednesday August 31, 2022 Number of signatories of World Climate Declaration growing fast The number of signatories of the World Climate Declaration (WCD), stating that "there is no climate emergency", is growing fast and now stands at 1200 (and counting). There are too many new signees [...]
James Poirier Name: James Poirier Country: United States What is your background? I am a retired meteorologist for the U.S. DOC/NOAA/National Weather Service, working from 1979 to 2012. I received a B.S. degree from Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick in 1978, and I pursued graduate studies in Atmospheric Science at SUNY Albany, in [...]
BY Chris Morrison Reposted from What's up with that Inevitable really, but the Daily Sceptic‘s recent article on the World Climate Declaration (WCD) has attracted a green-activist ‘fact check’, and on that flimsy basis has been labelled “false information” by Facebook. On August 18th we published an article reporting that scientists across the world had declared there [...]
By Dr. Lars Schernikau, energy economist, entrepreneur, commodity trader - Reposted from Watts Up With That Introduction Water is the third most important molecule in our atmosphere making up about 1% of its composition (Figure 1). Nitrogen (77%) and Oxygen (21%) are the most important components. Water vapor is also the [...]
By Jim Steele reposted from What's up with that “As scientists who study what controls snowfall admit, “There are “no easy answers” to the question of climate change and snow” Nonetheless click bait media doesnt hesitate to fear monger that we are on the verge of the “end of snow” [...]
