Drought in the Southwestern U.S.
The featured image is a photograph of the Big Bend area in Texas in October 2015 when the drought index was moderately moist. The photo was taken by the author. Stories of some sort of current catastrophic drought in the western U.S. are greatly exaggerated (apologies to Mark Twain). While the western U.S. [...]
A quick overview of my recent works on climate
[There is also a Greek version of the post—Υπάρχει και ελληνική έκδοση της ανάρτησης] I am starting my brief post of today with some facts: The atmospheric CO₂ currently represents 4% of 1% of the total number of molecules in the atmosphere. (The rest 99.96% are molecules of other substances: Nitrogen 76%, Oxygen 20%, Water [...]
The Nile’s gifts for understanding climate – Part 3
[There is also a Greek version of the post—Υπάρχει και ελληνική έκδοση της ανάρτησης] ”On the one hand, a prophet is he who foretells the future by revelation of the Spirit; on the other hand, a stochastes is he who infers the future by prudence, comparing similar states, and by the experience of forefathers” (Basilius [...]
The Paris Accords As “Climate Insurance”—Unaffordable and Unnecessary
The following is based on remarks delivered by Steven Koonin and Mark Mills at an MIT Free Speech Alliance debate, which can be viewed here. Reposted from RealClearWorld.com The climate change debate continues to rage. Though the science remains “unsettled,” what does seem settled is that President Trump will withdraw, again, from the [...]
Climate Models, Clouds, OLR, and ECS
To read this post in German see here, translation by Christian Freuer. The IPCC and the climate “consensus” believe that essentially all warming since 1750 is due to man’s emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases as shown in figure 1 here or in (IPCC, 2021, p. 961). This has led to a 45-year search for the value of [...]
Is the detection and attribution of climate change really settled science?
The CERES team (Willie Soon, Ronan and Michael Connolly) was invited by the Heritage Foundation to contribute a Special Report on what is known about the causes of global warming since the 1850s. Although they were offered payment for this report, they did it pro bono for the reasons they outline [...]