Monthly Archives: February 2015

Results of online survey of participants of the climate debate conducted early 2014

Posted on 15 February 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

Before Xmas I started publishing the survey results from last year, but unfortunately Xmas got in the way. So, I was intending publishing the whole report as a booklet but then I worked out a way to put it on … Continue reading →

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Toward a new theory of ice-ages XIII (How cycles are triggered + upper threshold)

Posted on 15 February 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

Following some very helpful comments to previous articles I am outlining the trigger mechanism in more detail and I want to go back to look at the reasons why we might have a relatively stable inter-glacial temperature. See also: Introduction … Continue reading →

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Toward a new theory of ice-ages XII (The Haseler Gap)

Posted on 14 February 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

This is a repeat of the article in which I describe how temperature and CO2 are not correlated around 16,000 years after the inter-glacial peak. For those not familiar with my sense of humour the “Haseler Gap” also refers to … Continue reading →

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Valentine greeting

Posted on 14 February 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

To the one I love So no excuses for sitting on the couch watching TV or reading a book, get that heart racing as

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Toward a new theory of ice-ages XI (Hadley Cells)

Posted on 13 February 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

In the previous introduction and article on cycles I covered ground that will be familiar to many. In this article I want to look at Hadley cells and start to consider other ways the planet might operate. See also: Introduction … Continue reading →

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Toward a new theory of ice-ages X (5million years of cycles)

Posted on 12 February 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

So far we have discussed ice-age cycles as if there is one and only one type of cycle of around 100k years. In this article I want to put flesh onto that skeleton and look at the variety of cycles … Continue reading →

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Toward a new theory of ice-ages IX (Drying of climate)

Posted on 11 February 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

After discussing how reducing CO2 could modulate H2O to produce a drier and therefore colder climate I want to review the evidence for that colder climate in the ice-age. To recap In the last article (How CO2 could control climate) … Continue reading →

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Toward a new theory of ice-ages VIII (How CO2 could control climate)

Posted on 10 February 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

This article explores how changes in CO2 might be linked through plant growth to global water vapour and thus provide a potential indirect mechanism by which CO2 might influence climate. To recap So far I have introduced the concept of … Continue reading →

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Climategate II?

Posted on 10 February 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

After Booker’s article in the telegraph: “The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever“, based on Paul Homewood’s work exposing what appears to be fraudulent changes made to S.American temperatures, things are certainly heating up.

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Toward a new theory of ice-ages VII (hitting the buffers)

Posted on 9 February 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

In this article I explain why the evidence shows we are unlikely to get runaway global warming in the present inter-glacial period and propose a simple mechanism. Recap So far I have proposed a timing mechanism explaining the long period … Continue reading →

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