Monthly Archives: March 2017

Understanding Global temperatures X – 1970s Global cooling and 2000s Pause

Posted on 28 March 2017 by Scottish-Sceptic

In previous articles I explained how the 1970-2000 warming was very likely caused by pollution reduction measures: Understanding Global Temperature VIII – It was the greens wot warmed us!! Understanding Global Temperature ix the role ofCO2 Today prompted by some … Continue reading →

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Guardian: in despair at Trump & still haemorrhaging profits

Posted on 28 March 2017 by Scottish-Sceptic

The Guardian had a headline: Trump begins tearing up Obama’s years of progress on tackling climate change I was intrigued to know just how bad the snowflakes are taking Trumps dismantling of Obama’s absurd and unconstitutional changes. As normal, rather … Continue reading →

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"Proof" disproved and then further proof re Global temperature

Posted on 28 March 2017 by Scottish-Sceptic

Yesterday I proved that global temperature is controlled by the equation: T0  = L.htrop/{1- (Ptrop/p0)^(R0.L/g.M)} Where p = pressure at height h (pa) .. or … Ptrop = pressure at troposphere (assumed to be 0.1bar) p0 = pressure at surface … Continue reading →

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Predicting Planetary Temperature (without referring to radiation)

Posted on 27 March 2017 by Scottish-Sceptic

We are constantly being told that the Greenhouse effect is due to a radiative process. I want to show simply that it is not. Instead as per Ned Nikolov & Karl Zeller I want to show that from first principles it … Continue reading →

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Predicting the surface temperature on other planets

Posted on 27 March 2017 by Scottish-Sceptic

After trying & failing to reproduce the results in the paper “New Insights on the Physical Nature of the Atmospheric Greenhouse Effect Deduced from an Empirical Planetary Temperature Model” by Ned Nikolov & Karl Zeller in which they argue that … Continue reading →

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Initial Results of Survey

Posted on 27 March 2017 by Scottish-Sceptic

If you haven’t done the survey you still can here. First, thanks for those who completed the survey – whilst the the numbers are low with about 10 people having answered the survey, as I have to process them by … Continue reading →

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What Causes global temperature – Quiz

Posted on 26 March 2017 by Scottish-Sceptic

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A third lane for the M8 in Glasgow – at almost no cost!

Posted on 24 March 2017 by Scottish-Sceptic

For decades I’ve been driving the M8 and as it comes into Glasgow from the east at juction 17 (Great Western Road) at any busy time of day, there will be a queue of traffic in the two lanes marked … Continue reading →

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Brexitday meal.

Posted on 23 March 2017 by Scottish-Sceptic

The first item on the list has got to be Brussel sprouts – as there’s bound to be a rush – because any celebrating of leaving Brussels has got to involve sprouts in some way. Next is Champagne  – but … Continue reading →

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The Enerconic or society energy multiplier

Posted on 23 March 2017 by Scottish-Sceptic

In my last article Enerconics II I introduced the concept of the energy multiplier. In other words, we effectively create a pseudo-perpetual motion machine in the sense that the total apparent energy available to society is far higher than the … Continue reading →

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