Category Archives: Climate

The truth about Big green

As a former member of “Big Green” – both being part of the wind “industry” and a senior person in the Scottish Green party (even attending their executive), I knew the people involved in the industry and green party and … Continue reading

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Rising CO2 greening the planet (again)

The problem with the global warming news is that – finding out there is no cataclysmic event coming our way seldom if ever makes the news. And indeed, almost everything that gets into the newspapers these days is firstly in … Continue reading

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Green house gas modelling – some thoughts.

I spent a few days this week creating a greenhouse gas model of the atmosphere – originally intended to show that the greenhouse effect on the various planets can easily be explained using fairly straightforward physics. Initially, I created a … Continue reading

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Physics of a reduced global atmosphere

I have been trying to answer a simple question: “What would happen to our climate if the earth had slightly less atmosphere” In other words, in which direction would various parameters like temperature, windspeed, precipitation head? What follows is my … Continue reading

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Who is odin2 ?

I came across this superb comment by someone named “Odin2” There is no scientific evidence showing that CO2 emissions have ever been the primary cause of global warming. Both of the U.S. satellite data sets for the lower troposphere (RSS … Continue reading

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Regurginates shoots and leaves: the growing cowardice of the Green Journalists

Following another article “A new Dark Age Looms” in the New York Times, I attempted to make a comment …. There was a book “eats shoots and leaves” which was no doubt a favourite of those journalists at the NewYork … Continue reading

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Snow!! And … the next ice-age?

A strange coincidence occurred today. I came down to start doing some work and I noticed that it was snowing. And what should I then find in my email. A paper from Nils-Axel Mörner (who is running the London climate … Continue reading

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Update

Mid March I started writing a “brief outline” of the Caterpillar Effect and how thermal induced tectonic plate movement drives the ice-age cycle. I have already missed two of my self-imposed deadlines and with several key issues still needing “ironing … Continue reading

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The 58 year old pause

Josh had a great tweet today: The #Pause its 58 years old! https://t.co/w1aEk3oZoV … from @SteveSGoddard — Josh (@Cartoonsbyjosh) April 5, 2016 Which took me by surprise as I’d just been speaking to Josh about the same article. But yes! … Continue reading

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Highest recorded temperature in 130,000 years?

As we wave good bye to El Nino at the end of the warming phase of the 60 year temperature cycle, barring another and stronger El Nino in the next few years, it looks unlikely that we’ll see another global … Continue reading

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