Nature—not Human Activity—rules the Climate

Singer, S. Fred; Battaglia, Francesco

doi:10.1142/9789814365932_0036

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“…This is counter to balloon and satellite observations since the 1960s, which show very small temperature increases in the tropical midtroposphere, compared to those from surface observations (Lindzen 2007(Lindzen , 2008Singer 2008). The physics subsumed in the IPCC models also see a uniform positive relationship between greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and warming.…”

Section: Anthropogenic Warmingmentioning

confidence: 59%

“…Longer as well as shorter run solar variability along with ocean fluctuations, neither of which are well handled by the climate models currently in use, provide more straightforward explanations to the observational record (Lindzen 2007(Lindzen , 2008Singer 2008). On a more speculative note, results from NASA probes suggest that the polar ice caps on Mars are shrinking, and that the planet's climate is the warmest in decades (Nasa 2003), also points to solar activity as the main cause to observed changes both on Mars and the earth.…”

Section: Anthropogenic Warmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…2 The IPCC, in fact, has developed an increasingly moderate view over time on sea level rising, and Lieberman's reference to its 2,500 scientists is fallacious. The four successive Assessment Reports issued by IPCC have gradually reduced their estimates of sea level rise, with the maximum figure projected for 2,100 coming down from 3.7 m in 1990 to 1.2 m in 1995, 0.8 m in 2001 and 0.6 m in 2007 (Singer 2008). Even the moderate 2007 prediction has to be put into a context.…”

Section: Warming and Sea Level Changementioning

confidence: 99%

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The Fallacies of Concurrent Climate Policy Efforts

Radetzki

2010

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Climate policy has assumed an extreme degree of urgency in the international debate in recent years. This article begins by taking a critical look at the scientific underpinnings of the efforts to stabilize the climate. It points to several serious question marks on the purported relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, and expresses distrust about claims of impending catastrophes related to rising sea levels, hurricanes, and spread of infectious disease. It then reviews the concurrent climate policy efforts and concludes that they are incoherent, misguided and unduly costly, and that they have so far had no perceptible impact on anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. The exceedingly ambitious policy plans currently under preparation suffer from similar fallacies. For these reasons, but also because of the remaining scientific doubts and the exorbitant costs that have to be incurred, skepticism is expressed about the preparedness to implement the climate policy plans currently on the table.

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Section: Anthropogenic Warmingmentioning

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Section: Anthropogenic Warmingmentioning

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Section: Warming and Sea Level Changementioning

confidence: 99%

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Radetzki

2010

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“…This demonstrates that natural forces without modern human activities can also lead to strong climate variability, and their effects should not be neglected in the present climate change. New evidences reveal that solar activity may play a large role in regulating the climate features of the Earth (Bond et al, 2001;Usoskin et al, 2005;Scafetta and West, 2006;Svensmark, 2007;Singer, 2008;Eichler et al, 2009;Ziskin and Shaviv, 2012). Therefore, it is still valuable to investigate the influence of solar variability on the Earth's climate change, especially on long time scales.…”

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confidence: 99%

Correlation between solar activity and the local temperature of Antarctica during the past 11,000 years

Zhao

Feng

2015

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

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“…There are two extreme views on the question. They may be called Alarmist [1] and Sceptic [2]. The names are not mine; they are used, for example, by the Australian Steering Committee of the Climate Change Study [3].…”

Section: Climate Changementioning

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A Materials Scientist Ponders Global Warming/Cooling

Kelly

2010

Energy & Environment

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Eminent climatologists support the opinion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that rising global average temperature is due to anthropogenic CO2 emissions. A number dispute this. This paper is written by a physical scientist aiming to understand the controversy for himself. An elementary account is given of the physical theory of the Earth's average temperature so as to introduce the principal parameters: solar irradiance; earth's albedo; physics of the factors determining the emissivity of the earth. The rise in mean global temperature observed intermittently over the last one hundred years has markedly slowed over the last ten. This discrepancy with the prediction of accepted models of a secular change of climate, coupled with the known uncertainties concerning the effects of clouds and of water vapour cast doubt on the accuracy of the models. The lead position of CO2 in forcing a change of climate is hence questioned. The apparent neglect of man-made changes in the distribution of water is emphasised. The uncertainties regarding the behaviour of water vapour and cloudiness must be resolved if the cited causes of any climate change are to be fully reliable.

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Nature—not Human Activity—rules the Climate

Cited by 9 publications

References 138 publications

The Fallacies of Concurrent Climate Policy Efforts

The Fallacies of Concurrent Climate Policy Efforts

Correlation between solar activity and the local temperature of Antarctica during the past 11,000 years

A Materials Scientist Ponders Global Warming/Cooling

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