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Two days ago, I expressed skepticism that Q-B Lu’s claim for CFC-driven climate change was correct — Climate Science Watch simultaneously dug up evidence that Lu’s thinking is neither new, nor right 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to the disputed paper Q-B Lu, Cosmic-Ray-Driven Reaction and Greenhouse Effect of Halogenated Molecules: Culprits for Atmospheric Ozone Depletion and Global Climate Change, International Journal of Modern Physics B, DOI: 10.1142/S0217979213500732 (early online publication, 30 May 2013) Citation — to Climate Progress debunking of Lu’s paper Climate Nexus, Qing-Bin [...]

Categories: Chemistry,Climate,Climate change,Global warming,Physics,Planetary science,Science

Tagged: CFCs, chlorofluorocarbons, Climate Nexus, Cosmic-Ray-Driven Reaction and Greenhouse Effect of Halogenated Molecules, Culprits for Atmospheric Ozone Depletion and Global Climate Change, Peter Free, Q B Lu, Qing-Bin Lu revives debunked claims about cosmic rays and CFCs, selectively applied statistical associations

Published:: 3 June 2013 – 06:46
Author:: By BrainiYak

If true, this would stand climate change thinking on its head — Canada-based researcher finds statistical evidence that chlorofluorocarbons, not carbon dioxide emissions, are responsible for global warming — and recall that CFCs are declining 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to paper Q-B Lu, Cosmic-Ray-Driven Reaction and Greenhouse Effect of Halogenated Molecules: Culprits for Atmospheric Ozone Depletion and Global Climate Change, International Journal of Modern Physics B, DOI: 10.1142/S0217979213500732 (early online publication, 30 May 2013) Citation — to press release Nick Manning, Global warming caused by CFCs, not carbon [...]

Categories: Atmosphere,Chemistry,Climate,Climate change,Global warming,Physics,Planetary science,Science

Tagged: carbon dioxide emissions, CFCs, chlorofluorocarbons, CO2, cosmic rays, cosmic-ray-driven electron-induced-reaction, Cosmic-Ray-Driven Reaction and Greenhouse Effect of Halogenated Molecules, CRE, CRs, Culprits for Atmospheric Ozone Depletion and Global Climate Change, Global warming caused by CFCs, halogenated gases, lower stratospheric temperatures, Nick Manning, not carbon dioxide, o3, O3 depletion, ozone, ozone depletion, Peter Free, Q B Lu, selectively applied statistical associations, solar irradiance, stratospheric cooling, sunspot number

Published:: 1 June 2013 – 10:19
Author:: By BrainiYak

Methane emission levels across the southern US are apparently higher than suspected — says a comparatively low budget science project 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study Ira Leifer, Daniel Culling, Oliver Schneising, Paige Farrell, Michael Buchwitz, and John P. Burrows, Transcontinental methane measurements: Part 2. Mobile surface investigation of fossil fuel industrial fugitive emissions, Atmospheric Environment, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.03.018 (in press, early online publication, 11 May 2013) Citation — to press release George Foulsham, UC [...]

Categories: Atmosphere,Climate change,Environment,Global warming,Science

Tagged: Atmospheric Environment, Central Valley, Daniel Culling, Envisat, gas and oil, gas chromatograph, George Foulsham, Ira Leifer, John P. Burrows, Michael Buchwitz, Oliver Schneising, Paige Farrell, refineries, Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography, SCIAMACHY, Transcontinental methane measurements Part 2. Mobile surface investigation of fossil fuel industrial fugitive emissions, UC Santa Barbara Scientist Studies Methane Levels in Cross Continent Drive, wetlands

Published:: 16 May 2013 – 11:28
Author:: By BrainiYak

Sahara’s Laperrine’s olive tree — its clonal survival strategy worked for in the past — but allegedly may be unavoidably self-defeating now — (i) an illustration of possible diminished genetic fitness in climate changing times or (ii) biologists jumping to unwarranted conclusions 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study G. Besnard, F. Anthelme, and D. Baali-Cherifc, The Laperrine’s olive tree (Oleaceae): a wild genetic resource of the cultivated olive and a model-species for studying the biogeography of the Saharan Mountains, Acta Botanica Gallica 159 (3): 319-328, DOI: 10.1080/12538078.2012.724281 (26 November 2012) Citation — to press release [...]

Categories: Biology,Climate,Climate change,Conservation,Environment,Evolution,Genetics,Global warming,Horticulture,Science

Tagged: a D. Baali-Cherifc, Algeria, cuspidata, erosion of genetic diversity, F. Anthelme, G. Besnard, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, IRD, Laperrine’s olive tree, Maghreb, Mediterranean olive, Niger, northern Sudan, Olea europaea, Sahara, Sahara olive tree a genetic heritage to be preserved, The Laperrines olive tree Oleaceae a wild genetic resource of the cultivated olive and a model species for studying the biogeography of the Saharan Mountains

Published:: 3 May 2013 – 17:11
Author:: By BrainiYak

Volcanic emission of sulfur dioxide appears to have reduced the anticipated increase in global warming by up to 25 percent over approximately the last decade — a climate modeling study from the University of Colorado 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study R. R. Neely III, O. B. Toon, S. Solomon, J. P. Vernier, C. Alvarez, J. M. English, K. H. Rosenlof, M. J. Mills, C. G. Bardeen, J. S. Daniel, and J. P. Thayer, Recent anthropogenic increases in SO2 from Asia have minimal impact on stratospheric aerosol, Geophysical [...]

Categories: Air pollution,Climate,Climate change,Environment,Global warming,Science

Tagged: and J. P. Thayer, C. Alvarez, C. G. Bardeen, CIRES, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science, J. M. English, J. P. Vernier, J. S. Daniel, K. H. Rosenlof, M. J. Mills, not pollutants, O. B. Toon, optical depth, R. R. Neely III, Recent anthropogenic increases in SO2 from Asia have minimal impact on stratospheric aerosol, S. Solomon, SO2, sulfur dioxide, tamped down recent Earth warming, Volcanic aerosols

Published:: 4 March 2013 – 17:46
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Global warming is already negatively affecting China’s ability to feed and irrigate itself 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study documenting reduced agricultural production Fulu Tao, Zhao Zhang, Shuai Zhang, Zhu Zhu, and Wenjiao Shi, Response of crop yields to climate trends since 1980 in China, Climate Research 54 (3): 233-247, doi:10.3354/cr01131 (18 October 2012) Citation — to broader situational overview Christina Larson, Losing Arable Land, China [...]

Categories: Agriculture,Climate change,Environment,Global warming,Science

Tagged: adapt or go hungry, agricultural production, aquifer, arable land, arid, China, Christina Larson, crop yields, cultivars, drought, Fulu Tao, Henan, maize, northeastern China, northern China, overdrawn, rice, semi-arid, Shuai Zhang, soybean, Wenjiao Shi, winter wheat, Yellow River, yields, Yucheng, Zhao Zhang, Zhu Zhu

Published:: 22 February 2013 – 11:49
Author:: By BrainiYak

Peatland trees may be the primary conduit for methane’s egress into the atmosphere — not the peat surface itself — says a small study done in the Indonesian section of Borneo 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study Sunitha R. Pangala, Sam Moore1, Edward R. C. Hornibrook, and Vincent Gauci, Trees are major conduits for methane egress from tropical forested wetlands, New Phytologist 197 (2): 524-531, DOI: 10.1111/nph.12031 (January 2013) Citation — to press release News Homepage, The wind in the willows, University of Bristol [...]

Categories: Biology,Climate,Climate change,Environment,Forests,Global warming,Science

Tagged: Borneo, dry season, Edward R. C. Hornibrook, Indonesia, lenticels, methane, methane egress, peatlands, pneumatophores, Sam Moore1, Sebangau River, soil surface hummocks and hollows, Sunitha R. Pangala, tropical forested wetlands, Vincent Gauci, wet season

Published:: 15 February 2013 – 16:15
Author:: By BrainiYak

I would not have expected piñon pines to be among the first to be negatively affected by climate warming — but perhaps they have been — according to a University of Colorado study 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to study Miranda D. Redmond, Frank Forcella, and Nichole N. Barger, Declines in pinyon pine cone production associated with regional warming, Ecosphere 3 (12): art120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES12-00306.1 (December 2012) Citation — to press release Jim Scott, Southwest regional warming likely cause of pinyon pine cone decline, says CU study, University [...]

Categories: Biology,Climate,Climate change,Environment,Forests,Global warming,Science

Tagged: 1974 decade, 2008 decade, abscission scars, Frank Forcella, Jim Scott, masting, Miranda D. Redmond, New Mexico, Nichole N. Barger, northwest Oklahoma, Peter Free, piñon pine, Pinus edulis, pinyon pine cone, seed cones, Southwest regional warming, summer temperatures, synchronizing clue

Published:: 14 February 2013 – 17:19
Author:: By BrainiYak

Jason Box, a Greenland ice sheet expert, shares my doubts about the optimistic conclusion that the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling project reported in Nature this month — regarding the purported global warming stability of the Greenland ice sheet 0

Citation — to the Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling project report in Nature NEEM community members [D. Dahl-Jensen, M. R. Albert, A. Aldahan, N. Azuma, D. Balslev-Clausen, M. Baumgartner, A.-M. Berggren, M. Bigler, T. Binder, T. Blunier, J. C. Bourgeois, E. J. Brook, S. L. Buchardt, C. Buizert, E. Capron, J. Chappellaz, J. Chung, H. B. [...]

Categories: Climate change,Glaciology,Global warming,Planetary science,Science

Tagged: A. Aldahan, A. Grinsted, A. J. Orsi, A. Landais, A. M. Solgaard, A. M. Z. Schmidt, A. Miyamoto, A. Quiquet, A. S. Sturevik, A. Schilt, A. Sveinbjörnsdottir, A. Svensson, A. Wegner, A.-M. Berggren, Antarctic, B. H. Vaughn, B. Vinther, C. Buizert, C. J. Sapart, C. Leuschen, C. Panton, C. Reutenauer, C. Ritz, C. S. Hvidberg, C. Stowasser, C. Xiao, D. A. Fisher, D. Balslev-Clausen, D. Dahl-Jensen, D. Leuenberger, D. Raynaud, D. Samyn, D. Steinhage, E. Capron, E. J. Brook, E. Kettner, E. W. Wolff, E. Waddington, E. Witrant, Eemian interglacial, F. Pattyn, F. Prié, F. Wilhelms, folded ice core, G. Gfeller, G. Possnert, G. van der Wel, Greenland, Greenland ice cores, H. A. Kjær, H. B. Clausen, H. C. Steen-Larsen, H. Fischer, H. Gudlaugsdottir, H. Miller, Holocene, I. Cvijanovic, I. Seierstad, I. Weikusat, ice cores, ice sheets, insolation, interglacial period, Ipswichian, J. C. Bourgeois, J. Chappellaz, J. Chung, J. Jouzel, J. L. Rosen, J. Li, J. P. Severinghaus, J. P. Steffensen, J. Paden, J. R. McConnell, J. Ren, J. Schwander, J. Sjolte, J. Uetake, J. W. C. White, J. Zheng, J.-L. Tison, J.-R. Petit, K. Goto-Azuma, K. Kawamura, K. Keegan, K. Pol, K. Steffen, Kazantsevo, L. B. Larsen, L. G. Fleet, Luhe, M. Baumgartner, M. Bigler, M. Guillevic, M. Hansson, M. Hirabayashi, M. Koutnik, M. Leuenberger, M. Montagnat-Rentier, M. Prokopiou, M. R. Albert, M. Rubino, M. Winstrup, Mikulinian, N. Azuma, N. B. Karlsson, NEEM, NEEM community members, Niels Bohr Institute, North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling, O. Eicher, O. J. Maselli, O. Mini, O. Rybak, P. Ditlevsen, P. Huybrechts, P. Köhler, P. L. Langen, P. Martinerie, P. Sperlich, P. Vallelonga, Peter Free, Pleistocene, R. Mulvaney, R. Muscheler, R. S. W. van de Wal, Ribains, Riss/Würm, S. B. Hansen, S. B. Simonsen, S. D. Hur, S. Gogineni, S. Hong, S. J. Johnsen, S. Kipfstuhl, S. L. Buchardt, S. M. Davies, S. O. Rasmussen, S. Schüpbach, S. Sheldon, Sangamonian, T. Binder, T. Blunier, T. F. Stocker, T. Jenk, T. Kuramoto, T. Laepple, T. Popp, T. R. Jones, T. Röckmann, T. Sowers, V. Gkinis, V. Lipenkov, V. Masson-Delmotte, W. T. Sturges, Y. Iizuka

Published:: 30 January 2013 – 08:27
Author:: By BrainiYak

The late 2013 to 2014 Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change Report will reportedly not incorporate melting permafrost’s probably gigantic carbon releases — an omission that promises to make it as subject to controversy as its predecessors 0

Citation Kevin Schaefer, Hugues Lantuit, Vladimir E. Romanovsky, Edward A. G. Schuur, and Isabelle Gärtner-Roer, Policy Implications of Warming Permafrost, United Nations Environment Programme [ISBN: 978-92-807-3308-2] (November 2012) Note This document is not dated. That is why I included the ISBN. The November 2012 date that I have attributed to the report comes from the [...]

Categories: Climate,Climate change,Environment,Global warming,Science

Tagged: carbon dioxide, CO2, Edward A. G. Schuur, greenhouse gases, Hugues Lantuit, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, Isabelle Gärtner-Roer, Kevin Schaefer, melting, methane, permafrost, thawing, Vladimir E. Romanovsky

Published:: 3 December 2012 – 16:39
Author:: By BrainiYak

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Category Archives: Global warming

Two days ago, I expressed skepticism that Q-B Lu’s claim for CFC-driven climate change was correct — Climate Science Watch simultaneously dug up evidence that Lu’s thinking is neither new, nor right 0

If true, this would stand climate change thinking on its head — Canada-based researcher finds statistical evidence that chlorofluorocarbons, not carbon dioxide emissions, are responsible for global warming — and recall that CFCs are declining 0

Methane emission levels across the southern US are apparently higher than suspected — says a comparatively low budget science project 0

Sahara’s Laperrine’s olive tree — its clonal survival strategy worked for in the past — but allegedly may be unavoidably self-defeating now — (i) an illustration of possible diminished genetic fitness in climate changing times or (ii) biologists jumping to unwarranted conclusions 0

Volcanic emission of sulfur dioxide appears to have reduced the anticipated increase in global warming by up to 25 percent over approximately the last decade — a climate modeling study from the University of Colorado 0

Global warming is already negatively affecting China’s ability to feed and irrigate itself 0

Peatland trees may be the primary conduit for methane’s egress into the atmosphere — not the peat surface itself — says a small study done in the Indonesian section of Borneo 0

I would not have expected piñon pines to be among the first to be negatively affected by climate warming — but perhaps they have been — according to a University of Colorado study 0

Jason Box, a Greenland ice sheet expert, shares my doubts about the optimistic conclusion that the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling project reported in Nature this month — regarding the purported global warming stability of the Greenland ice sheet 0

The late 2013 to 2014 Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change Report will reportedly not incorporate melting permafrost’s probably gigantic carbon releases — an omission that promises to make it as subject to controversy as its predecessors 0

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