Monthly Archives: January 2015

No Global Warming For 18 Years And 3 Months

Posted on January 6, 2015 | Leave a comment

No global warming for 18 years and 3 months. The catastrophic global warming crowd knows this to be true. They have been working very hard at coming up with an explanation for the pause. In fact there are at least 52 (some say up to 70) published competing theories trying to understand why the temperature is not rising even though atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) continues to rise. The chart below, Figure 1, from a WattsUpWithThat posting by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley illustrates the flat global temperature:

Figure 1. The least-squares linear-regression trend on the RSS satellite monthly global mean surface temperature anomaly dataset shows no global warming for 18 years 3 months since October 1996

Monckton says:

The Great Pause is a growing embarrassment to those who had told us with “substantial confidence” that the science was settled and the debate over. Nature had other ideas.

Read the full paper by clicking here.

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Solar Cycle 24: 2014 Review

Posted on January 5, 2015 | 2 comments

Solar Cycle 24 maximum occurred in February of this year when the International sunspot number peaked at 102. An earlier maximum call was made in late 2011 when the sunspot number reached about 96. That was followed by several months of declining sunspot counts, then activity picked up and a “double peak” resulted. The smoothed¹ number for the peak is 82 (versus the actual monthly value of 102). December 2014 sunspot number was 78. So the smoothed number for December has not yet been calculated, but it is estimated that it will be about 68.

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NASA Satellite:Highest Levels Of CO2 In Southern Hemisphere

Posted on January 3, 2015 | Leave a comment

A new NASA satellite finds the highest levels of atmospheric CO2 in the Southern Hemisphere. One would have expected the highest levels over the Northern Hemisphere where the highest concentration of fossil fuel use occurs. This result is the first publication of the satellite’s measurements so it may be an anomaly.

NASA provided the following “Average CO2 Concentration Oct 1 to Nov. 11, 2014” chart:

Note the scale on the bottom of the chart, that ranges from 387 to 402.5 ppm atmospheric CO2. As you can see the more red the coloring on the chart the higher the CO2 level. Roughly the red begins about 400 ppm. The reddest areas are over South America, Africa, Indonesia, China, the Northern Pacific East of Japan and the Southern Pacific East of Australia.