Sorry, but this is a long and wordy one. Carbon dioxide makes up about 0.038% of dry air. When I left Marlborough in 1987 it was 0.035% of the atmosphere; when my father left the same establishment in 1958 the value was 0.031%. These changes might seem very small but CO2 has a remarkable ability …
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Series:Global Warming
It’s Never The Ozone Layer…
Earth’s twin planet in the Solar System, Venus, has an ozone layer. The Venus Express space craft detected the signature of ozone about 100 km up in Venus’s atmosphere. Ozone is a molecule of oxygen containing three atoms of oxygen (O3) rather than the normal two (O2) that we breathe. It forms when ultra-violet light acts …
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It’s Not Cool…
The Daily Mail yesterday repeated the myth that the planet has been cooling since 1998. The trouble with ‘man-made climate change’ is that it isn’t based on settled science, despite what the alarmists and their allies at the BBC would have us believe. There is a welter of countervailing evidence that, far from warming up …
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Jolly Hockey Sticks…
Science involves a process called peer review. When a scientist wants to publish his experiment report in a journal for others to read, it has to be submitted to a few other experts in the field who check that the basic science is sound. If they feel that a good job has been done with …
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It’s All Natural…
I am grateful to Greenman3610, who regularly posts videos about the science of Global Warming on his YouTube channel. He listens to the arguments made on both sides and balances the evidence. There is still a great deal of public denial that a problem is developing but the overwhelming weight of the evidence suggests that …
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35 Inconvenient Truths…
In October 2007, Lord Monckton of Brenchley published a response to Al Gore’s book and movie “An Inconvenient Truth”. In it Lord Monckton cites 35 errors in the movie. This came on top of a British judge decreeing that the film contained nine errors that needed to be clearly explained if it was to be used as a teaching aid …
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Is Climate Change Our Fault…
I have had recent correspondence asking me my view on Climate Change. I wouldn’t give my opinion but asked the commenter to say what they thought or had heard. They replied in some detail – although I am assured that there is more to come. I have asked if I could address a couple of the points …
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Prelude…
You may have seen news items about Shell’s Prelude LNG ship – the largest sea-going vessel of all time. I like the graphic above that shows it in contrast to the Sydney Opera House – the ship is the orange shape at the back! It is designed to be a floating platform for extracting natural gas (methane) …
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