Not surprisingly, increasing CO2 in the air is greening the earth due to enhancement of photosynthesis. It’s self-evidently obvious as … Continue reading CO2 fertilisation and the greening of the Sahara
In the background behind the ongoing drumbeat of global warming doom, evidence is accumulating of Southern Hemisphere ocean cooling centered, … Continue reading Widespread signals of Southern Hemisphere ocean cooling (and AMOC heat piracy)
Fanny Monteiro wrote a lovely review of the life history of the coccolithophore plankton, some of the most beautiful microscopic … Continue reading Coccolithophores: calcified plankton who like it hot and hate our ice age cold
Some years ago while washing the dishes and listening to Beethoven’s Moonlight sonata (movement 1 for piano) – the instrumental … Continue reading A choral setting of “The Lord’s Prayer” to “Moonlight Sonata” movement 1 by Beethoven
The simplistic story of CO2 from fossil fuel emissions causing global warming is based on the ability of the CO2 … Continue reading Two’s company, three’s a crowd: a nitrogen threesome joins the IR party
The astonishing D-O fluctuations of >10 C in a few centuries: that’s real climate change If the phrase “ice age” … Continue reading Flicker: an explanation for the “D-O events” – rapid climate fluctuations of the last glacial period
Part 1 The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) owes its existence to an instability. Periodically, the Gulf Stream bringing warm … Continue reading From chaos to pattern in ocean-driven climate
Introduction If one wishes to gain a “heads-up” as to imminent developments in ENSO and possible beginnings of an el … Continue reading ENSO and the anchovy
Paleoclimatology, the study of climate in the past all the way back to deep time, is one of the pillars … Continue reading The breakout from Africa 60 thousand years ago that populated the world
Demographic research shows that by around 2064 the number of people in the world will reach a maximum and start … Continue reading World population will soon peak and decline (doom-mongers wrong again!)
