Episode 15: Just One More Climate Episode

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Episode 15: Just One More Climate Episode

Llewellyn Jones

Feb 19, 2024

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NASA Ignores Its Own Data on Solar Irradiance

Llewellyn Jones

Feb 13

NASA Ignores Its Own Data on Solar Irradiance

Over the last few decades, NASA has launched numerous multimillion dollar satellites into space that measure solar radiation near the Earth. Satellite measurements of irradiance started with the NIMBUS-7 in 1978. Then there’s the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS)

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In 1997, Milanković, Not Greenhouse, Was the De Facto Theory of Climate Change

Llewellyn Jones

Feb 7

In 1997, the environmental publication Ambio—a peer-reviewed journal on behalf of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science—would publish a special edition “commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the publication of Svante Arrhenius’ landmark paper on the greenhouse effect.”

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Michael Mann's Hockey Stick Graph Shouldn't Show The Mid-Century Temperature Decline

Llewellyn Jones

Jan 25

Michael Mann's Hockey Stick Graph Shouldn't Show The Mid-Century Temperature Decline

The infamous “hockey stick” chart is an image produced by climatologists Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley, and Malcolm Hughes in 1999 showing the sharp upswing in atmospheric temperature in the 20th century compared to prior eras. It was prima facie evidence that current era temperatures aren’t just slightly anomalous but far outside the norm.

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The Insignificance and Inconsistency of Sea Level Rise Measurements

Llewellyn Jones

Feb 6

The Insignificance and Inconsistency of Sea Level Rise Measurements

According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), global sea levels have risen 99.8 millimeters—about 4 inches—since 1993 based on measurements from satellite altimeters, or about 3.3 millimeters (mm) per year. Supposedly, a warming climate has led to warming oceans which is melting Arctic sea ice and raising ocean levels. Somehow a…

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