In the first IPCC Assessment Report published by Cambridge University Press in 1991, a schematic diagram showed a climate history for one thousand years with the warmest period on record about one thousand years ago.
The scenarios driving climate projections — the foundational assumptions about our collective future — described a world so removed from plausible reality that the projections built on them tell us more about a hypothetical future than about the one we are actually navigating.
Die Theorie von Ferenc Miskolczi stellt eine radikale Alternative zum konventionellen Verständnis des Treibhauseffekts der Erde dar. Sie postuliert einen selbstregulierenden atmosphärischen Mechanismus, der eine Erwärmung durch Treibhausgase wie CO2 begrenzt.
Two new studies show that the Earth’s climate is far more complex than often acknowledged, reminding us of the importance of pragmatic energy and climate policies.
Warum es alle hunderttausend Jahre zu einer Eiszeit kommt, konnte bisher nicht komplett erklärt werden. Nun hat ein internationales Forscherteam mit Schweizer Beteiligung die Faktoren identifiziert: Neben der Sonne spielt die Wechselwirkung von Klima und Gletschern eine Rolle.
One of the most pervasive misunderstandings of climate is the belief that any long-term trend in a measured climate variable indicates a change in climate, as defined by the IPCC. In practice, “long-term” is often defined to be only a few decades worth of observations.
Carbon dioxide is indeed the ‘stuff of life’, underpinning photosynthesis, boosting plant growth, enhancing agricultural yields, and enabling practical applications in industry.
Climate scenarios are ridiculously opaque, as if they are designed not to be understood by intelligent people outside the small community of scholars who invent these scenarios. More people should understand how the sausage is made.
