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WMO: Update on 2023/4 Anomalies

Real Climate

The impacts of East Asian SO 2 emission changes (which have dropped precipitously since ~2005) are noticeable in the global mean trends, but because they have been relatively smooth, the impact on the 2023/4 residuals is small. Indeed, we estimate that the contribution from the solar cycle has been comparably large.

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The CO2 problem in six easy steps (2022 Update)

Real Climate

The fact that there is a natural greenhouse effect (that the atmosphere restricts the passage of infra-red (IR) radiation from the Earth’s surface to space) is easily deducible from; i) the mean temperature of the surface (around 15ºC) and, ii) knowing that the planet is normally close to radiative equilibrium. in IPCC TAR).

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The Rise and Fall of the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation”

Real Climate

The aerosol cooling is especially pronounced in the North Atlantic (particularly during summer) as noted by Mann and Emanuel (2005) helping to explain why the apparent “oscillation” is most pronounced in that region. This comparison suggests that the natural radiative forcing must be responsible for the apparent AMO-like signal.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

The most important problem with the sun-climate explanation is that there has been no long-term change in either solar activity or cosmic radiation over the last hundred years that can explain the global warming we are now seeing.

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Invading black hole or neutron star caused star to explode, say astronomers

Physics World

They then compared their candidate sources to equivalent observations of the same part of the sky from the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty Centimetres (FIRST) survey, which was also conducted by the Very Large Array between 1994 and 2005. This means that it appeared sometime between 2005 and 2017.

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Guest Essay: Oil & Gas Industry Waste And Radioactive Drinking Water In Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

Pennsylvania American Water is the drinking water provider across parts of Washington County where Ewing sarcoma cases occurred, and spokesperson Gary Lobaugh told me: “All radium sampling results were non-detect between 2005 – 2019.” This material builds up as a sludge called residuals.

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The enduring mystery of the solar corona

Physics World

Many space missions since SKYLAB have extended our measurements of the corona beyond EUV and X-ray wavelengths, yielding details of the even-higher-energy gamma radiation it emits. Viewed in this way, the problem was “solved” by the Scandinavian physicists Boris Gudiksen and Åke Nordlund in 2005, who used just 3.375 million cells.