Over the past month or so I have been writing a small multi-part series about the most newsworthy climate papers from the last decade. It's fascinating to see how the media latches on to the most sensational papers. This is how you construct a false climate crisis narrative. 🧵 Part 1: "In summary, the most newsworthy climate paper in 2014, claiming that the USA will see an increase in lightning strikes and lighting-associated fatalities, injuries, and property damage, due to AGW, has not been observed." irrationalfear.substack.com/p/examining-th…

Lots of talk about heat domes and record temperatures throughout the Midwest...

Did you know that only 2/12 of the hottest days in the Dallas/Fort Worth area are in the 21st century?

Source:

#heatdome #heatwave #ClimateEmergency #climate

🧵 weather.gov/fwd/dgr8mxmn
And in Chicago, IL...

Of the >65 days that have had a high of 100F or above only 5 are in the 21st century.

Source: weather.gov/lot/Chicago_Te…

Currently, about half the world's population relies on synthetic fertilizers produced from fossil fuels. Before you go blocking traffic and glueing yourself to something you better have a solution to ensure that these people won't starve in your plan to save the planet. #climate The Haber-Bosch process is a chemical process that converts nitrogen gas (N₂) from the air and hydrogen gas (H₂) from natural gas or other hydrocarbon sources into ammonia (NH₃). It was developed in the early 20th century and is one of the most important industrial processes.

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A flood event in Italy is not climate it's weather. There has been a decrease in floods in #Italy since 1950. #italyflood #italyfloods

Source: data.4tu.nl/datasets/5555a… Fires in Canada are not climate they are weather. Fires in Canada have decreased since 1989. Source: cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/ha/nfdb #CanadaFires #AlbertaWildfires #climate

This comment by @IPCC_CH is incorrect. There has been NO increase in the frequency or intensity of extreme weather events 👇. The increase from the '70s to the late 90's is an artifact of increased global interconnectivity and better reporting. In fact, the @UN Office of...

https://twitter.com/IPCC_CH/status/1641722597258788864

...Disaster Risk Reduction (@UNDRR) was started in late 1999. In reality, in the last 25 years, the number of natural disasters and extreme weather events has DECLINED. Let's look at costs and damage...

Why do geologists think that fossil fuels are the remains of fossilized organisms?

1) Geological evidence: Fossil fuels are found in sedimentary rocks that are typically formed from the accumulation of sediments at the bottom of oceans or lakes. 1/5 2) Chemical composition: Fossil fuels are primarily composed of hydrocarbons, which are molecules made up of hydrogen and carbon atoms. These molecules are similar in composition to the organic material found in living organisms, such as plants and animals. 2/5

What role does Earth's magnetosphere play in climate change?
The Earth's magnetosphere plays an important role in protecting the planet from harmful solar radiation and charged particles. However, its direct impact on the Earth's climate is not yet fully understood. 1/5 One way in which the magnetosphere can indirectly affect climate is by modulating the amount of cosmic rays that reach the Earth's surface. Cosmic rays are high-energy particles that originate from outside our solar system and can impact cloud formation by ionizing... 2/5

Climate proxies are indirect measurements of past climate conditions that can provide insights into how the Earth's climate has changed over time. However, there are several sources of error associated with climate proxies that can limit their accuracy and reliability. 1/7 One source of error is natural variability. Climate proxies are influenced by natural fluctuations in the Earth's climate system, such as changes in solar radiation, volcanic activity, and ocean currents. These natural variations can make it difficult to distinguish... 2/7

The essential crux of the anthropogenic global warming theory is that for the past 800k years, global atmospheric CO2 concentrations only fluctuated between 180-300ppm and thus the increase to the current levels of 420ppm is from anthropogenic emissions. But, how good are... ...ice cores at recording short-term fluctuations in atmospheric CO2 concentration? In order to address this question one must look at how glacial ice forms and on what timescales. In the figure below you can see that it takes long periods of time to form glacial ice. Thus...

Modern records cannot be spliced onto proxy records because proxy records, such as ice cores, tree rings, or sediment cores, represent historical climate information from the past. These records are used to reconstruct past climate conditions and provide a baseline... ... for understanding how the climate has changed over time.
Modern records, on the other hand, are direct measurements of present-day climate conditions, such as temperature, precipitation, and atmospheric composition. While they can provide valuable information about...

The sun is the primary source of energy for the Earth's climate system, and variations in the sun's energy output can influence the Earth's climate in several ways. Here are some ways in which the sun can influence climate... 1) Solar radiation: The Sun emits energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation, which includes visible light, ultraviolet (UV) radiation, and infrared (IR) radiation. This energy heats the Earth's atmosphere and surface.

My climate journey from true believer to staunch realist...

I always wanted to be a scientist after taking AP biology from Mr. Nelson in 1994. My original passion continued to be biology and I received a BS in biochemistry and cellular biology from @UCSanDiego and... ... started working as a molecular biologist for a novel vaccine company in biotech beach. As an avid outdoorsman, I had always been drawn to nature and found myself longing to mix my love for the outdoors and my passion for science. This lead me to earth science and...

I would love to get feed back from the African American community on the rise of DEI.

I ask this because of an experience my father had with one of his most memorable MBA students. The student was an African American gentleman that went on to become a very successful... ...executive in a local hospital and one of the most respected business leaders in the community. My father and him kept in touch as local business leaders stay involved in the business school many times. My father asked this gentleman what he felt about, what at the time...

Why I am leaving the University of Alabama:

Some internet sleuths have discovered that I will be leaving my faculty position in the Department of Geological Sciences after this semester so I thought I should tell you why. As with most large decisions, the reasons... ...are mainly personal. COVID made me realize that we were really far from our families in CA and the travel on our elderly parents was taking a toll. The result was that our children were not seeing their grandparents very often. As a Polish immigrant I know what it's like...

I don't blame young people for being climate alarmists and activists. In fact I would have likely been next to them a decade ago. Young people are passionate about protecting the environment and have been manipulated to firmly believe... nature.com/articles/d4158… ...that atmospheric CO2 is a pollutant. I also don't blame the MSM for catastrophizing every weather event in an attempt to push a climate emergency narrative. They have always operated under the "if it bleeds it leads" philosophy. Nor do I blame governmental organizations...

If we are in a climate emergency... It's not in lives lost due to natural disasters or an increase in geophysical, hydrological, meteorological,or climatological disasters. So where specifically is the emergency? It's in the failed predictions. #climate #ClimateEmergency No increase in global land area burned and no increase in global major hurricane frequency. Where is this emergency I keep hearing about?

No matter what the magnitude of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions has on climate (I would argue its overstated by the IPCC) the warming climate has not at all been bad for most of the planet. Yes sea levels are rising slightly (about 1/10th of the rate... ...that they rose after the last glacial) and obviously temperatures have risen (much more in urban areas due to the Urban Heat Island Effect) but people are living longer than ever. Less folks are at risk of famine or malnutrition than ever before. There has been...

The climate alarmists playbook simplified. 1) Lie about today's temperature being higher than anytime in recent history. 2) Lie about the changes in temperature being greeter than anything in recent history. Note: the Younger Dryas had temperature changes of 15°C in a century, we have seen 1°C in a century and a half.