By Andy May No one doubts that Americans have lost faith in our government bureaucracy and the news media. The Pew Research Center, as well as other polls, confirm that public trust in the government has cratered, as shown in the image above. It rebounded during the Reagan and Clinton presidencies but has remained veryContinue reading “The Public has lost faith in Government & the Media”
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The anthropogenic greenhouse effect – a spectroscopic triviality
By Dr. Heinz Hug | Aug. 20, 2012 Translated and lightly edited by Andy May and google translate, the original German post is here. Update 25.9.12 Due to the extremely active discussion, Dr. Hug has revised his article again. What is difficult to understand is presented in a more understandable way and any missing information is added. Summary: Continue reading “The anthropogenic greenhouse effect – a spectroscopic triviality”
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Schwarzschild: About the equilibrium of the solar atmosphere
By K. Schwarzschild, January 13, 1906. Translated by Dr. Markus Ott, 2025 In the opinion of Karl Schwarzschild, “Radiation equilibrium will occur in a strongly radiating and absorbing atmosphere, in which the mixing effect of ascending and descending currents [convection] is insignificant compared to heat exchange by radiation.” Ed. I. Contents. The surface of theContinue reading “Schwarzschild: About the equilibrium of the solar atmosphere”
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The Climate Catastrophe – A Spectroscopic Artifact?
by Dr. Heinz Hug, 1998 Lightly edited by Andy May Summary Laboratory measurements of the infrared absorption of carbon dioxide using an FT-IR spectrometre suggest that the radiative forcing for CO2 doubling must be much less than assumed by climate scientists until now. A reduction factor of 80x is likely.
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Energy and Matter
By Andy May & Tom Shula Revised Feb. 3, 2025 due to reader comments and for clarity. Figure 1 was added Feb. 4, 2025. Fundamentally the entire man-made CO2 global warming concept, boils down to the interaction of energy and matter in Earth’s atmosphere. The only reason that CO2 and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) areContinue reading “Energy and Matter”
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Uli Weber´s Hemispheric Stefan-Boltzmann model.
By Markus Ott I assume that most readers are aware that the 33°C overall greenhouse effect (GHE) is the product of an arithmetically and physically incorrect calculation. It inappropriately averages the insolation evenly over the entire surface of the Earth, as if it were flat and not a rotating sphere, and then uses this averageContinue reading “Uli Weber´s Hemispheric Stefan-Boltzmann model.”
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Facebook “Fact Checks” Prof. Will Happer
By Angela Wheeler The only way to combat censorship is to shine a light on it whenever we see it. In censoring material that contradicts the popular – though increasingly feeble – fiction of a climate crisis, Facebook is quick to discount the credentials of one of the world’s leading scientists while honoring sources ofContinue reading “Facebook “Fact Checks” Prof. Will Happer”
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The errors and misstatements in “Climate Denialism”
By Andy May The featured image is by Josh, used with permission. There are 20 clearly false statements and three additional problematic statements in Tinus Pulles’ “Climate Denialism.” Most of them stem from disagreements on how to interpret existing data. However, some are due to his lack of understanding of what we wrote or, intentionalContinue reading “The errors and misstatements in “Climate Denialism””
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The AJES Response to May & Crok
By Andy May The featured image is the key figure 2 from May & Crok. This post is mostly a list of errors and misinformation in the AJES (The American Journal of Economics and Sociology) board’s response by Ted Gwartney and Alexandra Lough to May & Crok. But first I applaud the board’s decision toContinue reading “The AJES Response to May & Crok”
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Drought in the Southwestern U.S.
By Andy May The featured image is a photograph of the Big Bend area in Texas in October 2015 when the drought index was moderately moist. The photo was taken by the author. Stories of some sort of current catastrophic drought in the western U.S. are greatly exaggerated (apologies to Mark Twain). While the westernContinue reading “Drought in the Southwestern U.S.”
