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Credit: airbus.com If the headline seems puzzling, try the article that follows it. We’re taken back to the imaginary world of atmospheric ‘blankets’…

Surprise effect: Methane cools even as it heats, say researchers

The only reason to write books about reconciling science and religion—as opposed to, say, reconciling sports and religion or business and religion—is if the two fields conflict in some way, and thus… 1,653 more words

Sunday Times gives a lukewarm review to an accommodationist book — Why Evolution Is True

Nicolaas Buitendag, States of exclusion: A critical systems theory reading of international law – Aosis, 2023 (print and open access e-book) The theoretical underpinnings of public international law have taken the sovereign status of the nation-state for granted since the beginning of the modern era. After centuries of evolution in legal and political thought, the […]

Nicolaas Buitendag, States of exclusion: A critical systems theory reading of international law – Aosis, 2023 (print and open access e-book) — Progressive Geographies

Since the early 1990s the conventional assumption, aligned with modeling, has been that a molecule of human CO2 emission stays in the atmosphere –  its residence time – for centuries. This fits the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) narrative. But empirical evidence contradicts these model-based assumptions. Residence time is closer to 5-10 years. In Table 1 […]

New Study: Atmospheric CO2 Residence Time Is Only 5 Years – Too Short To ‘Affect The Climate’ — Iowa Climate Science Education