by Sam Mitchell | Mar 6, 2021 | Climate Change
The foundation for government climate policy worldwide is The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) , an international environmental treaty addressing climate change, negotiated, and signed by 154 states at the United Nations (UN). Its policy...
by Sam Mitchell | Mar 6, 2021 | Climate Change
The first thing to note about the temperature of the Earth’s surface is that it has been variable ever since there was an atmosphere, and these variations have had no significant relationship to the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. Historic data show CO2...
by Sam Mitchell | Mar 6, 2021 | Climate Change
The short answer is not much, certainly not enough for anyone to worry about. Furthermore, the temperature change observed is nothing out of the ordinary. In the past 120 years since 1900, there has been a 1.2 degree Celsius increase in global temperature (Lindzen,...
by Sam Mitchell | Mar 6, 2021 | Climate Change
Climate change advocates and skeptics alike can agree that humankind has a duty to be a good and faithful steward of the Earth, our island home. It may or may not be unique in the universe, but we know that it is vanishingly rare. Clarity of thought and careful...
by Sam Mitchell | Mar 6, 2021 | Climate Change
No. The best evidence on [whether there is an acceleration in sea level rise] is tide gauge data from stations in tectonically stable areas with more than eighty years of uninterrupted recording. . Such data show a steady linear sea level rise of about 18 cm [about 7...
by Sam Mitchell | Mar 6, 2021 | Climate Change
If you really want to annoy a climate alarmist cultist, you can assert that global cooling is what we should expect. Nobody knows what triggers little ice ages (LIAs), but some experts expect that a LIA may be coming our way. Why? They cite a strong correlation with a...