In a previous article, I determined the average surface temperature of Earth without an atmosphere using a collection of equal-area pieces of our planet. What’s interesting is that many places, on average, are hotter without the so-called greenhouse effect than with it! And it’s not a small amount of places! The following are latitude bandsContinue reading “No Greenhouse Effect Here”
Category Archives: Climate Science
Shrinking GH Effect Closer to Reality
In a previous article, I attempted to figure out a more accurate surface temperature for an imaginary Earth with no atmosphere compared to the standard approach of completely neglecting surface emissivity. The formula I used is: The result I got was 273.6 K. This gives me a theoretical greenhouse gas warming of about 16.1 K,Continue reading “Shrinking GH Effect Closer to Reality”
7 Decades of Net Solar Radiation
Imagine thinking that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate (IPCC) is an actual legitimate scientific organization and seeing this diagram: “Woah” you think to yourself. “Look at what humans have done!” Notice, there is one natural factor: “Solar Irradiance”. But what they don’t tell you is that this is solar variation at the top of theContinue reading “7 Decades of Net Solar Radiation”
Python NetCDF Latitude Area Weighted Global Average
The earth is not flat, and it’s not a sphere. If you’re doing data analysis on climate netcdf files with the Python programming language, you may need to figure out how to properly average gridded data over oblate spheroid Earth. Unfortunately there is few to no simple guides on how to do this properly. SearchingContinue reading “Python NetCDF Latitude Area Weighted Global Average”
6 Decades of Snow Water Equivalent
Scientists developed a very high resolution dataset that goes back 6 decades: TerraClimate (Nature link). I am continuing my examination of their data (with model stuffing). Today I will look at their swe series from 1958 to 2021 (inclusive). swe stands for Snow Water Equivalent. Let’s see what the data shows … I expected anContinue reading “6 Decades of Snow Water Equivalent”
6 Decades of Shortwave Radiation
Scientists developed a very high resolution dataset that goes back 6 decades: TerraClimate (Nature link). I will/may be examining their data (with model stuffing) in the next few posts. The first thing I downloaded was the srad dataset, all 8.4GB of it, from 1958 to 2021. srad means Shortwave Radiation (to Surface). I was aContinue reading “6 Decades of Shortwave Radiation”
20 Years of Climate Change
Hi! My name is Zoe, and I’m a highly respectable person and therefore a climate alarmist. Humans are causing severe climate change and 99.999999+ bazillion percent of scientists agree. Only a few bad and uneducated people disagree. I will show them with sound reasoning why they are wrong. Here’s the best evidence that humans areContinue reading “20 Years of Climate Change”
Global Fires 2
In a previous post, Trend in Global Fires, I showed the global fire trend in the last 21 years. I found a source with more data, extending to 1982. It comes from a project funded by European Space Agency. Right here. Actual data is downloaded from UK servers, here. 1994 is missing in their data,Continue reading “Global Fires 2”
USCRN Cooling
What is USCRN? One of the principal conclusions of the 1997 Conference on the World Climate Research Programme was that the global capacity to observe the Earth’s climate system is inadequate and deteriorating worldwide and “without action to reverse this decline and develop the GCOS [Global Climate Observing System] , the ability to characterize climate change and variationsContinue reading “USCRN Cooling”
Global Sea Ice Area 2
I found two more sources of sea ice concentration data. One is the Hadley Centre, in the UK (Description and Data), and the other is NOAA (Description and Data [Used Monthly]). Here’s what they look like: What to make of such a large difference? I’m not sure. I’ll have to skip this question for now.Continue reading “Global Sea Ice Area 2”
Global Sea Ice Area
According to many sources (including National Snow and Ice Data Center), global sea ice has been drastically decreasing for a long time. Today I will show you a very legitimate source that will have you question this fact. The data comes from NASA, specifically here, or here. The relevant data variable is called FRSEAICE. IContinue reading “Global Sea Ice Area”
Real Global Snowfall Trend
In a previous post, I tried measuring the global snowfall trend over the last 41 years using a pixel color technique because I couldn’t find the original data behind NASA’s public images. I have now found the higher resolution data needed to find the most accurate global snowfall trend. The data is from here1. TheContinue reading “Real Global Snowfall Trend”
Global Hurricane Hours
Climate alarmists claim that hurricane frequency is increasing. I have already dealt with this for the Atlantic, here. There was no trend. Today, I will analyze global data. NOAA sponsors the largest collection of historic hurricane data: IBTrACS (International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship). There is 13,545 storms archived going back to 1842, fromContinue reading “Global Hurricane Hours”
On Albedo
Albedo is a measure of reflected incoming radiation. It’s extremely vital in climate science, and so it’s important to know what it actually is, and what its trend was. I was taught in school that albedo is 0.3. NASA’s Earth Factsheet lists it as 0.306. I have always used 0.3 for quick calculations. Most climateContinue reading “On Albedo”
Atlantic Hurricanes Trend
Climate alarmists claim that Atlantic hurricanes will increase in frequency and intensity due to emission of carbon dioxide. Is this true? NOAA provides the data (HURDAT2) we need to examine this claim. Let’s first look at the frequency of hurricanes: Their first claim has some evidence, but let’s give this some thought: is measuring theContinue reading “Atlantic Hurricanes Trend”
Land Drought Index Trend
The Standard Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) data gives us anomaly drought conditions over land spanning from 1901 to 2018 (inclusive) in monthly 0.5 degree latitude/longitude format. Today I combined all this grid data into a global land-only drought anomaly index and show its trend over time. Result: Looks like it’s getting dryer over land, but itContinue reading “Land Drought Index Trend”
Warming near Coal Plants
I was learning some Python over the weekend, and then afterwards decided to go for a jog at my favorite spot. As I was jogging, I thought about finding out what the temperature trend at this location was by extracting and plotting it with Python. This site seems to offer the best local 4km dataContinue reading “Warming near Coal Plants”
Snow in the Era of Global Warming
NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS DEPRECATED. GO HERE FOR UPDATE. Is anyone curious to know what the global snowfall trend was in this era of “extreme” global warming? I was. Luckily NASA covertly provides us with all the necessary data to figure this out. I downloaded all available monthly images from 1980 to 2020 (inclusive), suchContinue reading “Snow in the Era of Global Warming”
4 Decade Global Snowfall Trend
NOTE: THIS POST AND CODE IS DEPRECATED. PLEASE GO HERE FOR UPDATED VERSION. Is anyone curious to know what the global snowfall trend was in this era of “extreme global warming”? I was. Luckily NASA covertly provides us with all the necessary data to figure this out. I downloaded all available monthly images from 1980Continue reading “4 Decade Global Snowfall Trend”
Trend in Gross Primary Production
I downloaded all 8-day increment Gross Primary Production data from NASA from 2001 to 2020 (inclusive) to find the 20-year trend. The Result: This is all good news. Enjoy 🙂 -Zoe The Code:
Global Water Dynamics
I think this dataset is very interesting. We can monitor global water level changes from 1999 to 2020 layered on top of google maps here. I naturally chose the Maldives as the starting point to see if the tiny islands nation is “doomed” as climate alarmists like to claim. Of course it isn’t. Seldom anyContinue reading “Global Water Dynamics”
Trend of Chlorophyll in Water
NASA has a data product that tracks the amount of chlorophyll in water across the globe. I downloaded all available 2003-2020 (inclusive) monthly data in 1440 by 720 pixel format to see how chlorophyll in water changes over time. This task is actually not easy because there’s a lot of missing data (black pixels). IContinue reading “Trend of Chlorophyll in Water”
Coastal Sealevel Rise
Climate alarmists are worried that the sea level is rising too fast and flooding is coming soon. You can find many data images like this on the net: 3.2 mm/year. The problem is that this is for all ocean water. If flooding is a concern, then shouldn’t we ask what is happening at the coasts?Continue reading “Coastal Sealevel Rise”
Accurate Global Greening
In a previous post, Fortunate Global Greening, I used low resolution NASA data to determine changes to Vegetation Index. I did this because I didn’t want to spend 5 hours downloading 23 gigabytes of data for the highest resolution. I didn’t think this would matter that much, but unfortunately for me, it does. Here’s theContinue reading “Accurate Global Greening”
Land Change in Australia
This is for my Aussie fans. I show how Australia’s landscape changed from 2001 to 2019 using best available satellite data. Parts of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea that should appear on the map, are changed to water. Changes: Columns are in overall percent, except the last, which shows percent change from 2001 to 2019.Continue reading “Land Change in Australia”
Surface Change
NASA provides global land cover classification data: Unfortunately it stops in 2011. I did a little bit more digging and found a great resource here. What I wanted to do was show surface changes over time. Here’s my result: Each year column shows coverage by percent, and last column shows the percent change from 2001Continue reading “Surface Change”
Trend in Global Fires
Climate alarmists claim that an increase in man-made greenhouse gas emission will cause more fires. For example … Human-induced climate change promotes the conditions on which wildfires depend, increasing their likelihood … — ScienceDaily Funk … says there is very well documented scientific evidence that climate change has been increasing the length of the fireContinue reading “Trend in Global Fires”
Fortunate Global Greening
Update: See new information. NASA offers a data product called a Vegetation Index. This can be used to track how green the Earth is. Although many are familiar with recent global greening, I prefer to always check the source data. And so I downloaded all of their available 16-day-increment data from 2000 to 2021. Here’sContinue reading “Fortunate Global Greening”
Effect of Clouds on Global Upwelling Radiation
I downloaded and analyzed 10 Gigabytes of data fully covering years 2003 to 2019 from “the only project worldwide whose prime objective is to produce global climate data records of ERB [Earth’s Radiation Budget] from instruments designed to observe the ERB” [site] [data] in order to see the effect of clouds at the surface, especiallyContinue reading “Effect of Clouds on Global Upwelling Radiation”
Greenhouse Gases as Coolants
There, I said it. Don’t believe me? I will show you … NASA offers an online tool for measuring the effects of clouds, aerosols, and greenhouse gases. Set Output to OUTPUT_details. Note the CO2 (ppmv) setting in the bottom left. Click Compute button to express form changes. Output comes below the form, so scroll down.Continue reading “Greenhouse Gases as Coolants”
Geothermal Denial
Climate “scientists” look at Earth’s geothermal heat flux, see that it’s small (~0.1 W/m²), and then conclude geothermal can’t possibly predominantly explain Earth’s surface temperature. This is plain wrong. I came up with an illustration to demonstrate my point a while ago: This is a fictional planet. I did this on purpose to accentuate myContinue reading “Geothermal Denial”
Ozone Hole Watch
NASA provides extensive ozone data. I wanted to see what it looks like over time. The following charts describe the following: The ozone hole area is determined from total ozone satellite measurements. It is defined to be that region of ozone values below 220 Dobson Units (DU) located south of 40°S. — Link Note: 1995Continue reading “Ozone Hole Watch”
Climate Scientists vs Air Force
MODTRAN is a tool developed by US Air Force and Spectral Science, Inc to model absorption in the atmosphere. A free version is available from University of Chicago here. Let’s start playing with this tool. We set all atmospheric gases and other parameters to zero. The ground temperature doesn’t change – contra the opinion ofContinue reading “Climate Scientists vs Air Force”
The Steel Greenhouse Ruse
Amateur scientist Willis Eschenbach developed a thought experiment to demonstrate how the greenhouse effect “works”: It’s been refuted many times before, but I’ll make it even simpler. The main claim is that the outer shell’s presence will force the inner core to warm up and radiate twice as much compared to no shell at all.Continue reading “The Steel Greenhouse Ruse”
CO2 Versus Global COVID19 Response
With the global economic response to the COVID19 epidemic, we would expect global CO2 to be rising much less than other years, if the theory of man-made global warming is indeed true. I use data from NOAA to see what’s going on. The estimated daily global seasonal cycle and trend value for CO2 are determinedContinue reading “CO2 Versus Global COVID19 Response”
Do blankets warm you?
Believers of the Greenhouse Effect all use the same analogy to get you to believe in their junk science. The site Skeptical Science sets the standard in this article: So have climate scientists made an elementary mistake? Of course not! The skeptic is ignoring the fact that the Earth is being warmed by the sun,Continue reading “Do blankets warm you?”
Geothermal Animated
This was derived from NCEP Reanalysis data, in the tradition of Measuring Geothermal … Enjoy 🙂 -Zoe Addendum geochg.sh: Run it: Windows users need imagemagick package from Cygwin.
What caused 40 years of global warming?
I’m going to ignore the typical nonsense mainstream narrative, and do this analysis in the tradition of: Measuring Geothermal – A Revolutionary Hypothesis. I will use 41 years of NCEP Reanalysis Data. Create a new file fluxchange.sh, and paste: Run it: The results are changes for years 1979 to 2019 (inclusive). The upwelling radiation fluxContinue reading “What caused 40 years of global warming?”
Dumbest Math Theory Ever
Mainstream climate scientists believe in the dumbest math theory ever devised to try and explain physical reality. It is called the Greenhouse Effect. It’s so silly and unbelievable that I don’t even want to give it the honor of calling it a scientific theory, because it is nothing but ideological mathematics that has never beenContinue reading “Dumbest Math Theory Ever”
Deducing Geothermal
I used to be a fan of Joseph Postma before I realized he’s very stubborn and on the wrong track headed for a dead end. I hope he turns around. I highly recommend that everyone read his great series … The Fraud of the Greenhouse Effect (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,Continue reading “Deducing Geothermal”
Measuring Geothermal – A Revolutionary Hypothesis
I’m proposing a brand new hypothesis. Here it is: The so called greenhouse effect is nothing but an artifact of geothermal, flipped upside down. We can measure geothermal quite easily: Geothermal Emission = Upwelling Longwave Radiation – (Downwelling Shortwave Radiation – Upwelling Shortwave) + Latent Heat Flux + Sensible Heat Flux In the language ofContinue reading “Measuring Geothermal – A Revolutionary Hypothesis”
Pressure Change and Real Standard Pressure
The standard mean sea level pressure is defined as 101.325 kPa. This is the standard used in US and International Standard Atmosphere. This value is all over the place. In reality this value was agreed upon by committee and at no time represented the true mean sea level pressure. Most certainly it does not representContinue reading “Pressure Change and Real Standard Pressure”
North and South Hemisphere
Today I will analyze some differences between the north and south hemisphere. I’ll be using NCEP‘s Long Term Mean Air Surface Temperature for 1979-2017, and NASA’s ISCCP Project Insolation data from 1983-2009. Sure the years don’t overlap, but we are using long term averages anyway and don’t care about the time trend. First we needContinue reading “North and South Hemisphere”
Precipitable Water as Temperature Proxy
Precipitable water is a measure of how high water would stack up if all the water vapor in the atmosphere would rain down, right now! It typically ranges between 22.4 and 24.2 millimeters. All the water vapor raining down would add up to about 0.9 inches. Now a little bit of logic: the amount ofContinue reading “Precipitable Water as Temperature Proxy”
Air Temperatures and Average Lapse Rate
Today we will examine 40 years (1979-2018) of air temperature data and derive the average lapse rate. First we need some tools: We will be using NCEP Reanalysis 2 data. Grab it: Create a new file air.sh with: We source the code, to allow its functions to act like command-line commands we can run inContinue reading “Air Temperatures and Average Lapse Rate”
What Global Warming?
Berkeley Earth is a popular resource among climate alarmists. Today I will examine their most popular data, available here. This data is the basis of a very popular meme, the global warming color stripes. But how valid is it? Could it be a misinterpretation? First, we will need three tools: Then download & plot: LooksContinue reading “What Global Warming?”
Why is Venus so hot?
Why Venus is hot.
Hot Plate, Heat Lamp, and Gases in Between
You are sitting on a hot plate (Geothermal). There is a heat lamp pointing down at you (Sun). There are gases in between the lamp and the plate. Mainstream climate scientists believe the surface temperature can only be explained by the heat lamp and the gases. Yes, it “must” be the gases that make itContinue reading “Hot Plate, Heat Lamp, and Gases in Between”
What water vapor feedback?
There’s a [stupid] idea popular among climate scientists that there is an extra warming effect from water vapor due to the fact that CO2 and water vapor have overlapping spectral bands. Is this true?
The case of two different fluxes!
Today I will be investigating the difference between two different types of fluxes that elude almost every climate scientist.