The Earth’s Climate System — A Short Users Guide. Part 03. — Do you remember when the “Northwest Passage” opened for the FIRST time in human history? You should, it was 2007. Arctic melt opens Northwest passage — Record low for sea-ice retreat. Published 19 September 2007 | Nature 449, 267 (2007) | doi:10.1038/449267b The most direct shipping route between the Atlantic…

The Earth’s Climate System — A Short Users Guide. Part 02. — Arctic Amplification — Understanding why the Polar Zones are warming 4X faster than the rest of the planet. The ARCTIC is warming much, MUCH FASTER than the rest of the Earth. Why is that?

Understanding the Global Climate System isn’t as hard as you think. We have most of the pieces to “SEE” it clearly now. — The Earth’s Climate System — A Short Users Guide. Our planet is tilted in its orientation with the Sun. This drives EVERYTHING about our Climate. It’s what gives us Seasons.

What went wrong. A Climate Paradigm Postmortem. Part Two — Understanding our Current Climate Paradigm. Where it came from and why it gained ascendancy. So, Let’s talk about “Climate Science”. If you are like 99 out of 100 people, you probably have a lot of misconceptions, misinformation, and outdated ideas in your head. You probably think understanding the Earth’s Climate System is too difficult for a…

What went wrong. A Climate Paradigm Postmortem or “How the Fossil Fuel Industry, the Republicans, and the Climate Science Moderates of the 80’s stole the rest of your life” — Here’s a Climate Change trivia question. “What was the last year that global temperatures were lower than the 1951–1980 baseline i.e., what was the last cold year on record?” This question occurred to me two years ago and to my surprise I realized I didn’t know. I couldn’t remember a year when the earth cooled down…

The fight over the Debt Ceiling. It’s not about “the budget”. — SO, I think the Republicans are going to force a default on the National Debt. I don’t think they are going to budge from their position. Because, they aren’t looking at a default, or “14th Amendment” last minute save by Biden, as losing. They don’t care if things get worse. They…

What if I told you there was a way to pull enough CO2 out of the atmosphere to cool the planet down over the next century. How many lives would you be willing to sacrifice to save the FUTURE? — So, I have been thinking about the Climate Crisis that’s going on and trying to see a realistic path forward. A “real solution” that could be done with current tech, would require NO construction of massive numbers of Carbon Sequestration Stations, and could get us to “Net Zero” immediately. …

Anthropogenic Particulate is a form of Geoengineering. Dissecting a Climate Disinformation Campaign and Discussing Historical Geoengineering of the Climate. — Final Part — Let’s talk about what happened to the Climate System in the 30’s.

Anthropogenic Particulate is a form of Geoengineering. Dissecting a Climate Disinformation Campaign and Discussing Historical Geoengineering of the Climate. — Part Two. — Let’s Review. We started with this bit of Climate Disinformation, “What the EPA doesn’t Want You to Know” by David Siegel. If you haven’t read it, you might want to give it a glance. It’s very short and I want to be fair in my critique of Mr. Siegel’s work.