“Climate Change Making Days Longer,” studies say, Part TWO

By Robert W. Endlich
Author’s Note: This is Part TWO of a multiple post topic.  Figure numbers remain consecutive across the four parts of the post.

Part ONE is here.
Part THREEis here.
Part FOUR is here.
Presentation is here.

THE “SOLAR CONSTANT” IS NOW VARIABLE? YES, IT IS TRUE!
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When I was an Undergraduate in Basic Meteorology, 1963-64 at Texas A&M, and Graduate Student, 1967-69, Penn State, we learned that the “Solar Constant” was 2 calories/cm**2/sec.  But sometimes we used 1.94 cal/cm**2/sec ….in the CGS, the Centimeter-Gram-Second system of measurements.

Sometimes we used 2 Langleys per second…after this definition, in terms of Langleys, graphic below.

In 2024’s retrospect, the 1960s were seemingly in the Dark Ages of Continue reading ““Climate Change Making Days Longer,” studies say, Part TWO”

“Climate Change Making Days Longer,” studies say, Part THREE

By Robert W. Endlich
Author’s Note: This is Part THREE of a four part post topic.  Figure numbers remain consecutive across the four parts of the post.

Part ONE is here.
Part TWO is here.
Part FOUR is here.
Presentation is here.

ANTARCTIC ICE
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We have geological evidence that since before the Mesozoic, at the very beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs, Earth was much warmer than today, and CO2 concentrations mainly due to warm sea temperatures were around 3000 Parts Per Million, (PPM), compared with the about 420 PPM today. Dr Chris Scotese, author of the Paleomap Project, says of those times, in the early Triassic, ~245 million years ago,

“Warm Temperate climates extended to the Poles.”

The science of plate tectonics was unknown in my days as a Geology Continue reading ““Climate Change Making Days Longer,” studies say, Part THREE”

“Climate Change Making Days Longer,” studies say, Part FOUR

By Robert W. Endlich
Author’s Note: This is Part FOUR of a four part post topic.  Figure numbers remain consecutive across the four parts of the post.

Part ONE is here
Part TWO is here
Part THREE is here
Presentation is here

WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT “CLIMATE CHANGE MAKING DAYS LONGER” UP TO NOW

NPR claims that humans burning fossil fuels controls sea level and that CO2 is “climate pollution.”

Regarding the NPR claim, the data show that sea level is a dynamic property of earth (Fig 3) and was meters higher than today within the historic past. There are numerous examples of this from the NMSU-A WEEK SEVEN class graphics, slides 33-146. 

One example, from 1066,  is when William the Conqueror invaded what we now call England. He landed at Pevensey Castle, which is now a mile from the English Channel and 13 ft above present Sea Level, Presentation Graphics, Slide 145.

The only way to understand this is, that when William landed in  England at Continue reading ““Climate Change Making Days Longer,” studies say, Part FOUR”

TIME Magazine’s 2022 Feature Article, “Earth, Inc” …

“Ignorance Posing as Journalism”  

Robert W. Endlich

Once again, an old magazine in a doctor’s office waiting room was fertile ground for this month’s topic, “TIME Magazine’s 2022 feature article, ‘Earth, Inc’ …Ignorance Posing as Journalism.”

TIME’s 25 Apr/ 2 May 2022 print edition is the source of an absurd article on the alleged climate crisis, supposed journalist-experts waxing, in what they think is eloquent prose, the proclamation that a human-caused, CO2-fueled ‘climate crisis’ is upon us.  In this feature, they write,

“For better or worse, corporations are more involved than ever in how the world handles the climate crisis.”

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The puffery of journalist self-importance starts with a leading editorial by Edward Felsenthal, a Princeton Grad, TIME Editor-in-Chief and CEO, who announces a new TIME division, CO2, bringing

“a climate action program…to help guide every sized business, including ours, in becoming net (CO2 emission) zero and nature positive.”

The article itself is written by self-proclaimed Climate Expert Justin Worland, a Harvard History major who among countless others in Government, The Academy, and now in seemingly overwhelming numbers Continue reading “TIME Magazine’s 2022 Feature Article, “Earth, Inc” …”

Preview and Analysis of “Climate: The Movie”

Robert W. Endlich

I was very pleased to be able to view and comment on the sequel to “The Great Global Warming Swindle,” (GGWS), a serial documentary directed by the UK’s Martin Durkin and released by Channel 4 in the UK in 2007. The sequel, released in 2024, is “Climate: The Movie.”

INTRODUCTION

It is useful to introduce “Climate: The Movie” by describing how the enemies of Martin Durkin, GGWS, and skeptics of climate alarm label the video and its director, Martin Durkin.  A good example of this is in the Wikipedia listing for GGWS.

Figure 1. The Wikipedia listing for “The Great Global Warming Swindle,” taken from the Presentation Graphics. This listing exemplifies the profound ignorance of Big Tech and the so-called “educated elites,” in these specific topics: “scientific consensus,” they’re resorting to name calling “deniers” and “climate change denial.”

The previous phrase, “enemies of Martin Durkin,” might be too limiting. Writ large, this group also includes many/most left-leaning members of society. Some call them the “educated elites;” they include many in Government, Continue reading “Preview and Analysis of “Climate: The Movie””