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Murry Salby and Hermann Harde: What Causes Increasing Greenhouse Gases? Summary of a Triology
SCC Volume 2.3. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) classifies the human influence on ourclimate as extremely likely to be the main reason of global warming over the last decades. Particularly anthropogenic emissions of carbon compounds, with carbon dioxide (CO2) as the main culprit and methane (CH4) as a distant second, are made responsible…
Willy Fjeldskaar and Aleksey Amantov: Present Uplift in Norway Due to Glacier Unloading Since the ‘Little Ice Age’
SCC Volume 2.3. The observed present rate of uplift in Scandinavia increases from zero on the western coast of Norway to ~1 cm/yr in the Baltic Sea area. This domelike uplift is generally assumed to be the result of glacial isostasy due to melting of the huge glaciers of late-glacial time. The mountain glaciers of…
Martin Hovland: The Holocene Climate Change Story: Witnessed from Sola, Norway. Part II
SCC Volume 2.3. Transition from interglacial (Eem) to glaciation (Weichsel), to the current interglacial (warm) period, Holocene, including changing sea-levels: transgressions and regressions. Abstract Part 2 reviews some of the pertinent knowledge about ancient climate variations, from ~ 70 Ma BP until the LGM (Last Glacial Maximum), 20 ky ago. There have been four distinct…
Harald Yndestad: Lunar Forced Mauna Loa and Atlantic Variability
SCC Volume 2.3. The source of atmospheric CO2 variations is poorly understood. At Mauna Loa Hawaii, atmospheric CO2 has been recorded from 1959. This is a short period for a reliable variability signature identification. From the 19th century, atmospheric CO2 has been recorded in several short periods over the Atlantic Ocean and Europe. A number…
Hans Schrøder: Less than Half of the Increase in Atmospheric CO2 is Due to Fossil Fuels
SCC Volume 2.3. The question is: What fraction of the observed increase in atmospheric CO2 since 1750 is due to the burning of fossil fuels? Is it close to 1.0 as the IPCC and the climate policy makers would have us believe by saying that all, or nearly all, of the increase is due to…
Murry Salby and Hermann Harde: Theory of Increasing Greenhouse Gases
SCC Volume 2.3. Unlike elsewhere on the globe, temperature in the tropics has increased systematically. From observed tropical temperature, numerical simulations have reproduced the observed evolution of atmospheric CO2, including its annual cycle. Much the same has followed empirically from the observed covariance between tropical temperature and net emission of CO2 – the component of…