Articles
David E. Andrews: Clear Thinking about Atmosspheric CO2
SCC Volume 3.1. Several articles have been published in this journal purporting to show that the well-documented rise in atmospheric CO2 is a natural phenomenon rather than human caused. His note reviews the overwhelming case that human activities are the cause. It identifies specific misunderstandings about the carbon cycle and errors in the interpretation of…
John A. Parmentola: Celestial Mechanics and Estimating the Termination of the Holocene Warm Period
SCC Volume 3.1. This paper addresses several issues concerning Milankovitch Theory and its relationship to paleoclimate data over the last 800,000 years. The approach taken treats the insolation as it is physically, a time-dependent wave. A parameter free model, based solely on the earth’s celestial motions and the sun’s rays, is presented that partitions the…
Kees le Pair and Kees A. de Lange: On the Theory of the Earth’s Physical Parameters, Distributed in Space and Time
SCC Volume 2.3. Present day treatises dealing with weather and climate often use seemingly physical quantities, while they are in fact averages of such. Inserting these into formulas is physically not permitted. It leads to an assumption of the magnitude of the so-called ‘greenhouse effect’ several tens of K off. The often-used explanation of the…
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…