Proceedings
Jan-Erik Solheim: Norwegian, Nordic and International Climate Realist Conferences 2014-2018
SCC Volume 2.1. The organization Climate Realists of Norway was started in 2009 and part of our activity is topresent facts about climate and climate change in public meetings. It soon became evident that many of our members wanted to learn more about climate to be stronger in the public debate. We therefore started internal…
Guus Berkhout: World Climate Declaration
SCC Volume 2.1. The past 150 years show that affordable and reliable energy is key to financing basic needs, such as food, health, sanitation, housing, electricity, and education. The past 150 years also show that more CO2 is beneficial for nature, greening the Earth and increasing the yield of crops. Why do world leaders ignore…
Peter Ridd, The Replication Crisis
SCC Volume 2.1. 1. IntroductionThe replication crisis is a phenomenon widely accepted in major institutions of science (Ioannidis, 2005, 2014, Baker 2016). Roughly half of peer reviewed scientific literature is probably flawed or totally wrong. There are almost certainly problems in all fields of science. How did this problem develop? The inadequacies of the peer…
Karl Iver Dahl-Madsen, Mariculture: A Resource-efficient Food Production
SCC Volume 2.1. Due to a resource-efficient food production – famine will be a thing of the past in our affluent society. Famine due to climate change is simply not true. We can easily feed everyone – even if we are more than ten billion people. 1. BackgroundMost of the issues we have in the…
Susan J. Crockford, The Polar Bear Catastrophe that Never Happened
SCC Volume 2.1. Since the start of this century, polar bears have been an icon for all that’s worrisome about human-caused global warming. Polar bears are the most-used example to try and convince the public that burning fossil fuels already has had – and will continue to have – a harmful effect on the planet.…
Morten Jødal, Is Life on Earth Really Dying?
SCC Volume 2.1. We are told about a 6th mass extinction of species and disappearance of the biological diversity. Facts contradict these claims. We know only a few species going extinct since 1500. The extinction rate is going down. All humans on Earth experience a larger diversity in their natural local surroundings. Most species have…
Peter Ridd, Is the Great Barrier Reef Threatened?
SCC Volume 2.1. The popular news media have in recent years been deluged with stories claiming that the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is severely damaged and has a very poor outlook for the future. Major threats to the reef supposedly include rising temperatures, ocean ‘acidification’, and pollution (sediment fertiliser and pesticides) from agriculture on the…
Harald Yndestad, Lunar-driven Control of Climate and Barents Sea Eco-systems
SCC Volume 2.1. 1. IntroductionHerring periods and cod periods along the Norwegian coast have been known for more than 1000 years. Periods of growth in the fisheries, have formed the basis for settlement, industrialization, economic growth, and wealth. Periods, when the fish disappeared, led to emigration, hunger, and poverty. Over the years, one has questioned…
Jan-Erik Solheim: The Barents Sea Ice Edge During the Last Centuries
SCC Volume 2.1. To figure out what is driving the climate change it is vital to observe long climate series. In this contribution I will report about data collection and analysis of a climate series covering the position of the Ice Edge in the Barents Sea for more than 440 years. A clear sign of…
Frank Lansner: Temperature at the Coast and Inlands
SCC Volume 2.1. We can divide the land climate in two categories: the continental climate with warm summers and cold winters, and the maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters. This is a report of a project where we have analyzed temperature data 1900-2010 from many (thousand) meteorological stations across the world, to figure…
Ole Humlum: Useful Lessons from Earth’s Past Climate
SCC Volume 2.1. Outlining a few past geological events is useful to clarify the overall importance of climatic variations, and to place our perception of modern changes in a broader context. During an interglacial-glacial cycle, lasting for about 100 ka (kilo-years) years and occurringwith fairly regular periodicity since mid-Quaternary about 800 ka ago (Lowe and…
Ronan Connolly: Snow, Ice and Temperature Trends in the Arctic and Antarctic
SCC Volume 2.1. The term “cryosphere” refers to the frozen water regions on the Earth: e.g., glaciers, snowcovered regions, sea ice and permafrost regions. Glaciologists define an “ice age” for the Earth as periods where permanent ice sheets are present in both hemispheres. Therefore, technically, since there are permanent ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica,…
Nils-Axel Mörner: The Gulf Stream Beat
SCC Volume 2.1. This talk is devoted to the science of the Oceans with special reference to the Gulf Stream Beat. Forcing of the ocean circulation system is controlled by the planetary beat on the Sun, Moon, and the Earth. The sea is not at all in a rapidly rising mode. The ocean circulation can…