Volume 5.3 December 2025
Volume 5 consists of two regular issues 5.1 and 5.3 with publications over the first and second half of 2025 and two extra issues 5.2 and 5.4. Sub-volume 5.2 is a Reprint of Pattern Recognition in Physics (Special Issue 1…
Ollila: Radiative Forcing of Water Vapour
The positive feedback of water vapour has been the basic feature of General Circulation Models (GCMs), which approximately doubles the warming impacts of any other climate drivers. Some published scientific papers have shown that simple climate models without this feature…
Veyres et. al: Revisiting the Carbon Cycle
The authors are critically revisiting the Carbon Cycle and find for the stock-to-outflow ratio of CO2 in the atmosphere a residence time of about five years. Accordingly, only about 5.5% of the atmospheric CO2 stock comes from fossil fuel emissions…
Coleman: Could CO2 be the Principal Cause of Global Warming?
Earth’s average annual temperature has increased by near 1.50C since the 19th century. This has been analysed principally through computer-based climate models built up from causal hypotheses. The resulting theory of anthropogenic climate change (ACC) has the central hypothesis that…
Sadar: Frightening Climate Story Lacks Depth of Climate Knowledge
This commentary is a conflation and revision of the author’s essays previously published in the American Thinker and the Washington Times. To counter climate anxiety, this treatise reflects the limited predictions of climate models, particularly the atmosphere’s temperature profile, where…
Müller: On the Residence Time of CO2 in the Atmosphere
The impression is gained that there is still no conclusive physical description of the global behavior of CO2 absorption/emission in the various reservoirs. There is a growing group that is convinced, the residence time of CO2 in the atmosphere is…
Schrijver: Historical CO₂ Levels in Periods of Global Greening
The increased atmospheric CO₂ level is widely recognized as a primary driver of global greening (a 30% increase in GPP since 1900). It raises the question whether such an increased CO₂ level is also a necessary condition for a large…
Huijser: Global Warming and the “impossible” Radiation Imbalance
Any perturbation in the radiative balance at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) that induces a net energy flux into- or out of Earth’s thermal system will result in a surface temperature response Correspondence: until a new equilibrium is reached.…
Grabyan: Global Atmospheric CO2 Lags Temperature by 150 yr between 1 and 1850 AD
This study investigates whether atmospheric CO₂ precedes or lags global temperature changes over the past 2000 yr, using both visual and statistical analyses. A parallel evaluation of Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) and temperature was conducted to assess the influence of…
Harde and Schnell: The Negative Greenhouse Effect – Part II
For our studies of the greenhouse gas emission – different to a simpler experimental set-up with a horizontally positioned Styrofoam box described in Part I – here we use an arrangement consisting of a vertically placed cylinder with uniformly heated…
Schnell and Harde: The Negative Greenhouse Effect – Part I
In two consecutive studies, the suitability of different experimental set-ups for detecting and measuring the emission of infrared-active gases is investigated, as this is of particular importance for understanding the atmospheric greenhouse effect. The first part presents a horizontally arranged…