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 2013/14) – Pattern in Solar Variability, their Planetary Origin and Terrestrial Impacts.

Sub-volume 5.4 collects the Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Climate Conference in Oslo-Gardermoen (August 3031, 2025): “The Climate Knowledge Crisis – how does it impact Freedom of Speech, Journalism, Climate Science and Politics?”

The actual issue 5.3 covers all publications accepted within the period July to December 2025. It contains 7 research articles, one review paper, one essay and one commentary.

Volume 5.3

Table of Contents
Schnell & Harde: The Negative Greenhouse Effect – Part I1
Harde & Schnell: The Negative Greenhouse Effect – Part II10
Grabyan: Global Atmospheric CO2 Lags Temperature by 150 yr between 1 and 1850 AD35
Huijser: Global Warming and the “impossible” Radiation Imbalance81
Schrijver: Historical CO₂ levels in periods of global greening107
Coleman: Could CO2 be the Principal Cause of Global Warming?119
Review Article
Veyres et al.: Revisiting the Carbon Cycle135
Research Article
Ollila: Radiative Forcing of Water Vapour and its Use in Climate Models186
Essay
Müller: On the Residence Time of CO2 in the Atmosphere and the Carbon Mass Balance207
Commentary
Sadar: Frightening Climate Story Lacks Depth of Climate Knowledge213