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Troposphere

The proportion of sunlight energy that a photovoltaic cell converts to electrical energy.

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  • Is Warming Accelerating in the Troposphere?
    ...the new NOAA data do not support a claim that warming in the troposphere has undergone a statistically-significant change in trend.
  • The Cooling Side of Greenhouse Gases
    Most people are unaware that the greenhouse gases CO2 and H2O, both warm & cool our planet. When I mention that CO2 has a cooling effect, I’m amazed by the hateful tirades from paranoid people who dismiss scientific truth as “dangerous misinformation”.
  • Scientists have a plan to cool the Earth with a sprinkle of salt
    Could salt help soothe our climate woes? Senior scientist Robert Nelson of the Planetary Science Institute seems to think so. At a recent Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas, Nelson suggested that sprinkling salt above clouds could hold off...
  • A plan to cool the Earth with salt
    Could salt help soothe our climate woes? Senior scientist Robert Nelson of the Planetary Science Institute seems to think so. At a recent Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas, Nelson suggested that sprinkling salt above clouds could hold off...
  • Volcanic Eruptions May Have Slowed Climate Change, New Study Shows
    Image of volcano eruption / Shutterstock According to a recent study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, an unusually high number of volcanic eruptions over the past 14 years may have helped to slow the progress of global warming...
  • UAH Global temperature, down slightly, “the pause” continues
    UAH v5.6 Global Temperature Update for Nov. 2013: +0.19 deg. C by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. The Version 5.6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for November, 2013 is +0.19 deg. C, down from +0.29 deg. C in … Continue reading...
  • Chemtrails or Contrails? Another Alarmist Issue Without Scientific Context
    NOTE: like with the essay Saturday about isotasy/glacial rebound being a myth, I don’t think the chemtrails idea has any merit whatsoever. Dr. Tim Ball points out more bad science – chemtrails, which are really just contrails, and which has...
  • UAH global temperature – up .06C – not much change
    UAH Global Temperature Update for August, 2012: +0.34 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for August (+0.34 °C) was up from July 2012 (+0.28 °C): Here are the monthly departures from the 30-year …...
  • Arctic temperature anomaly uncertainties
    Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. writes of a new paper which suggest that Arctic temperaturehas even greater uncertainty problems. He writes (excerpts) New Paper “A Multi-Data Set Comparison Of The Vertical Structure Of Temperature Variability And Change Over The...
  • May UAH Global Temperature – unchanged
    UAH Global Temperature Update for May 2012: +0.29°C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for May 2012 (+0.29 °C) changed little from April (+0.30 °C), with some warming to near-average temperatures in the tropics...
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