Climate Change Weekly # 529 – Bad Estimates of Solar Activity and Temperatures Undermine Climate Change Projections
By H. Sterling Burnett
Published December 19, 2024
IN THIS ISSUE:
Bad Estimates of Solar Activity and Temperatures Undermine Climate Change Projections
Ocean Emissions Cool the Climate, Forests Also Cool Oceans Remove More Carbon Dioxide Than Previously Believed
Greenhouse Gasses Are Saturated, Not Causing Warming, New Study Says
Bad Estimates of Solar Activity and Temperatures Undermine Climate Change Projections
The Heritage Foundation recently published a paper from the leading scientists at the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (CERES) that argues the debate over the causes and consequences of climate change is not settled, in part because the climate models likely fail to account for problems with the temperature record and the influence of solar activity on climate.
Concerning the temperature record, the paper points out there are three principal sources of local temperatures that are averaged and combined to produce “global average temperatures,” surface stations, which include both land-based and ocean-based temperature readings, satellite measurements, and weather balloon measurements. The paper describes how average readings are determined and communicated. The problem identified by CERES, a problem others have pointed to previously, including repeatedly by Anthony Watts, is that the surface temperature record is beset by persistent the heat bias stemming from surface stations being improperly located.
CERES shows that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fails to adequately address this and other problems associated with the surface station record, as displayed in contaminated homogenized temperature datasets. CERES’ research suggests that the IPCC’s temperature “data” is as much as 40 percent warmer than it would be were the bias from the urban heat island effect and flawed homogenization properly accounted for.
https://heartland.org/opinion/climate-change-weekly-529-bad-estimates-of-solar-activity-and-temperatures-undermine-climate-change-projections/
