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Evidence-Based Climate Science: Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming, Second Edition, includes updated data related to the causes of global climate change from experts in meteorology, geology, atmospheric physics, solar physics, geophysics, climatology, and computer modeling. This book objectively gathers and analyzes scientific data concerning patterns of past climate changes, influences of changes in ocean temperatures, the effect of solar variation on global climate, and the effect of CO2 on global climate. This analysis is then presented as counter-evidence to the theory that CO2 is the primary cause behind global warming.
Increasingly, scientists are pointing to data which suggests that climate changes are a result of natural cycles, which have been occurring for thousands of years. Unfortunately, global warming has moved into the political realm without enough peer-reviewed research to fully validate and exclude other, more natural, causes of climate change. For example, there is an absence of any physical evidence that CO2 causes global warming, so the only argument for CO2 as the cause of warming rests entirely in computer modeling. Thus, the question becomes, how accurate are the computer models in predicting climate? What other variables could be missing from the models?
In order to understand modern climate changes, we need to look at the past history of climate changes. Vast amounts of physical evidence of climate change over the past centuries and millennia have been gathered by scientists. Significant climate changes have clearly been going on for many thousands of years, long before the recent rise in atmospheric CO2 Evidence-Based Climate Science, Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming, Second Edition, documents past climate changes and presents physical evidence for possible causes.
List of contents
Part I. Climatic Perspectives
1. Climate Perspectives
Part II. Temperature Measurements
2. A Critical Look at Surface Temperature Records
3. Is the NASA Surface Temperature Record an Accurate Representation?
4. In the Climate Debate, Hear Both Sides
5. Southeast Australian Maximum Temperature Trends, 1887-2013: An Evidence-Based Reappraisal
Part III. Extreme Weather Events
6. Weather Extremes
Part IV. Polar Ice
7. Evidence That Antarctica Is Cooling, Not Warming
8. Temperature Fluctuations in Greenland and the Arctic
Part V. Carbon Dioxide
9. Greenhouse Gases
10. Is CO2 Mitigation Cost Effective?
Part VI. Oceans
11. Relationship of Multidecadal Global Temperatures to Multidecadal Oceanic Oscillations
12. Sea Level Changes as Observed in Nature
13. Ocean "Acidification” Alarmism in Perspective
Part VII. Solar Influences on Climate
14. Cause of Global Climate Changes: Correlation of Global Temperature, Sunspots, Solar Irradiance, Cosmic Rays, and Radiocarbon and Berylium Production Rates
15. Solar Changes and the Climate
16. The Sun's Role in Climate
17. The New Little Ice Age Has Started
18. Aspects of Solar Variability and Climate Response
19. The Notch-Delay Solar Hypothesis
Part VIII. Climate Models
20. Correcting Problems With the Conventional Basic Calculation of Climate Sensitivity
Part IX. Climate Predictions
21. Using Patterns of Recurring Climate Cycles to Predict Future Climate Changes
