Evidence-Based Climate Science: Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming / Edition 2

by Don Easterbrook

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128045886
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	09/29/2016
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	8.46(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Don Easterbrook has done extensive research into the of global climate changes, global warming and cooling, as well as the cause of abrupt global climate changes at the end of the last Ice Age. He studies the relationship of 25-30 year glacial and ocean warming and cooling cycles to solar variation and global warming and cooling. Additionally, he has analyzed the correlation of Quaternary inter-hemispheric climate changes, the of radiocarbon marine reservoir values, Holocene glaciation of the Cascade Range, and the Holocene climate changes, otherwise known as The Little Ice Age. He has analyzed the tephra and lahar chronology of Mt. Baker, and has extensively used shorelines to determine isostatic uplift rates in the Puget Lowland.

Table 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

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From the Publisher

This timely book examines scientific data concerning patterns and causes of past global climate change—including the influences of changes in ocean temperatures, the effect of solar variation, and the effect of CO₂ —as counterevidence to the theory that CO₂ is the primary cause behind global warming