One Page Summaries (OPS) – Climate

OPS-79 I am helping a small company set up a natural gas fired generation facility out in the Hanna/Sheerness area of Alberta. This project is a microcosm of the “climate

OPS-78 Very small concentrations of some elements/molecules can be very toxic. Arsenic, for example, can be fatal in the 2 to 20 mg/kg range (0.0002% to 0.002%). How is that

OPS-77 Do the atmospheric temperatures drive ocean temperatures or do ocean temperatures drive atmospheric temperatures? A rather basic question that deserves proper consideration. For those that are not aware, the

OPS-76 The 2023 Fire Season in Canada was significantly more active than normal. Although the number of fires (roughly 6,550) was just slightly higher than normal, the acreage burnt (18.5

OPS-75 As I write this post, we are closing out 2023. By the time you see this post, we will be living 2024. I do hope everyone’s Christmas was Merry

OPS-74 This slide totally contradicts the alarmist narrative. CO2 is obviously not driving sea level (a very important climate indicator). The ≈140 ppm CO2 increase since the pre-industrial era is

OPS-73 The answer is obviously NO! The models are currently programmed to reflect the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) alarmist “narrative” (i.e.: the warming since the pre-industrial era is due

OPS-72 Well, the answer is lower, despite all the hype to the contrary. Greenland is in the North Atlantic. So, not surprisingly, Greenland’s temperatures are affected more profoundly by the

OPS-71 Climate Change is Complicated! Unless you believe the Catastrophic Anthropogenic “Global Warming” (CAGW) alarmist narrative (i.e.: “Climate Change” is controlled by trace gases in our atmosphere (primarily CO2)). Full

OPS-70 Real bad, close to the worst of a whole lot of bad models. All those models were reviewed in my CSS-30 – CMIP6 Climate Models post. The Canadian models

OPS-69 – Polar Temperature/CO2 Extrapolations When can we expect the ice in Greenland, the Arctic and/or Antarctica to disappear? The alarmist community would have you believe that the polar ice is

OPS-68 One of the biggest problems climate realists face is the complexity of the Climate Change issue. You simply cannot present all the relevant data and economic/scientific analysis in formats

OPS-67 Here is the yearly fire statistics update. As usual, there is little change in the North American trends. The number of fires in both the US and Canada are

OPS-66 Just a short one pager today. After watching one of Tony Heller’s videos, I noticed that he had built in an annual average temperature function option into his Real

OPS-65 The never-ending diatribe coming from the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) alarmist crowd says our planet is burning up and we (through our emissions (primarily CO2)) are the evil

OPS-64 – Ocean Heat Content (OHC) is often used as an indication that our planet is warming us into oblivion. Yes, the OHC is rising but what do those numbers

OPS-63 Wishing You All a Happy New Year!! Another year has gone by, and the latest hurricane season has once again confirmed that any who are professing that hurricane activity

OPS-62 The Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) alarmist crowd has been known to occasionally ignore some data or take liberties with interpretation. I am not going to litigate those indiscretions

OPS-61 Spoiler Alert for the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) alarmist crowd (that includes the majority of our Calgary City Council). There were substantially more and more sustained hot days

OPS-60 This post puts the current 1.07 °C temperature rise since the pre-Industrial period (as per the IPCC AR6 report) in perspective. The original 2015 Paris Accord target was 2.0

OPS-59 This post is a little add-on to my CSS-10 – A Ride Through the Cenozoic post. When I put the CSS-10 post together, I had not converted the carbon

OPS-58 Something simple but interesting. This post is highlighting a recent video by Tony Heller that points out the absurd situation currently playing out in the US Historical Climatology Network

OPS-57 Another hurricane season has passed us by (in the North Atlantic). The 2021 season itself was quiet and so was, predictably, the media. Gratefully, we were not constantly bombarded

OPS-56 This post has a quick look at the UAH satellite temperature data and the relationships between average global temperature and the atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The correlation is shaky at

OPS-55 2021 has been a very interesting year in climate science (from both the IPCC’s simplistic, unscientific CO2 approach and from the perspective of the real-world science community that recognizes

OPS-54 The Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) alarmist crowd likes to maximize the visual impact of the rising atmospheric CO2 levels (as shown in the upper two plots on the

OPS-53 I always get a kick out of our favorite CAGW alarmist trolls claiming that I am “cherry picking” data. If you go back and review the last IPCC report

OPS-52 The last Climate Short Story (CSS-12 – Cosmic Ray Discussion) included a simple plot that deserves to be highlighted on its own merit. NOAA (definitely not a climate skeptic

OPS-51 This post is an extension of my Holocene Logic Series. The large plot focuses on the last 4,000 years of the Holocene. The planet’s temperature has (in general) been

OPS-50 Hope everyone had a Great Canada Day or just a Great Thursday. I just recently posted a detailed Climate Short Story (CSS-10 – A Ride Through The Cenozoic). That

OPS-48 This is a simple question to ask, but finding the answer is exceedingly difficult. The cost estimates are all over the board, with the only common ground being they

OPS-49 The subject of temperature manipulation (on its own) is a very complex subject (a bit difficult to confine to one page but I am giving it a try). To

OPS-47 The fact checking phenomena currently employed by social and mainstream media is a joke. To start with, the fact checkers routinely interject their biases into their responses. If you

OPS-46 The 2020 North Atlantic Hurricane season was busier than normal but was not statistically significant. Especially since the North Atlantic does not represent the global situation. Funny how the

OPS-45 How effective are CO2 emission reduction schemes? A look at the data shows that despite the trillions of dollars spent to date, the efforts to date have been almost

OPS-44 This post does not present any new data. The primary purpose is to show the general effect of averaging the data and the potential issues on simply plotting data

OPS-43 I have seen these plots or similar ones go by lately and thought it would be worthwhile to show them together (i.e.: synced). A quick hat tip to Gregory

OPS-42 This post takes another look at CO2’s Climate Sensitivity (CCS), condensing the discussion down to one page. A more detailed look was previously posted in CSS-3 – CO2 Sensitivity.

OPS-41 This post combines a recently circulating life representation over the last 600 million years with their corresponding atmospheric CO2 and Global temperatures. The post is somewhat self-explanatory, but essentially

OPS-40 I had updated the UAH Temperature Anomaly (TA) as of November 2020. The UAH update is now using a new Baseline (1991 – 2020). The change from (1981 –

OPS-39 This post is an extension of OPS-38 (Central England Temperature (CET)) post. In that post I focussed on solar activity and the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation’s (AMO) influence on the

OPS-38 Most measured temperature records only go back to the mid-1800’s. The Central England measured Temperature (CET) extends back to 1669 in the middle of the Maunder Minimum. And before

OPS-37 To start, I hope everyone has a Happy New Year (2021 has to be better than 2020, right?). As the 2021 year begins, I want to get back to

OPS-36 This post is an important rehash of earlier posts (just laid out in a different format).  The Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) alarmist crowd is fixated on CO2 (to

OPS-35 Merriam-Webster Definition: Gaia – “the hypothesis that the living and nonliving components of earth function as a single system in such a way that the living component regulates and

OPS-34 This OPS is more philosophical, and opinion related than most of the posts I put out. I have left it in the OPS section because there are plenty of

OPS-33 California Fires – September 2020 To start with, I would like to wish everyone a Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving! So, was California’s 2020 Fire Season a bad one? Absolutely, but

OPS-32 The 2019 Hurricane season did little to change the long-term downward trend of both the Number of Tropical Storms and the Hurricanes. We will have to wait and see

OPS-31 Drought is one of those extreme weather events that the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) alarmists consistently warn us about. But, as with hurricanes, forest fires, tornados, etc. the

OPS-30 There are several avenues of discussion that can be applied to “Climate Change”. Primarily Science and Economics (with the environment and politics intertwined within the two). #showusthedata #globalwarming #climatechange

OPS-29 This OPS focuses in on California specifically and touches on the Australian Bush Fire Season. The Australian data was not readily available, so I have not included my own

OPS-28 We are getting close to the northern hemisphere fire season again and you can be almost certain that the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) alarmist crowd will be back

OPS-27 Condensing this small subject within the Climate Change Discussion down to one page has been challenging. My Climate Short Stories (CSS-1 and CSS-2) and my original One Page Summaries

OPS-26 The AGW alarmist viewpoint is very simple. Continued CO2 concentration increases will lead to catastrophic temperature increases and mankind is responsible for those CO2 increases. The problem with their

OPS-25 I hope everyone is enjoying the New Year/Decade. A cold start here in Calgary, but currently enjoying the warm weather break (and before Leo D. (and the AGW alarmists)

OPS-24 The impending doom forecasted for snow on this planet appears to be premature. Above average, early and late snowfalls are becoming commonplace. Maybe, just maybe Al Gore and many

OPS-23 The topic of sea levels is being totally blown out of proportion by the media and their alarmist cabal. The tide gauges from around the world can be easily

OPS-22 This post focuses in on the basic premise of the IPCC computer models. The models are programmed to literally respond to only “Greenhouse Gases” (primarily CO2). Yet, historical data

OPS-21 This is a very important post. The “Global Warming” alarmist crowd has deliberately downplayed the radiative forcings associated with solar activity (direct and indirect (ocean cycles, cosmic ray intensification,

OPS-20 A continuation of the discussion laid out in OPS-19. Bottomline, there is no atmospheric CO2/Global Temperature data set that shows CO2 driving the climate on any statistically significant time

OPS-19 The whole “Global Warming” Alarmist story is based strictly on computer model projections. That is not science. Computer modelling is a tool but not a proof. The computer models

OPS-18 In reviewing “Climate Change” over these many years, there is one outstanding “BASIC” principle of science that is completely ignored by the “Global Warming” alarmist crowd and the “climate

OPS-17 I (being an engineer) have focused on the science first. But the economic analysis (which you won’t get from our ideological political and media sources) is just as important.

OPS-16 The following OPS summary appears dramatic at first glance. However, the atmospheric CO2 concentration extrapolations shown here (based solely on mathematics not technical science) are neither technically or economically

OPS-15 Just a quick summary to show the Northern Hemisphere snow trends and add to the discussion in OPS-13. Despite the doomsday predictions of no snow for our grandchildren, they

OPS-14 Consensus is unfortunately a very dangerous word in the field of science. As Einstein has famously said (paraphrased), it only takes one person to prove him wrong. There have

OPS-13a A discussion I had recently steered me back to the IPCC website. After reviewing some of the reports (link included on the OPS), I realized again why I went

OPS-12 The deepest problem that the “Global Warming” alarmist crowd has with defending their position is the lack of empirical (real life, historical) data. This OPS puts forward a variety

OPS-11 This is a focused version of OPS-10. The smaller scale is included to get a better picture of FOS annual budget fluctuations. FOS operates as David in this David

OPS-10 I apologize for taking some time off between posts. I’ve been busy with family life (children’s weddings, grandchildren birthday parties, etc.). You know those people in my life I

OPS-9 A common response by the “Global Warming” crowd is that 97% of scientists have endorsed the consensus that the “Global Warming” over the last century and a half is

OPS-8 The attached simple model (but by no means a definitive model) shows how easy it is to model modern temperatures without incorporating any CO2 forcing. This model uses only

OPS-7 The “Global Warming” alarmists tell us that Climate Change is simple. More CO2 will increase the global temperature (and without proof (computer models aren’t proof) they say it will

OPS-6 Another way to look at the surface temperature data over the last century and a half. Refer back to OPS-5. And “YES” the surface temperature data is manipulated. And

OPS-5 Here’s a quick look at a few of the available Temperature data sets that cover the last century and a half. Obviously the science is not settled. There isn’t

OPS-4 A quick look at the temperature rises over the last 150 years in comparison to the temperature changes that have occurred over the Holocene Interglacial warm period that we’re

OPS-3 These are some of the top lies, misrepresentations or ignorance of the facts that commonly appearin the “Climate Change” Discussion. The data is readily available (links below). 1. https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/

OPS-2 Another Repost. One small correction since the last time the image was posted. Differentials have narrowed but they’re still significant and the problems (access to tidewater and over-regulation) have

OPS-1 Original Post – Food for thought.I’ve already posted this image before. I’m reposting to begin the OPS sequence in order.

OPS-0 Climate Change is an extremely important issue. But CO2 and Global Warming are not actually the problem. The following image (a general discussion) is the first of many that