The Curious Case of Dr. Miskolczi

Originally posted on Science Matters:
Update May 18 below The Curious Case of Benjamin Button relates the story of a fictional character who is estranged from the rest of humanity because of a unique personal quality. He alone was born an old man, grew younger as he aged, before dying as an infant. Living in…

Ferenc Miskolczi: The Greenhouse Effect and the Infrared Radiative Structure of the Earth’s Atmosphere

Well here’s a nice surprise. Out of the blue, Dr Ferenc Miskolczi has dropped a link onto Tim Channon’s thread, which goes to his major new paper, published by the SEI. So we are privileged to be among the first to read it and start a discussion. It challenges the entire basis of the IPCC AGW theory […]

Reiterating the theory of Ferenc Miskolczi

Several Talkshop commenters have asked for more information on Ferenc Miskolczi’s theory about atmospheric law. The information is already on the Talkshop but explicitly bringing it out does no harm. The information is widely available. There are two presentations which may be useful, a general one which touches on the theory and then an attempt […]

Ferenc Miskolczi: Short Interview and letter to EPA

Here is a short interview with Ferenc Miskolczi conducted by the Examiner.com’s Kirk Myers. Kirk left this link on an article I posted here at the Talkshop at the start of 2010. It is followed by a copy of the letter Ference sent to the EPA during their ‘endangerment’ hearings. The black line is the […]

Roy Spencer on Miskolczi greenhouse theory

I have been waiting for someone to properly critique Ferenc Miskolczi’s papers on the greenhouse effect. Who better than Dr Roy Spencer? I hope Ferenc Miskolczi will respond. Executive Summary Using both radiative transfer theory and radiosonde (weather balloon) observations to support his views, Miskolczi (2010) builds a case that the Earth’s total greenhouse effect […]

Wayne Jackson: Atmospheric mass not composition is the key to the greenhouse effect

Following the marathon thread about Willis Eschenbah’s ‘steel greenhouse’ concept, Wayne takes the discussion of real planets and the way their energy balance points are considered in a new and promising direction. Earth TSI, 1362 W/m² / 4 = 340.5 * (1-0.3022 Bond albedo) = 237.6 OLR & also solar input Venus TSI 2614 W/m² / 4 […]

Ken Gregory: Water Vapor Decline Cools the Earth – NASA Satellite Data

My thanks to Clive Best for offering this analysis from Ken Gregory as a repost here at the talkshop. There’s already an active discussion of it on WUWT, but we’ll run it anyway, as its importance is high. Water Vapor Decline Cools the Earth – NASA Satellite Data Original article at http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?id=483 An analysis of […]

Wayne Jackson: New Identity Linking Meteorological Phenomena

Err, wow…. I think. Wayne Jackson has been mostly absent  over the last six months but obviously not idle. Now he has dropped in on an old thread of Stephen Wilde’s and left this remarkable comment: Sorry it has taken me six months to reply to this thread Stephen but it has taken a LOT of […]

Two more theories relevant to the Unified Theory of Climate by Nikolov and Zeller

While we await the reply to comments on the Unified Theory of Climate (not long now!), I’d like to draw attention to more complimentary work done independently by William Gilbert and Dean Brooks. In no particular order these are:- Bill Gilbert’s paper (E&E 2010) THE THERMODYNAMIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND WATER VAPOR CONCENTRATION IN […]

What caused global warming in the late C20th?

We can see that the decadal regression from the trough of the La Nina following the 1998 super El Nino to the peak of the 2010 El nino is negative in southern hemisphere sea surface temperature. Eyballing the data, you would have thought that it would be a positive warming slope. It isn’t. I’m sure […]

Hall of fame

Dayton Miller performed thousands of tests with his interferometer equipment to quantify the ether drift on Earth’s surface. His prediction of the ether drift in free space was confirmed by the determination much later of the velocity of the sun through space. It was further confirmed by Yu. M. Galaev in 2002. His tireless work […]

Why the sun is so important to climate

Why do we spend our time working on obscure stuff about the way the planets and sun bob about in space?

Because it’s changes in solar output which are the primary driver of climate change on Earth.

This letter from Dr Miklos Zagoni in Budapest (one of my favourite cities) gives a clue as to what is now afoot: