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Does the ratio of ¹⁴C in the atmosphere show that fossil fuels are not the dominant cause of global warming?
I stumbled upon the following paper
Skrable et al. (2022)
The specific activity of ¹⁴C in the atmosphere gets reduced by a dilution effect when fossil CO₂, which is devoid of ¹⁴C, enters the atmosphere. We have used the results of this effect to…
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Does clean air transmit significantly more UV?
The following claim on a German weather forecasting site caught my eye:
Der Himmel ist wieder einmal blitzblank geputzt, die Sonne scheint von früh bis spät, die Luft ist angenehm warm – da sollten die Alarmglocken schrillen: Sonnenbrandgefahr! Was…
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Is the EPA's regulation of particulate matter justified with evidence?
The US Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has restrictions on "Particulate Matter".
A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed piece article claims it is based on a
scientifically unsupported notion that the fine particles of soot emitted by…
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Could global warming lead to an oxygen shortage by 2100?
In this report of a mathematical model (original paper here) about the response of ocean plankton to climate change, its author claims the following:
By 2100, the earth at sea level could have atmospheric oxygen levels comparable to the top of…
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Was 38.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere in 2011?
A December 2012 CNN article reported
Last year, all the world's nations combined pumped nearly 38.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the air from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil, according to new international calculations on…
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Is drinking collected rain water proven to be beneficial for your health?
Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then precipitated—that is, become heavy enough to fall under gravity.
After reading the article Drinking Rain Water, I was wondering about its…
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Claim that CO2 is less relevant because it is logarithmic
This video presents and claims that doubling the CO2 levels would only increase the global warming by 1%, whatever that means. Now it seems like the graph contains real data, so what is up with the claim? My only guess would be that the heating…
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