The Co2-Greenhouse nonsense discredited yet again

There’s so much evidence piling up to utterly discredit the “CO2-Greenhouse” nonsense that you have to try very very hard to ignore it or be pretty desperate to hang onto it in the light of what we now know. Here is YET ANOTHER article calling the nonsense into question.

Sunlight and Clouds, Not CO2, Drive Earth’s Climate, New Study Finds

The two researchers concluded that the Earth has warmed because it’s absorbing more sunlight because of reduced global cloud cover.

by Joel Smalley

SOURCE (recommended)

Last week, Katie Spence of THE EPOCH TIMES wrote…

A new study by Ned Nikolov and Karl Zeller challenges the prevailing view that CO2 is driving climate change.
The researchers analyzed satellite data and concluded that Earth has warmed due to increased sunlight absorption caused by reduced global cloud cover, not increased CO2.
Nikolov argues that CO2 does not trap heat in the atmosphere as commonly believed, and that atmospheric composition has no effect on global temperature.
The study found that Earth’s albedo (the amount of sunlight reflected back to space) has decreased, leading to more solar radiation reaching the surface and causing warming.
Nikolov and Zeller’s work suggests that the Earth’s Energy Imbalance (EEI) is not caused by greenhouse gases trapping heat, but by adiabatic processes in the atmosphere.
The researchers call for more interdisciplinary research into the mechanisms controlling Earth’s albedo and cloud physics, which they believe are the real drivers of climate change.
Their findings contradict the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and NASA’s stance on the causes of global warming.
The article notes that this research challenges current climate change policies focused on reducing CO2 emissions.
The researchers acknowledge that while they have hypotheses about what’s driving cloud cover changes, they don’t have a conclusive theory or predictive model yet.

Figure 1. Monthly radiative anomalies derived from the CERES EBAF 4.2 dataset: (a) Earth’s global albedo calculated via dividing the reflected all-sky shortwave anomaly by the globally averaged incident solar flux at the TOA (i.e., the global insolation) and multiplying the resulting fraction by 100 to convert to a percentage; (b) Earth’s absorbed solar flux calculated via multiplying the CERES reflected all-sky shortwave anomaly by −1 based on the fact that radiation absorption is opposite (and complementary) to reflection. (Courtesy of Ned Nikolov)

Figure 7. Comparison between observed GSAT anomalies and CERES-reported changes in the Earth’s absorbed solar flux. The two data series, representing 13-month running means, are highly correlated with the absorbed SW flux, explaining 78% of the GSAT variation (R2 = 0.78). Also, GSAT lags the absorbed shortwave radiation between zero and nine months, which indicates that GSAT is controlled by changes in sunlight absorption. (Courtesy of Ned Nikolov)

Less clouds means more solar radiation absorption, leading to higher surface temperatures…

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