Introduction
December, 2023: Number of peer-reviewed papers listed on this site: 207
Note: the papers are in groups listed under “Climate papers” in the menu drop-down above.
I’m glad you’re interested in science. However, I don’t think peer review is the signal of scientific rigor you think it is. Simple statistical analysis shows that the majority of peer-reviewed findings are false or meaningless, and the press will take any paper and blow it up into a headline. But people often ask me for peer-reviewed papers refuting the standard dogma of climate alarm, and there are many. Keep in mind that all atmospheric data before 1980 is suspect, and all ocean measurements before 2005 are worthless.
When I ask people who are sure that humans are having an alarming impact on the earth’s climate, I ask them to name one single paper that convinced them. So far, I have never gotten a paper. (Actually, I finally got one - it was based on models, not real-world data.)
No one reads papers, but I do. Some of them I don’t think are worth sharing, but a few are, and I present them here. I’ll write summaries, because I know people won’t click through. If you are convinced humans are causing climate change, you might want to understand the science a bit more; these summaries are designed to help you do that.
For starters, in 2009, a group called Popular Technology assembled a database of over 1350 peer-reviewed papers contrary to the anthropogenic global catastrophe narrative. There are others. I’ve done my own research and have chosen the papers here for their relevance and recency. Use the submenus to navigate by topic.
Special mention
I want to point out the papers by Happer and Wijngaarden, because they have done the most to counter the scare with science. Please see the summary of their papers and learn what they have learned about CO2 and methane.
Also see Will Happer and Roger Cohen’s paper on ocean pH. They are technical, but they are important. Please at least read the summaries, so you understand that human-emitted CO2 and methane do not pose much of a threat to our climate.
Also, the Special report: Sea Level and Climate Change by Judith Curry. Not peer reviewed but should be. Worth reading.
Also, see The effects of solar variability on the Earth’s climate, by Joannah Haigh, Imperial College of Science, 1996. An influential letter.
Last, but probably most important: Javier Vinos’s book.