- Chuck Wiese, Meteorologist - I often get asked by climate hysterics that if the increase in atmospheric CO2 isn’t responsible for the global warming of the last forty years of record in the satellite data, then what could have caused it?
While that appears true as best we can determine from solar records to date, what is not ever discussed is whether or not there is a change in the available solar radiation that reaches the ground or Earth’s surface over time.
The best measure of this is to determine the changes in Earth albedo, which is the reflectance of solar radiation due to clouds and aerosols in the environment that reflect this energy from the sun back to space. So let’s have a look at the at the records:
Figure 1 shows the measured albedo from 1984 to 1997. Figure 2 shows the measured albedo from 2000 to 2023....
The best measure of this is to determine the changes in Earth albedo, which is the reflectance of solar radiation due to clouds and aerosols in the environment that reflect this energy from the sun back to space. So let’s have a look at the at the records:
Figure 1 shows the measured albedo from 1984 to 1997. Figure 2 shows the measured albedo from 2000 to 2023....
