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Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Abstract The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea the authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier 1824, Tyndall 1861 and Arrhenius 1896, but which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism by which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system. According to the second law of thermodynamics such a planetary machine can never exist. Nevertheless, in almost all texts of global climatology and in widespread secondary literature it is taken for...

  Do Changes in the Sun's Brightness Affect Earth's Climate? Reference Pang, K.D. and Yau, K.K.  2002.  Ancient observations link changes in sun's brightness and earth's clilmate.  EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 83: 481, 489-490. What was doneThe authors assembled and analyzed a vast amount of data pertaining to phenomena that have been reliably linked to variations in solar activity, including frequencies of sunspot and aurora sightings, the abundance of carbon-14 in the rings of long-lived trees, and the amount of beryllium-10 in the annual ice layers of polar ice cores.  In the case of sunspot sightings, the authors...