{"id":362000,"date":"2025-01-14T08:44:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T07:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=362000"},"modified":"2025-01-14T08:44:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T07:44:53","slug":"paper-showing-earths-atmosphere-has-become-saturated-with-carbon-dioxide-and-more-carbon-emissions-wont-make-any-difference-is-retracted-following-positive-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=362000","title":{"rendered":"Paper Showing Earth\u2019s Atmosphere Has Become \u2018Saturated\u2019 With Carbon Dioxide and More Carbon Emissions Won\u2019t Make Any Difference Is Retracted Following Positive Coverage in the Daily Sceptic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Chris Morrison<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Another important paper taking issue with the \u2018settled\u2019 climate narrative has been cancelled<\/a> following a report in the Daily Sceptic<\/em> and subsequent reposts that went viral across social media. The paper discussed the atmospheric \u2018saturation\u2019 of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and argued that higher levels will not cause temperatures to rise. The work was led by the widely-published<\/a> Polish scientist Dr. Jan Kubicki and appeared on Elsevier\u2019s ScienceDirect<\/em> website in December 2023. The paper has been widely discussed on social media since April 2024 when the Daily Sceptic<\/em> reported on the findings. Interest is growing in the saturation hypothesis not least because it provides a coherent explanation for why life and the biosphere grew and often thrived for 600 million years despite much higher atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases. Alas for control freaks, it also destroys the science backing for the Net Zero fantasy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many scientists contend that above certain levels<\/a> the ability of CO2<\/sub> to warm within narrow bands of the infrared spectrum falls off a logarithmic cliff. Recently, eight Taiwanese scientists led by Professor Peng-Sheng Wei found that the sensitivity of the climate to a rise in CO2 <\/sub>atmospheric levels from 100 to 400 parts per million (ppm) was \u201cnegligibly small\u201d at 0.3\u00b0C. Current levels of CO2<\/sub> are around 420 ppm. Seven Austrian scientists recently concluded that a future doubling of CO2<\/sub> showed \u201cno increase in the IR [infrared] absorption for the 15 u-central peak\u201d. At most, it was stated, this could lead to warming of 0.5\u00b0C. Yet in spite of this, Elsevier decided to retract Kubicki\u2019s paper with only a few words of explanation, a decision that is likely to send shock waves through any group of scientists seeking to examine the role of saturation of gases in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The retraction reads: \u201cSubsequent to acceptance of this paper, the rigour and quality of the peer-review process for this paper was investigated and confirmed to fall beneath the high standards expected by Applications in Engineering Science<\/em>. After review by additional expert referees, the Editor-in-Chief has lost confidence in the validity of the paper and has decided to retract.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Retraction in a scientific journal is a serious matter, relatively rare and potentially damaging to the reputation of authors. According to Elsevier\u2019s\u00a0withdrawal policies<\/a>, articles may be retracted \u201cto correct errors that impact the findings reported by an article where they are too extensive in the view of the editors to publish a correction, or due to infringements of Elsevier\u2019s journal policies, such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like\u201d. None of these reasons for withdrawing the Kubicki paper have been given. Instead, there is the pompous reference to a\u201d fall beneath the high standards expected\u201d, supposedly confirmed by additional unnamed \u201cexperts\u201d. Further details about the retraction may emerge given the important issues raised by Elsevier\u2019s action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever the real reasons behind this retraction, it will not be the first science paper that has met this fate following publicity in the Daily Sceptic<\/em> and subsequent widespread interest on social media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January 2022, a group of physics scientists led by Profession Gianluca Alimonti of Milan University published a paper in a Springer Nature <\/em>journal that considered past weather trends. They concluded that the idea we\u2019re in the throes of a \u2018climate emergency\u2019 was not supported by the facts. The paper attracted little attention outside academic circles until September 14th<\/sup> when the Daily Sceptic<\/em> reported on it \u2013 and our promotion of the story on X resulted in 9,000 retweets. The story was covered by the Australian<\/em> and Sky News Australia,<\/em> after which attacks were launched by activist scientists and journalists such as Michael \u2018Hockey Stick\u2019 Mann and Graham Readfearn of the Guardian<\/em>. After a year of lobbying, Springer Nature <\/em>retracted the paper<\/a> claiming it no longer had confidence in the results and conclusions. This surprised many, not least because much of the data came from the International Panel on Climate Change. Science writer Dr. Roger Pielke published a number of leaked emails surrounding the affair and concluded: \u201cShenanigans continue in climate science, with influential scientists teaming up with journalists to corrupt peer review.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September 2023, a departing academic, Dr. Patrick Brown, came clean<\/a> about a paper he\u2019d written in Nature<\/em> saying that climate change was increasing the risk of wildfires in California. \u201cI knew not to try to quantify key aspects other than climate change in my research because it would dilute the story that prestigious journals like Nature <\/em>and its rival Science<\/em>, want to tell,\u201d he explained. These key aspects, of course, include considering the role of arsonists and forest management. For its part, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can find little or no evidence of human-caused climate change affecting \u2018fire weather\u2019 to date and going forward to 2100. In Brown\u2019s view, climate science has become less about understanding the complexities of the world \u201cand more about serving as a kind of Cassandra, urgently warning the public about the dangers of climate change\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Editor-in-Chief of Nature<\/em> Magdalena Skipper reacted furiously to Brown\u2019s comments, accusing him of \u201cpoor research practices\u201d that are \u201chighly irresponsible<\/a>\u201d, according to the Daily Mail<\/em>. Despite all the controversy, Brown\u2019s paper<\/a> has not been retracted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Matthew Wielicki had a senior position in the Geological Sciences department of the University of Alabama. His parents were academics, and he grew up on a Californian university campus surrounded by freely exchanged competing ideas. He only ever wanted to be an academic, but he gave it up during Covid, seemingly disgusted at the turn against free speech in American universities and the effect it has had on climate science. If you speak out against the accepted narrative \u201cyou are a\u00a0pariah in this community<\/a>\u201d, he said. Climate change is a \u201ctaboo\u201d subject in academia and there is a \u201cdisconnect between what the science says and what the narrative in mainstream media is\u201d. It isn\u2019t about finding the truth in open discussion \u2013 It\u2019s about silencing those who disagree with you, he observed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is the<\/em> Environment Editor of the <\/em>Daily Sceptic.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another important paper taking issue with the \u2018settled\u2019 climate narrative\u00a0has been cancelled\u00a0following a report in the\u00a0Daily Sceptic\u00a0and subsequent reposts that went viral across social media. The paper discussed the atmospheric \u2018saturation\u2019 of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and argued that higher levels will not cause temperatures to rise. The work was led by the\u00a0widely-published\u00a0Polish scientist Dr. Jan Kubicki and appeared on Elsevier\u2019s\u00a0ScienceDirect\u00a0website in December 2023. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":362005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691829997,691818951,691819134,691818056,691819696,691818154],"class_list":{"0":"post-362000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-carbon-dioxide-co","9":"tag-censorship","10":"tag-climate-alarmism","11":"tag-climate-change","12":"tag-climate-journalism","13":"tag-net-zero","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0greennewdeal.jpg?fit=1500%2C1000&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1waI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":299049,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=299049","url_meta":{"origin":362000,"position":0},"title":"Carbon Dioxide Causes Much Less Warming Than is Commonly Believed, New Paper Finds","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"30\/01\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Further holes have been blown in the \u2018settled\u2019 scientific view that humans are responsible for all or most of the changes in the climate by burning hydrocarbons. 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