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Another non-existent scientist contributes non-existent arguments to the non-existent debate

Cargo ships stuck in "early" Arctic sea ice off the Russian coast, November 2021

Yet another authoritative climate scientist has tried once again to point out the profoundly flawed basis of anthropogenic global warming theory (AGW), aka apocalyptic climate change.

William Kininmonth headed Australia's National Climate Centre from 1986 to 1998. He was Australia's delegate to the WMO Commission for Climatology, a member of Australia’s delegations to the Second World Climate Conference in 1990 and a member of the subsequent intergovernmental negotiations for the Framework Convention on Climate Change. His book Climate Change, a Natural Hazard was published in 2004. He has long argued that that natural processes have caused the climate to change and that human influences are unlikely to dominate these processes.

His new paper develops this argument further. Arguing that the planet warms fastest in winter and in high latitudes near the poles, he says this is mostly due to increased heat transport from the tropical oceans.

AGW proponents claim that the oceans have themselves warmed through the climate heating up as the result of rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. According to Kininmonth, the recent warming of the tropical oceans can’t be explained in this way because the greenhouse effect due to carbon dioxide is small in the humid tropical atmosphere. The most probable explanation, he says, is natural changes in ocean currents. 

On the claims made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), he comments: 

The IPCC’s radiation balance approach is very simplistic, ignoring the fact that nowhere on the Earth’s surface is in radiation balance. Mainstream climate science may have led us all up a blind alley.

In his paper, he writes: