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A new look at current climate science and carbon dioxide, Lightfoot H. D. Full paper, unpublished as of September 2019. File: A new look at current climate science and carbon dioxide September 12 2019.PDF


This paper shows how to use available science in the form of the gas laws, AccuWeather on a smartphone, a psychrometric program, the response of CO2 and water vapor to temperature changes and back radiation to prove CO2 has little, if any, effect on atmospheric temperature. It proves the sun controls the Earth's many climates and has always done so.


To help the reader, four additional documents support the full paper:


a. Two page summary of the full paper. Gives a good overview of the full paper - File: A new look at current climate science Two page summary Sept 14 2019.PDF
b. Covering letter: Explains the origin of the concept that CO2 warms the atmosphere and this warming is amplified by water vapor. It also describes some of the harm done by the concept and indicates a new look at it is necessary. File: A new look Covering letter Sept 22 2019.PDF
c. Replace Quito with Taoudenni in the Sahara Desert: Widens the range of temperature and relative humidity File: A new look to replace Quito with Taoudenni Sept 16 2019.PDF

d. Handout for a PowerPoint presentation. It has the slides and the words that go with them. File: A new look at climate science_Handout of PowerPoint presentation Sept 12 2019.PDF

Does a math problem in IPCC report climate change 2007: The physical science basis (AR4) compromise the science? Lightfoot H.D. and Mamer O.A. Forest Res Eng Int J. 2018;2(4):231. DOI: 10.15406/freij.2018.02.00054, 231

Carbon dioxide: sometimes it is a cooling gas, sometimes a warming gas, Lightfoot H.D. and Mamer O.A. Forest Res Eng Int J. 2018;2(3):170-175. DOI: 10.15406/freij.2018.02.00043

Back radiation versus CO2 as the cause of climate change, Lightfoot H.D. and Mamer O.A. Energy and Environment, 2017. Sage publishing, DOI: 10.1177/0958305X17722790

The physical limits to economic growth and R&D funded innovation. Beaudreau B. C., and Lightfoot H.D. Energy Volume 84, 1 May 2015, Pages 45-52, Elsevier Ltd, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016

Calculation of Atmospheric Radiative Forcing (Warming Effect) of Carbon Dioxide at any Concentration, Lightfoot, H.D. and Mamer O.A. Energy and Environment, Volume 25 No. 8, 2014. MULTI-SCIENCE PUBLISHING CO. LTD. 26 Eldon Way, Hockley, Essex SS5 4AD, United Kingdom

What engineers and scientists should know about scales for measuring primary energy: why they are necessary and how to use them. Lightfoot, H.D., (2009) 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference. May 12-15, 2009, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

A method for constructing scenarios of future world energy demand. Lightfoot, H.D. (2009). 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference May 12-15, 2009, Hamilton, Ontario.

Required improvements to primary energy in the IPCC scenarios
. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Energy, 2008, 161, No. 3, 127-132, doi: 10.1680/ener.2008.161.3.127.

Chapter 9: The Potential for Increasing the Contribution of Renewable Energies towards Replacing Fossil Fuels is too Small to Justify the Expenditure of Government Research Funds. Lightfoot, H.D. (2008) In: Climate Change Research Progress, Editor: Lawrence N. Peretz, pp. 291-312. ISBN: 978-1-60021-998-6. © 2008 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Understand the three scales for measuring primary energy and avoid errors, Energy (2006), doi:10.1016/j.energy.2006.10.009.

Nuclear fission fuel can be considered as inexhaustible. Canadian Nuclear Society Bulletin, June 2006, Vol. 27, No. 2.

A Strategy for Adequate Future World Energy Supply and Carbon Emission Control, Engineering Institute of Canada, Climate Change Technology Conference: Engineering Challenges and Solutions in the 21st Century, Ottawa, Canada, May 10-12, 2006, Lightfoot H D. doi: 10.1109/EICCCC.2006.277266 Available at: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/guesthome.jsp

Nuclear Fission Fuel is Inexhaustible, Engineering Institute of Canada, Climate Change Technology Conference: Engineering Challenges and Solutions in the 21st Century, Ottawa, Canada, May 10-12, 2006, Lightfoot, H D, Manheimer W, Meneley D A, Pendergast D, Stanford G. doi: 10.1109/EICCCC.2006.277268 Available at: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/guesthome.jsp

Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy for a Greenhouse Planet. Science, 1 November 2002, Volume 298, pp. 981-987. Martin I. Hoffert, Ken Caldeira, Gregory Benford, David R. Criswell, Christopher Green, Howard Herzog, Atul K. Jain, Haroon S. Kheshgi, Klaus S. Lackner, John S. Lewis, H. Douglas Lightfoot, Wallace Manheimer, John C. Mankins, Michael E. Mauel, l. John Perkins, Michael E. Schlesinger, Tyler Volk, Tom M. L. Wigley

New Sources of Energy are Needed to Halt Global Warming, Policy Options, May 1998, 16-19, Lightfoot H D, Green C.

Muka in use as an animal feed, Pulp and Paper Canada, Vol. 81. No. 9/September 1980, 116-120.

A Portable Monorail System for Wood Transportation, Forest Management Institute, Canadian Forestry Service, Department of the Environment, Ottawa, Ontario, Information Report FMR-X-73, February 1975.

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Reports for the McGill University Centre for Climate and Global Change Research (C2GCR) – now the Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3)

No. 2002-9 Lightfoot H D, Green C, Observations on the IPCC Working Group III scenarios in the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, November 2002.

No. 2002-5 Lightfoot H D, Green C, An assessment of IPCC Working Group III findings in Climate Change 2001: Mitigation of the potential contribution of renewable energies to atmospheric carbon dioxide stabilization., November 2002.

No. 2001-7 Lightfoot H D, Green C, Energy Intensity decline implications for stabilization of atmospheric CO2 content, October 2001.

No. 2001-1 Lightfoot H D, Green C, Climate change is an energy problem, March 2001

No. 92-6 Lightfoot H D, Green C, The dominance of fossil fuels: technical and resource limitations to alternative energy sources, May 1992.


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Domtar Research Centre Reports

Between 1971 and 1989, wrote 21 research reports as sole author plus 18 with co-authors.

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Domtar Patents

Partition System, CAN 990,040 June 1, 1976. Partition System U.S. 3,393,670 October 5, 1976.

Linear Corrugating Roll Deflection Control CAN 1076401 April 29, 1980. U.S. 4,179,253 December 18, 1979.







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